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2 Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on its behalf is responsible for any use that might be made of the following information. Online information about the European Union in 23 languages is available at: Further information on the Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General is available at: European Communities, 2009 Reproduction is authorised, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. 1

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS: page 1. Introduction 3 2. Number and distribution of audits and inspections 3 3. Audits and inspections in Member States 4 4. Inspections in EFTA Countries 7 5. Inspections in Candidate Countries and Western Balkans 7 6. Inspections in Third Countries 8 Annex 1: Inspections in Member States, by Country in alphabetical order 10 Annex 2: Inspections in EFTA Countries, by Country in alphabetical order 13 Annex 3: Inspections in Candidate Countries, by Country in alphabetical order 14 Annex 4: Inspections in Third Countries, by Country in alphabetical order 14 2

4 1. Introduction This document sets out the audit and inspection programme of DG Health and Consumers for 2009 with a detailed inspection programme for January to December. There is always a degree of uncertainty attached to any SANCO inspection plan. Of necessity, it must remain flexible to enable it to respond to emergencies, other urgent issues 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. Also, the carrying out of certain inspections will depend on the timely availability of resources. An update of the programme will therefore, as usual, be presented in June The programme is also published at the DG Health and Consumers website: 2. Number and distribution of audits and inspections As shown in table 1, a total of 255 audits and inspections are planned for the 2009 programme. This figure includes the specific audits which supplement the general audits planned in 9 Member States in 2009 (see Chapter 3. Audits and inspections in Member States). As usual, audits and inspections in the food safety area make up the main part of the programme (68%). However, in line with the "farm to fork" approach, a large number of food safety inspections naturally also cover animal health and welfare elements. 12 and 5% of inspections, respectively, will specifically focus on controls in the animal health and welfare areas, and 7% of inspections are targeted at phytosanitary controls. General reviews - inspections to develop and/or update country profiles and to review overall progress on follow-up to FVO report recommendations make up a further 8% of the planned audits and inspections. Table 1: Breakdown of audits and inspections 2009 by main areas: AREA No. of audits and inspections % Food safety Animal health Animal welfare 14 5 Plant health 17 7 General review 20 8 Total

5 Table 2 provides an overview on the geographical breakdown of audits and inspections in % of the audits and inspections will take place in the European Union. In EFTA countries, 4 inspections are planned, while 4% of inspections will take place in candidate countries, and 38% in other third countries. Taking into account that one sixth of the audits and inspections in the EU deal with Member States' import control systems, overall, controls with respect to third countries' export of feed, food, plants and animals amount to more than 50% of the programme. Table 2: Geographical breakdown of audits and inspections: COUNTRY No. of audits and inspections % EU EFTA countries 4 2 Candidate countries 11 4 Other third countries Total Audits and inspections in Member States As outlined above, the FVO will carry out nine general audits in the framework of the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulation 1 in 2009, namely in Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Following a pilot phase in 2007 and 6 general audits in 2008, 2009 will be the second year of the introduction of a 3-year audit cycle to all Member States. Following the integrative approach introduced by the Regulation, the main purpose of the general audits, in accordance with Article 45, is to verify that, overall, official controls take place in Member States in accordance with the multi-annual national control plans referred to in Article 41 of the Regulation and in compliance with Community law. The general audits will be supplemented by specific audits across all main control systems; the list for each of the 9 Member States is determined by combining the regular prioritisation process with a desk analysis of the multi-annual national control plans and additional information such as Member States' own audit reports. In the remaining 18 Member States, inspections will mainly focus on follow-up to issues identified in previous audits and inspections, and to prepare for the audits in Table 3 gives an overview on all inspections and specific audits planned in Member States: 1 Regulation (EC) No. 882/2204 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. 4

