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1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH & CONSUMER PROTECTION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Directorate F - Food and Veterinary Office DG(SANCO)/610058/2003 Food & Veterinary Office Programme of Inspections 2003 July - December

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. BALANCE OF INSPECTIONS ON FOOD SAFETY, ANIMAL HEALTH, ANIMAL WELFARE AND PLANT HEALTH 4 3. BALANCE BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES 4 4. INSPECTIONS TO MEMBER STATES 5 5. INSPECTIONS TO APPLICANT COUNTRIES 6 6. INSPECTIONS TO OTHER THIRD COUNTRIES 8 ANNEX 1: FVO Inspections Programme July to December 2003: Member States 10 ANNEX 2: FVO Inspections Programme July to December 2003: Applicant Countries 12 ANNEX 3: FVO Inspections Programme July to December 2003: Third Countries 13 2

3 1. INTRODUCTION This paper updates the FVO s inspection plan for 2003 (Document number DG(SANCO)610219/2002) and presents a detailed inspection programme for July to December In carrying out its inspection plan for 2003, the FVO will give particular emphasis to inspections in applicant countries. There is always a degree of uncertainty attached to any FVO inspection plan. Of necessity, it must remain flexible to enable it to respond to emergencies and unforeseen circumstances. As in previous years, adjustments to the plan will be required as the year progresses. Inspections in response to emergencies can only be made by cancelling or postponing planned missions. 3

4 2. BALANCE OF INSPECTIONS ON FOOD SAFETY, ANIMAL HEALTH, ANIMAL WELFARE AND PLANT HEALTH A total of 130 inspections is planned for the second half of Inspections in the food safety area make up around three quarters of the programme. Following the farm to fork approach outlined in the White Paper on Food Safety, a large number of food safety inspections also cover animal health and welfare elements. TABLE 1: BREAKDOWN OF INSPECTIONS BY MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY SECOND SEMESTER 2003 Area Total inspections Food Safety and Animal Health Animal Welfare 6 5 Plant Health 8 6 Total % 3. BALANCE BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES A breakdown of inspections between Member States and third countries during the second semester of 2003 is given in Table 2. 44% of inspections will be carried out in Member States. Inspections in candidate countries and other third countries will amount to 25% and 31%, respectively. TABLE 2: GEOGRAPHICAL BREAKDOWN OF INSPECTIONS BY REGION SECOND SEMESTER ) Country Inspections No. % EU Candidate Countries Other Third Countries Total ) It should be noted that the FVO is not in a position, due to other priorities and resource constraints, to carry out the level of checks specified in certain EU legislation, for example, annual Border Inspection Post (BIP) inspections and annual inspection of all approved third country establishments. The management of risks in these areas has had to take into account, as in previous years, the need to address other risks of equal or greater importance. 4

5 4. INSPECTIONS TO MEMBER STATES As referred to earlier, 44% of the inspections in the second semester of 2003 will be in Member States. An overview of these inspections categorised by product/sector is given in Table 3 below. A full list of inspections planned for July to December 2003, categorised by Member State and subject, is shown in Annex 1. TABLE 3: OVERVIEW OF INSPECTIONS TO MEMBER STATES SECOND SEMESTER 2003 Area Food Safety * Mission subject Member States to be inspected B, UK, E, P, D, FIN, F, A, LUX, EL No. of insp./r eports BSE I 1 Residues (in animals/animal products) Pesticide residues/marketing and use of plant protection products 10 IRL, P 2 A, P, IRL 3 Traceability B, D, I, E 4 Food hygiene Fresh Meat Import controls (food of plant origin: irradiation, contaminants, pesticides)* GMOs (genetically modified organisms) labelling of GMO food Food contact materials, food additives, flavourings EL, D, F, FIN, E, EL 5 1 EL, A 2 I 1 To be defined after compilation of results of questionnaire Animal Health/ Food Safety OIE List A Disease contingency plans - Mammals - Poultry B, P, IRL, E, EL, UK, LUX, NL, S B, NL 11 Eradication/control programmes - Bluetongue - Tuberculosis I EL, P, UK (NI) Disease outbreak: Avian Influenza I 1 4 Animal Welfare Welfare during transport; Welfare during slaughter/killing EL, NL, UK, S, FIN, E 6 Plant Health Plant pest outbreak: Diabrotica F 1 Import controls (plant health)* I, UK, D, NL, E 5 * Inspections with an asterisk are part of a series and will be completed by the end of

