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Contents Preamble Scope and definitions. General Food Law General principles of food law principles of transparency General obligations in the food trade General requirements of food law the European Food Safety Authority Mission and tasks of the organization Operation Independence, transparency, confidentiality and communication Financial Provisions General Provisions Early alert system, crisis management and emergency situations Emergency Procedures and final provisions Committee and Mediation blanker Committee Final provisions. Preamble blanker
(4) There is a significant difference in terms of concepts, principles and procedures between the food laws of the Member States. When Member States adopt measures to regulate the area of food, these differences may impede the free movement blanker of food, may create unequal conditions of competition and thus directly affect blanker the functioning of domestic traffic.
(5) Accordingly, it is necessary blanker to harmonize these concepts, principles and procedures in order to create a common basis for the adoption of measures to regulate the area of food and feed, and undertaken in member countries and within the Community. However, it is necessary to provide sufficient time for the removal of all legal collision between the provisions in existing legislation, both at the level of Member States and at Community level, and ensure, as these differences are not eliminated, the application of relevant legislation on the basis of the principles blanker laid down in this Regulation.
including chemical and microbiological contaminants. However, since the quality of water for human consumption is already regulated by Council Directives 80/778 / EEC () and 98/83 / EC (), water is considered to be correct if the conditions defined in Article 6 of Directive 98/83 / EC.
(7) In terms of food law, it is necessary to include the requirements for feed, including its production and use of animals used in food production. This is not inconsistent with similar requirements which have so far applied blanker and which will continue to apply, and which relate to feed and apply to all animals, including pets.
(8) The position of the Community that there must be a high level of protection you would expect in the preparation of food law, which is applied in the same way, regardless of whether it comes to food or feed in domestic or international traffic.
(9) It is necessary to ensure full confidence of consumers, other stakeholders and trading partners in decision-making processes that form the basis of food law, its scientific basis and the structure and independence of institutions for the protection of health and other issues of interest.
(10) Experience has shown that it is necessary to adopt measures to guarantee that the food that is unsafe will not be placed on the market, as well as the provision of a system for the identification and resolution of problems of food safety to ensure proper functioning of the internal traffic, as well as health people. It is necessary to initiate and similar issues related to feed safety.
it is necessary to draw up a detailed food law and cover a wide range of provisions that have a direct or indirect impact on food safety and animal feed, which would include provisions on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, feed and other agricultural inputs at the level of primary production.
(12) In order to ensure food safety, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the food chain, which is a continuation of primary production, including the production of feed, up to sales, including the sale or supply to the consumers of food, since each element can affect on food safety.
(13) Experience has shown that it is therefore necessary to consider the production, manufacture, transport and distribution of food for animals blanker used for food production, including blanker the production of animals that can be used as food in fish farms, since the accidental or deliberate contamination of food for animals, changes to the composition, fraud or other similar activities may directly or indirectly affect the safety of food.
(15) The creation of a network of accredited laboratories, at the regional and / or interregional level in order to ensure continuous monitoring of food safety, blanker could play an important role in the prevention of health risks for citizens.
(16) The measures taken by Member blanker States and the Community adopted, which regulate the area of food and feed should generally be based on risk analysis except where this is not possible due to
(17) When the goal of food law reduction, elimination or avoidance of a risk to health, the three interconnected components of risk analysis - risk assessment, risk management and exchange of information on risk - will enable the systematic application of the methodology laying blanker down effective, blanker proportionate and targeted measures or other activities that aim to protect health.
(19) It was noted that scientific risk assessment alone