6 Table 3: Audits and inspections 2009 in Member States (Some of the subjects below are combined into one mission, as shown in Annex 1 which lists all specific audits and inspections categorised by Member State in alphabetical order.) AREA/SECTOR for animal health for food of animal origin for import of animals and food of animal origin for feeding stuffs and animal nutrition for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies /animal byproducts for veterinary medicines and residues for foodstuffs Eradication programmes and contingency plans Bovine semen/embryos Tuberculosis and/or Brucellosis eradication control programmes Intra-community trade in live equidae Foot-and-mouth disease labs Traceability of fresh bovine meat and bovine products Babyfood Meat/milk hygiene package Poultry meat/poultry meat products Poultry meat/poultry meat products/salmonella control programmes (broilers) Salmonella control programmes/table eggs Import / transit controls / Border Inspection Posts (BIPs) Feed safety Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Animal By-Products (ABPs) Organic fertilisers and the total feed ban Residues Genetically modified feed and food Food contact materials and use of food additives COUNTRY/REGION Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia Belgium Cyprus, Italy, Portugal Romania, Spain Germany, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom Belgium, Lithuania Belgium, Italy, Netherlands Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom Cyprus, Finland, Latvia Belgium, Portugal, United Kingdom Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom Belgium, Latvia Germany, Italy Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Kingdom Portugal, Romania Greece, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, United Kingdom 5

7 AREA/SECTOR and food hygiene for imports of food of plant origin for plant protection products for animal welfare for plant health Food hygiene/haccp Import controls (food and feed) Pesticides Farms, transport, slaughter Farms and slaughter Slaughter Transport Import controls Plant passports Potatoes Protected zones (Erwinia amylovora) General follow-up Outbreaks Rynchophorus ferrugineus Anoplophora glabripennis Anoplophora chinensis Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, Gibberella circinata, Toxoptera citricida COUNTRY/REGION Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia Belgium, Greece, Finland Belgium, Cyprus, Germany (Community Reference Laboratory), Greece, Portugal, United Kingdom Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, United Kingdom Bulgaria, Malta, Romania Spain France, Romania, Spain Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia Lithuania Greece Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia United Kingdom Greece Austria Netherlands Portugal GENERAL REVIEWS General review missions Pre general audit preparation Post general audit review Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sweden Austria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain 6

8 4. Inspections in EFTA Countries Inspections in EFTA countries will be done in the framework of the agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA agreement) and agreements between the European Union and Switzerland. The inspection to Iceland will be a joint mission between the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) and the FVO. Table 4: Inspections 2009 in EFTA Countries AREA/SECTOR for import of animals and food of animal origin Food of animal origin Feeding stuffs and animal nutrition Import/transit controls on products of animal origin and live animals Meat/milk Babyfood Feed additives and premixtures COUNTRY /REGION Iceland Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland 5. Inspections in Candidate Countries and Western Balkans The Food and Veterinary Office continues to evaluate the progress candidate countries are making in their preparations for accession will see inspections to Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on a wide scale of food safety and animal health issues. The FVO will also carry out general reviews to prepare country profiles for Turkey as well as for Albania, a Western Balkan country, and thus, potential candidate. Table 5: SANCO Inspection Programme 2009 in Candidate Countries AREA/SECTOR for animal health for food of animal origin for import of animals and food of animal origin for veterinary medicines and residues for feeding stuffs and animal nutrition Poultry animal health Upgrading of food processing establishments (meat, milk) Milk export sector Import/transit controls/border Inspection Posts (BIPs) Residues and contaminants Feed hygiene COUNTRY/REGI ON Turkey Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Croatia (subject to construction) Croatia Croatia 7

9 AREA/SECTOR for TSEs/ABPs for plant protection products Animal by-products Pesticides (export related inspection) COUNTRY/REGI ON Croatia Turkey GENERAL REVIEW MISSIONS "ENLARGEMENT" (Candidate countries and/or Western Balkan countries General review missions Albania, Turkey A list of audits and inspections, categorised by country in alphabetical order, is shown in Annex Inspections in Third Countries In third countries, the FVO needs to ensure that competent authorities correctly apply relevant EU standards or their equivalent with respect to animals, plants and products intended for export to the European Union. While the main part of these inspections is targeted at a review of existing approvals of major trade partners and follow-up to previous missions, there are also a number of new requests for approval which will need to be evaluated. The readiness of application files (such as, for example, timely replies by competent authorities to pre-mission questionnaires), but also certain specific regional circumstances (e.g. security considerations), are major conditions for the completion of the inspection programme. Therefore, a number of third country inspections can only be programmed provisionally at this stage. Table 6: SANCO Inspection Programme 2009 in Third Countries AREA/SECTOR Animal health Food of animal origin Foot-and-mouth disease controls Live equidae Aquaculture Poultry Pre-listing evaluation Poultry meat Milk/milkbased products Red meat/red meat products Ossein COUNTRY/REGION Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay Belarus, Libya, Mauritius Canada, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand Canada, China, Thailand Belarus, Serbia, Ukraine Montenegro, Morocco, Ukraine Indonesia Argentina 8