6 5. INSPECTIONS TO APPLICANT COUNTRIES Inspections to applicant countries are a top priority for the 2003 inspections programme and will account for roughly one third of FVO activities over the year. During 2002 a series of monitoring inspections was carried out in the following five broad areas: 1: Live animals and food of animal origin (in particular upgrading of establishments in the red meat sector) 2: Import controls/border Inspection Posts 3: TSEs and feedingstuffs (with particular emphasis on TSE) 4: General food hygiene controls (including pesticide residues and contaminants) 5: Plant health controls (including marketing and use of pesticides). In the latter part of 2002 a series of high-level missions was carried out by the Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General in applicant countries. These missions addressed issues arising either from the 2002 FVO monitoring missions or from the negotiations. FVO inspections in 2003 have, in general, followed up on the 2002 series of FVO inspections, and the high-level missions. In the first semester, in addition to TSE/animal nutrition, missions particularly addressed the issues raised by the review of the upgrading of establishments and also gave emphasis to fish, milk and poultry sectors as well as to animal welfare, animal health and residue controls. In view of the large number of establishments in applicant countries and the limited resources available, the FVO s approach is to look at a certain number of establishments on the ground as a basis for assessing the competent authority s ability, through its control system, to implement the necessary control of such establishments. The series of follow-up inspections will be continued in the second half of The inspections will mainly focus on the upgrading of establishments including the control of establishments with transitional periods, residue and animal health controls as well as on import controls including the approval of border inspection posts. Further issues to be addressed are food hygiene (including pesticide residues and contaminants) and plant health controls. The results of the follow-up inspections will feed into the Comprehensive Monitoring Report which will be forwarded by the Commission to the Council in the autumn. Depending on the outcome of these inspections, related desk analyses of action plans and delivery of action plan commitments, further inspections may be included in the programme later this year. In parallel with the inspections carried out by the FVO, a set of complementary missions in the areas of establishment upgrading, animal welfare, zoonoses, feed and 6

7 HACCP 1 is being organised by the Directorate General for Enlargement through TAIEX as part of the Peer Review process. Table 4 gives an overview of the inspections in applicant countries planned for the second half of Table 4: OVERVIEW OF INSPECTIONS TO APPLICANT COUNTRIES - SECOND SEMESTER 2003 COUNTRY MONITORING Poland Live animals food of Animal origin *) 08-12/09 (AH/FS) 27-31/10 (FS) Import Controls/ BIPS 14-18/07/03 TSE & feedingstuffs Food hygiene Controls Plant health Controls Czech Republic Hungary 21-25/07 (AH/FS) 01-03/12/ /09 (AH/FS) 20-24/10/03 Estonia Slovenia Cyprus Latvia Lithuania Malta Slovak Republic Romania Bulgaria 30/06-04/07 (AH/FS) 29/09-03/10 (FS) 01-05/09 (AH/FS) [24-28/11] (FS live bivalve molluscs) 30/06-04/07 (AH/FS) 06-10/10 (FS) 30/06-04/07 (AH/FS) 08-12/09 (FS) 30/06-04/07 (AH/FS) 01-05/09 (FS) 17-21/11/ /11/ /10/ /09/03 November 29/09-03/10/ /09 (FS) 27-30/10/ /09 (AH/FS) 07-11/07 (RES) 06-10/10 (AH/FS) 06-10/10 (AH/FS) 08-12/12 milk Turkey**) products 15-19/09 poultry meat *) AH/FS Animal Health / Food Safety (including red meat) FS Food Safety (including poultry & fish) AW Animal Welfare RES Residues November 08-12/09 **) In addition to the monitoring programme carried out in applicant countries, specific export inspections with respect to poultry meat and milk/milk products sectors will take place in Turkey. 1 HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point 7

8 A full list of proposed inspections to applicant countries in July to December 2003 categorised by country and subject is also shown in Annex INSPECTIONS TO OTHER THIRD COUNTRIES Table 5 below gives an overview of the inspections in third countries in the period July to December Of the total of 40 planned inspections, around half will focus on fishery products and live bivalve molluscs, the other half on meat and meat products and the animal health situation, mainly with respect to third countries requests for approvals of exports to the EU. Further issues to be covered are followup to Rapid Alert Notifications as well as irradiation and organic farming. A full list of proposed inspections in July to December 2003 categorised by third country and subject is shown in Annex 3. 8

