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The European Food Safety Agency (), which provides independent consultations and information about existing and possible risk related to food and food. The agency covers all the questions straight and indirect influence of food and roots and animal health and plants. The European Commission supports the European Parliament, the European Parliament and the member states in their efforts to take care of early and effective decisions about managing risks that need to protect health and interests of European consumers, security of food and basket. The agency works with the public on all the issues involved in its competence, open and transparent basis. The European Food Safety Agency is set up 2002. His headquarters is in Parma, Italy.

Jobs

According to the Treaty of 178 / 2002, the European Parliament and the Council from 28 January 2002, the agency has the following tasks:
Developer and give an interesting side of scientific conclusions about the safety of food and roots;
encouraging better methods to assess risks in areas related to the agency;
search and analysis of scientific technical data in any area that is directly or indirectly related to the security of food and roots;
provide for the European Commission-tech support to manage the crisis in the field of safety of food and basket;
giving public knowledge, reliable and objective information in areas related to his mission.

Structure

The agency consists of four organs:

Control Council: creates a budget which is approved by a annual working program. The Council is responsible for successful cooperation with the partners inside and outside the EU.
The Executive Director: is responsible for operating, cadaver questions and for developing applications after consultation with bodies and members of the EU; it is appointed by the Administrative Council for five years.
Consulting forum: helps the executive director. It includes representatives of state-of-office ministers who perform a task similar to the agency; the member-states Observers (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland) and Europe. It's not less than four times a year.
The scientific committee and scientific groups, each in their field, provide scientific conclusions and recommendations. It comes from highly skilled professionals. The scientific committee is coordinating with scientific work and prepares scientific conclusion if the question applies to more than one group or not. The scientific committee consists of a bunch of scientific groups and six independent experts who do not include scientific groups. The resolution of the scientific committee and scientific groups is adopted by most of the votes and are added to the opinion of the minority.

By the beginning of 2019 in the European Food Agency, nearly 450 people were involved.

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