10 AREA/SECTOR COUNTRY/REGION Poultry meat products Casings Milk/milk-based products Red meat/meat products Fishery products Live bivalve molluscs Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs China, Thailand Brazil, China, Pakistan Canada, Israel, Netherlands Antilles, United States Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Namibia, Paraguay, Uruguay Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Guinea, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Sri Lanka Canada, Greenland, United States Albania, Japan, Morocco, Peru, Uruguay, Vietnam TSEs/ABPs Pet food China Veterinary medicines and residues Food of plant origin/foods tuffs and food hygiene Plant protection products Plant health Residues Contaminants Food contact materials Irradiation Genetically modified feed and food Pesticides Export controls Bemisia control equivalency Australia, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, India, Peru, United States, Uzbekistan China, Hong Kong China Brazil, China, United States Brazil, Chile, Morocco China, Kenya, South-Africa, Zimbabwe United States A list of inspections, categorised by country in alphabetical order, is shown in Annex 4. 9

11 Annex 1: Inspections in Member States, by Country in alphabetical order MEMBER STATE Belgique/België (Belgium) България (Bulgaria) Česká republika (Czech Republic) Danmark (Denmark) Deutschland (Germany) Poultry meat and poultry meat products, salmonella control in broilers Animal by-products (ABP) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Pesticides Food hygiene and import controls (food of plant origin) Beef traceability Babyfood Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Bovine semen and embryos General review Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Animal disease contingency plans Hygiene package (meat, milk) Animal welfare (farms, slaughter) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review General review Feed ban controls and requirements for organic fertilisers and soil improvers Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Salmonella control systems (table egg sector) General review Community Reference Laboratory for pesticides Foot-and-mouth disease laboratories Eesti (Estonia) General review Éire/Ireland General review Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Ελλάδα Salmonella control systems (table egg sector) (Greece) Food hygiene and import controls (food of plant origin) Import controls (plant health), potatoes, protected zones (Erwinia amylovora) and Rynchophorus ferrugineus outbreak Food contact materials and food additives Pesticides Hygiene package (meat, milk) Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter)

12 MEMBER STATE España (Spain) France Italia (Italy) Κύπρος (Kypros)/Kıbrıs (Cyprus) Latvija (Latvia) Lietuva (Lithuania) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review Intra-community trade in live equidae incl. animal welfare during transport Animal welfare (slaughter) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review Hygiene packaging (meat, milk) Animal welfare (transport) Foot-and-mouth disease laboratories Feed ban controls and requirements for organic fertilisers and soil improvers Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review Protected Zones (Erwinia amylovora) Babyfood Bovine Brucellosis eradication programmes Poultry meat and poultry meat products Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Food hygiene and pesticides Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Animal disease contingency plans and ovine and caprine Brucellosis eradication programme Poultry meat and poultry meat products Animal by-products (ABP) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Protected zones (Erwinia amylovora), import controls (plant health) Food hygiene, food additives and food contact materials Hygiene Package (meat, milk) Animal disease contingency plans, rabies eradication programme Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Salmonella control systems (table egg sector) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Food hygiene and food contact materials Plant passport, protected zones (Erwinia amylovora), import controls (plant health) Beef traceability Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Animal disease contingency plans, rabies eradication programme Luxembourg General review

13 MEMBER STATE Magyarország (Hungary) Malta Nederland (Netherlands) Österreich (Austria) General review General review Animal welfare (farms, slaughter) Hygiene package (meat and milk) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review Anoplophora chinensis outbreaks Babyfood Foot-and-mouth disease laboratories General review Anoplophora glabripennis outbreaks Polska (Poland) General review Poultry meat and poultry meat products, Salmonella controls in broilers Portugal România (Romania) Slovenija (Slovenia) Pesticides, genetically modified feed and food Import controls (plant health), Giberella circinata and Toxoptera citrida outbreak Food hygiene and food contact materials Pinewood nematode outbreaks Hygiene package (meat, milk) Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis eradication programmes (bovine, ovine, caprine) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) General review GMOs Hygiene package (meat, milk) Animal disease contingency plans, Classical Swine Fever eradication programmes Intra-community trade in live equidae incl. animal welfare during transport Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Salmonella control systems (table egg sector) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Protected zones (Erwinia amylovora), import controls (plant health) Food hygiene and food contact materials Hygiene package (meat, milk) Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter)