9 TABLE 5: OVERVIEW OF INSPECTIONS TO OTHER THIRD COUNTRIES SECOND SEMESTER 2003 Reason Proposed inspections No. Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo (Rep. du), Fiji, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, St. Helena, Togo, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome & Principe 17 Countries provisionally approved for exports of - (part II 1) of Annex to Dec 97/296/EC) - Live bivalve molluscs (part II 1) of Annex to Dec 97/20/EC) - Milk/milk products (Dec 97/252/EC) Countries requesting first approval for exports to the EU: - Ratite meat - Live bivalve molluscs - Beef/beef products - Horsemeat - Potatoes Countries requesting re-approval of exports Canada, USA, New Zealand USA 2) Uruguay India* Vanuatu* Mongolia*, Kazakhstan* Egypt - Poultry meat/ rabbit meat China 3) 1 BSE (GBR I countries) 4) High number of rapid alert notifications: - Residues/microbiological contamination in fish/animal products Botswana*, Namibia*, Swaziland* Chile*, Paraguay* Vietnam*, India*, China 3) * Evaluation of operation of HACCP systems in the meat and meat product sectors Evaluation of animal health situation with respect to: - Red meat exports USA 2) 1 South Africa, Swaziland Botswana, Namibia Chile Animal disease outbreak: Newcastle Disease Australia 1 Countries requesting approval of food irradiation facilities Switzerland 1 Organic Farming: countries requesting inclusion in equivalency list for export to New Zealand 1 the EU * inspection will be carried out only under certain conditions expiring on 31st December 2003 one inspection; one inspection 4) GBR I = geographical BSE risk assessment BSE highly unlikely 5 9

10 ANNEX 1 FVO Inspections Programme July December 2003 Member States AUSTRIA Pesticide residues/marketing & use of plant protection Products Import controls (food of plant origin: irradiation, Contaminants, pesticides) BELGIUM Traceability Animal disease contingency plans: IRELAND Residues (in animals/animal products) Pesticide residues/marketing & use of plant protection products Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals ITALY BSE Traceability GMOs/labelling of GMO food Eradication/control programmes: - Bluetongue Animal disease outbreak avian influenza - poultry Import controls (plant health) - mammals FINLAND Food hygiene Animal welfare during transport & slaughter/killing FRANCE Food hygiene Plant pest outbreak: diabrotica GERMANY Traceability LUXEMBOURG Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals NETHERLANDS Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals - poultry Animal welfare during transport and slaughter/killing Import controls (plant health) PORTUGAL Residues (in animals/animal products) Pesticide residues/marketing and use of plant protection products Food hygiene Import controls (plant health) GREECE Food hygiene Fresh meat Import controls (food of plant origin: irradiation, Contaminants, pesticides) Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals Eradication/control programmes: - tuberculosis Animal welfare during transport and slaughter/killing Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals Eradication/control programmes: - tuberculosis SPAIN Traceability Food hygiene Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals Animal welfare during transport and slaughter/killing Import controls (plant health) 10

11 ANNEX 1 FVO Inspections Programme July December 2003 Member States SWEDEN Animal welfare during transport and Animal welfare during transport and slaughter/killing Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals UNITED KINGDOM Animal disease contingency plans: - mammals Eradication/control programmes: - tuberculosis Animal welfare during transport and slaughter/killing Import controls (plant health) Import Controls (plant health) 11

12 ANNEX 2 FVO Inspections Programme July December 2003 Applicant Countries BULGARIA CYPRUS Food safety controls CZECH REPUBLIC ESTONIA Food safety controls HUNGARY LATVIA Food safety controls Food hygiene controls MALTA Food safety controls POLAND Food safety controls ROMANIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC Plant health controls Residue controls SLOVENIA Food safety live bivalve molluscs TURKEY Poultry meat/products/preparations Milk/milk products LITHUANIA Food safety controls Food hygiene controls 12

13 ANNEX 3 FVO Inspections Programme July December 2003 Third Countries CANADA Live bivalve molluscs NEW ZEALAND Live bivalve molluscs Organic farming EQUIVALENCY AGREEMENT COUNTRIES USA Live bivalve molluscs Milk/milk products; Meat & meat products (HACCP systems) OTHER THIRD COUNTRIES ANGOLA AUSTRALIA Animal disease outbreak: Newcastle disease BENIN BOTSWANA BSE* Animal health controls CAMEROON CHILE BSE* Animal health controls CHINA Poultry meat/rabbit meat; Residue controls (food of animal origin)* CONGO (Rep. du) EGYPT Potatoes (plant health system) FIJI GUINEA BISSAU INDIA Live bivalve molluscs* Residue controls (food of animal origin)* KAZAKHSTAN Horsemeat* MONGOLIA Horsemeat* MYANMAR NAMIBIA BSE* Animal health controls PARAGUAY BSE* SAMOA SAO TOME & PRINCIPE SAUDI ARABIA SOLOMON ISLANDS ST. HELENA SOUTH AFRICA Animal health controls 13

14 ANNEX 3 FVO Inspections Programme July December 2003 Third Countries SWAZILAND BSE* Animal health controls SWITZERLAND Food irradiation TOGO VANUATU Beef/beef products* VIETNAM Residue controls (food of animal origin)* ZIMBABWE URUGUAY Farmed game meat (ratite meat) * Mission will be carried out only under certain conditions 14