Events, documents & useful links
Events, documents & useful links
Events
- 2019 (December) – Brussels: conference “Smarter rules for safer food and plant health”
- 2018 (March) - Edinburgh: First Conference of Food Standards Scotland on Fresh Thinking on Food
- 2017 (October) - Dublin: Safeguarding the Food Chain - Protecting Authenticity and Integrity
- 2017 (June) - Berlin: BVL/European Commission, JRC Congress on Food Fraud
- 2017 (May) - Parma: Food Integrity 2017 Conference
- 2017 (April) - Québec: Conference Food Fraud - Global Understanding
- 2014 (October) - Rome: Conference on Food Fraud "A Joint effort to ensure the safety and integrity of our food"
- 2012 (February) - Brussels: Conference Combating Food-related Crime
Documents
- Council conclusions on the next steps how to better tackle and deter fraudulent practices in the agrifood chain (16 December 2019)
- Council Conclusions on the role of law enforcement cooperation in combating food crime
- European Parliament's own initiative report on "the food crisis, fraud in the food chain and the control thereof"
- Council conclusions on setting the EU's priorities for the fight against serious and organised crime between 2014 and 2017
- In the wake of the horse meat scandal in February 2013, the Commission proposed a 5-point Action Plan, which included specific action directed at the issue at hand as well as longer term objectives.
- New training on new investigation/control techniques (fraud and internet sales) under the Better Training for Safer Food Initiative
Useful links
Research in the Food Fraud area
- The OLEUM project
- The EU-funded Food Integrity project