14 MEMBER STATE Animal disease contingency plans and eradication programmes Slovensko General review (Slovakia) Protected zones (Erwinia amylovora) Suomi/Finland Sverige (Sweden) United Kingdom Poultry meat and poultry meat products Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Import controls (food of plant origin) and food contact materials Import controls (plant health) Hygiene packaging (meat, milk) Animal disease contingency plans Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene General review Poultry meat and poultry meat products, Salmonella control in broilers Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Pesticides Food contact materials and food additives Hygiene packaging (meat, milk) Animal welfare (farms, transport, slaughter) Foot-and-mouth disease laboratories Plant health: general follow-up Annex 2: Inspections in EFTA Countries, by Country in alphabetical order EFTA COUNTRY Iceland Switzerland food of animal origin) Requirements for feed hygiene in additives and premixtures Public health export of meat and milk Babyfood

15 Annex 3: order Inspections in Candidate Countries, by Country in alphabetical CANDIDATE COUNTRY Hrvatska / Croatia Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Türkiye / Turkey Animal by-products (ABP) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Official controls on feed and requirements for feed hygiene Upgrading of food processing establishments (meat/milk) Import/transit controls/evaluation of new Border Inspection Post (BIP) (subject to construction) Evaluation of milk export sector Upgrading of food processing establishments (meat/milk) Evaluation of milk export sector General review Pesticides (export-related inspection) Avian influenza eradication programme Annex 4: Inspections in Third Countries, by Country in alphabetical order THIRD COUNTRY Albania Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs General review Algeria Fishery products Argentina Australia Poultry meat Foot-and-mouth disease Red meat/red meat products Contaminants (Aflatoxins) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Azerbaijan Contaminants (Aflatoxins) Belarus Milk/milk-based products Live horses (animal health) Benin Fishery products Botswana Red meat/red meat products Brazil Canada Pesticides Contaminants (Aflatoxins) Animal casings (combined with 'bovine meat') Foot-and-mouth disease Bovine meat/meat products (combined with 'casings') Genetically modified feed and food Live bivalve molluscs Milk/milk-based products Poultry (animal health) Aquaculture (animal health)

16 THIRD COUNTRY Cape Verde Fishery products Chile Red meat/red meat products Pesticides Poultry meat products (combined with poultry animal health) Fishery products Pet food of animal origin Irradiation Food contact materials China Genetically modified feed and food Plant health export controls Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Poultry, animal health controls (combined with 'poultry meat') Rabbit meat/rabbit meat products (combined with 'casings') Animal casings (combined with 'rabbit meat') Dominican Republic Fishery products Egypt Fishery products El Salvador Fishery products Gabon Fishery products Greenland Live bivalve molluscs Guatemala Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Guinea Fishery products Hong Kong Food contact materials Red meat/red meat products India Contaminants (Aflatoxins) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Fishery products Indonesia Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Ossein (raw material for gelatine production) Israel Milk/milk-based products Japan Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs Kazakhstan Fishery products Kenya Plant health: export controls - follow up Libyan Arab Fishery products Jamahiriya Live horses (animal health) Mauritius Fishery products Live horses (animal health) Montenegro Red meat/red meat products Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs Morocco Pesticides Aquaculture (animal health) Meat products Myanmar Fishery products Namibia Red meat/red meat products Netherlands Antilles Milk/milk-based products Nicaragua Fishery products Nigeria Fishery products

17 THIRD COUNTRY Pakistan Animal casings Paraguay Peru Russian Federation Serbia Red meat/red meat products Foot-and-mouth disease Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs Contaminants (mycotoxins) Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Milk/milk-based products Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Singapore Aquaculture (animal health) South Africa Citrus fruits and potatoes (plant health) Sri Lanka Fishery products Thailand Ukraine United States Uruguay Poultry meat products Poultry (animal health) Aquaculture (animal health) Red meat/ red meat products Milk/milk-based products Live bivalve molluscs Contaminants (Aflatoxins) Genetically modified feed and food Bemisia controls - equivalency Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Milk/milk-based products Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs Red meat/red meat products Uzbekistan Contaminants (Ochratoxin) Venezuela Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Viet Nam Fishery products and live bivalve molluscs Residues and contaminants (live animals and animal products) Zimbabwe Plant health, export controls