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20-Dec-01		Speeches Speaking Note of Commissioner Byrne on FMD, Agriculture Council of 19 December 2001 (66KB)
		European Food Authority Questions and Answers on the European Food Authority, 18 December 2001 (+/-80KB)
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCFICS - Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Certification and Inspection updated
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCMPH - Codex Committee on Meat and Poultry Hygiene updated
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCFAC - Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants updated
		Animal Health / Prevention and Control of Animal diseases Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Chronology of main events and list of decisions adopted by the Commission last updated on 19 December 2001 (489KB)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Ireland from 28 May to 01 June 2001 in order to evaluate the implementation of reinforced protection measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (3306/2001)
		Standing Committee on Plant Health Short report of the meeting held on 22-23 October 2001 (09/01) (41KB)
		Standing Committee on Plant Health Agenda : meeting of Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 November 2001 (11KB)
		Standing Committee on Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Seeds and Plants Short report of the meeting held on 14-15 November 2001 (41KB)
		Standing Committee on Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Seeds and Plants Short report of the Joint Meeting of the Standing Committees on "Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry" (CPS), "Propagating Material of ornamental Plants" (CPO), "Propagating material of plants of fruit"(CPF) held on 26-28 November 2001 (37KB)
		Scientific Committee on Plants Minutes of the Thirthieth meeting - Brussels, 8 November 2001 (50KB)
19-Dec-01		Animal Feed Safety The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General today publishes new pages on Animal Feed Safety
		Speeches Speaking Note of Commissioner Byrne on BSE, Agriculture Council of 19 December
		Press Release Foot-and-mouth disease in the UK - Classical swine fever in Spain, 19 December 2001 (12KB)
		Press Release New report recommends improved conditions in fur farms, 19 December 2001 (13KB)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in France from 11 June to 21 June 2001 concerning border inspection posts (3210/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report on a mission carried out in Bulgaria from 2 to 11 July 2001 for the purpose of assessing the conditions of production of fishery products (3335/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Ireland from 3 to 7 September 2001 in order to evaluate the situation with regard to controls over the feeding of swill to farm animals and waste food from prohibited sources (3359/2001)
18-Dec-01		Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare The Welfare of Animals kept for Fur Production - Report of the Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (adopted 12-13 December 2001) (861KB)
		Food and Veterinary Office Programme of Inspections 2002 (46KB)
17-Dec-01		Scientific Committee on Food Additional statement on the use of resistant short chain carbohydrates (oligofructosyl-saccharose and oligogalactosyl-lactose) in infant formulae and in follow-on formulae (expressed on 13 December 2001) (26KB)
		Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment Draft agenda of the 29th plenary meeting, 09 January 2002 (26KB)
		Scientific Steering Committee Draft agenda of the Meeting of 10-11 January 2002 (19KB)
14-Dec-01		Scientific Committees Agenda updated
		Standing Committee on Plant Health Short report of the meeting held on 27-28 November 2001 (10/01) (44KB)
13-Dec-01		Speeches Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "The European approach to control and prevent FMD", International Conference on Prevention and Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Brussels, 12 December 2001
		Press Release Questions and Answers on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), 12 December 2001
		Press Release European Food Safety Authority Prodi and Byrne welcome constructive EP position : Final agreement very close, 11 December 2001
		Press Release FMD: Press conference details on FMD conference in Brussels, 12-13 December, 11 December 2001
		Food Labelling Commission Directive 2001/101/EC of 26 November 2001 amending Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs (+/- 150KB)
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCFICS - Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Certification and Inspection updated
		Scientific Committee on Plants Draft agenda of the 31th plenary meeting, Brussels, 20 December 2001 (25KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition Commentary on toxin production data submitted by Intervet on Toyocerin® (45KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition Report on Toyocerin® (77KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition Revision of the SCAN Opinion on BioProtein® (48KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition Opinion on potassium- and sodium ferrocyanides (34KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition 139th SCAN meeting - 10-11 October 2001 (40KB)
		Standing Committee on Plant Health Agenda : meeting of Wednesday 19 December 2001
12-Dec-01		Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health Opinion on Trichinellosis, epidemiology, methods of detection and Trichinella - free pig production (adopted on 21-22 November 2001) (223KB)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in the United Kingdom from 20 to 24 August 2001 in order to evaluate the situation with regard to outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (3439/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Germany from 28/05/2001 to 01/06/2001 in order to evaluate the implementation of protective measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) (3302/2001)
10-Dec-01		Standing Committee on Foodstuffs Agenda of the 86th meeting - Brussels the 17th and 18th of December 2001 (20KB)
