Stakeholder Relations and Relations with Institutional partners

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Stakeholder Relations and Relations with
Institutional partners

• Christine Majewski
• Head of External Relations and the Management
  Board

Committed to the safety of Europes food
Bratislava, 28 June 2007
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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• Institutional
• Civil society

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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• Institutional Partners
• European Parliament, Council (Member States),
  Presidency, European Commission, ECOSOC, risk
  managers eg CVOs
• Stakeholders - Civil society
• Representatives of the food and feed chain
• Environmental NGOs,
• Animal welfare organisations

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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• Institutional
• Civil society

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Institutional partners
Role within the EU system

• EFSA part of the overall system of food and
  feed law in the EU
• Provides the scientific basis for legislation
  in these areas
• Integral part and accountable within the system
• Role - to provide risk managers with
  scientific excellent advice
• Work closely with risk managers to deliver this
  advice while maintaining our independence
• Responsive and timely
• Emerging risks

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EFSAs Relationships

• Member States - National Agencies

• Part of our Networks
• Scientific Cooperation and networking
• Members of the Advisory Forum
• MSs may ask EFSA to look at scientific
  questions
• Try and resolve scientific differences of
  opinion
• Linked by Videoconferencing
• Linked by IT Extranet

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EFSAs Relationships
Other Institutional activities Member States

• Council
• e.g Working groups on pesticides, COREPER
• Presidency
• Risk manager groups
• e.g. CVOs, CPHO

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EFSAs Relationships
European Parliament

• Strong presence in the EP
• ENVI, CoBu, CoCoBu, AGRI
• To inform EP about our scientific findings
• Advice on legislation which may have an
• impact on EFSA
• EP has asked us some scientific questions
• Major say in EFSAs budget

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EFSAs Relationships

• European Commission

• Independent but our main customer
• Provision of scientific opinions to the
  Commission
• to enable it to develop risk management measures
• Director General on MB of EFSA
• Close liaison
• - exchanges of staff,
• - regular meetings to review priorities
• Work together in a food or feed crisis

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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• Institutional
• Civil society

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EFSAs Stakeholder Relationships
Stakeholders (food chain, industry consumers,
distributors)

• EFSA Stakeholder Consultative Platform
• EFSA Consultations web or meetings
• EFSA Stakeholder Colloques
• EFSA scientific Colloques
• Regular Bi-laterals with key EU based
  stakeholder
• organisations CIAA, BEUC, Copa Cogeca, NGOs

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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• The Stakeholder Consultative Platform (SCP) made
  permanent in 2006
• Working Groups on Transparency in risk assessment
  and criteria for consulation
• Special technical meeting of SCP 11 June on
  Nutrition Guidance on claims
• An independent review of the functioning EFSAs
  policy so far towards Stakeholder
• Stakeholder strategy (to be developed in 2007)

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Stakeholder Relations and relations with
institutional partners

• New approach to sensitive issues to develop
  further a social dialogue without impinging on
  EFSAs scientific excellence or independence

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International partners
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
EFSA will communicate and exchange information
with et al

• OIE, WHO, FAO
• CODEX
• FSANZ - Food Standards Australia New Zealand
• USDA, FDA
• Japanese Food Safety Commission
• Chinese FDA