07-Dec-01		Press Release New case of Classical Swine Fever in Spain: Commission adopts export restrictions, 05 December 2001
		Press Release Questions and answers on Classical Swine Fever, 05 December 2001
		Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare Draft Agenda of the plenary meeting of 12 December 2001 (17KB)
		Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment Draft agenda of the 28th plenary meeting, 07 December 2001 (27KB)
		Scientific Committee on Food 130th Plenary meeting - Brussels, 12-13 December 2001 - Draft agenda (73KB)
06-Dec-01		Press Release BSE - Scientific Steering Committee publishes opinions about the origin of BSE and other BSE related issues, 05 December 2001
		Press Release Foot-and-mouth disease in the UK: Export of live pigs can restart, 05 December 2001 (67KB)
		Safety of Food Products List of Competent Authorities of the Member States for food irradiation facilities and food and food ingredients which may be treated with ionising radiation (150KB)
		Education Campaign on Food Safety List of national organisers and the European coordinator for the Food safety education campaign 2001-2002 (+/-120 KB)
		Scientific Committees Agenda updated
05-Dec-01		Animal Health / Prevention and Control of Animal diseases Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Chronology of main events and list of decisions adopted by the Commission last updated on 05 December 2001 (489KB)
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCMMP - Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products updated
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: CCFL - Codex Committee on Food Labelling updated
		International Food Safety Issues Codex Alimentarius: EXEC - Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission
		Food of non-animal origin inspections Final report of a mission carried out in France from 2 nd to 6 th July 2001 in order to evaluate the official foodstuffs control system and in particular the implementation of controls on food of non-animal origin in the retail sector (3225/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Rapport final dune mission effectuée en Republique Tchèque du 10 au 14 septembre 2001 concernant la situation en matière de santé animale et particulièrement de la peste porcine classique et le suivi de missions précédentes relatives à lévaluation des conditions de production et de mise sur le marché de viandes fraîches et de viandes de gibier exportées vers lUnion européenne (3378/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a follow-up mission carried out in Spain from 2 to 6 October 2000 concerning food production - Poultry meat (1198/2000)
04-Dec-01		Speeches Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "Opening Remarks", Round Table on Food Quality, Safety and Production, Copenhagen, 3 December 2001
		Press Release Round table on food and agriculture in Copenhagen: strategic re-thinking of food production in terms of quality, safety and costs, 03 December 2001
		Scientific Steering Committee Minutes of the Scientific Steering Committee Meeting of 18-19 October 2001 (231KB)
		Scientific Steering Committee Opinion on hypotheses on the origin and transmission of BSE (adopted on 29-30 november 2001) (633KB)
		Scientific Steering Committee Opinion on the six BARB BSE cases in the UK since 1 August 1996 (the six BARB BSE cases born and confirmed in the UK after 1 August 1996: Is there a need to review the opinions of the Scientific Steering Committee with regard to the UK date-based export scheme and other TSE-related risks?) (adopted on 29-30 november 2001) (227KB)
		Scientific Steering Committee Opinion on requirements for statistically authoritative BSE/TSE surveys ( adopted on 29-30 November 2001) (456KB)
		Scientific Steering Committee Updated opinion on sourcing of ruminant materials from GBR I countries for medical devices (originally adopted on 6-7 september 2001, update adopted on 29-30 november 2001) (110KB)
		Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare Summary record of the meeting of the Scientific sub-Committee on Animal Welfare held on 23 October 2001 in Brussels, adopted 26 November 2001 (33KB)
		Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health Summary record of the SCVPH Plenary Meeting of 19-20 September 2001 (approved on 21 November 2001) (66KB)
		Scientific Committee on Plants Opinion on an additional question from the Commission on the evaluation of IPROVALICARB [SZX 0722] in the context of Council Directive 91/414/EEC (opinion adopted by the SCP on 8 November 2001 ) (207KB)
03-Dec-01		Speeches Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, " Animal welfare: Higher standards show their merits", EuroGroup for Animal Welfare, Brussels, 30 November 2001
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Denmark from 23/04 to 27/04/2001 in order to evaluate the implementation of reinforced protection measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (3282/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in the United Kingdom (Great Britain) from 25 to 29 June 2001 in order to evaluate the implementation of certain protective measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) (3266/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Portugal from 14 to 18 May 2001 in order to evaluate the implementation of reinforced protection measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and the Date Based Export Scheme (DBES) (3284-2001)
		Contamination of food and feed materials inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Egypt from 2nd to 6th September 2001 to assess the facilities and measures in place for the determination of aflatoxin levels in peanuts intended for export into the European Union (3329/2001)
		Veterinary Inspections Final report of a mission carried out in Finland from 11 to 15 of June 2001 concerning the inspections of animal welfare standards on pig, calf and laying hen holdings (3312/2001)
		Standing Committee for Animal Nutrition Summary minutes of the meeting held on 20 November 2001 (90KB)
		Standing Committee for Animal Nutrition Summary minutes of the meeting held on 18 October 2001 (99KB)
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