International Best Practices
for Albanian Food Safety
Support to food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary standards; a four-year, 5- million-euro programme funded by the European Union and implemented by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in partnership with the Finnish Food Authority, the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Creative Business Solutions in Albania. The Food Safety Project aims to further strengthen the legislative framework, organization, implementation capacity and procedures to ensure the protection of human, animal and plant health in a manner that is consistent with international best practices and Albania’s alignment with the EU acquis.
Its objective is: ‘To establish institutional and administrative capacities in line with the overall public administration reform agenda to ensure improved protection of human, animal and plant health, support agri-food industry competitiveness, enhance environmental protection and facilitate progress towards EU accession. Specific Objective: Safer and higher quality food is available in the marketplace through the implementation of strengthened food safety, veterinary health, and phytosanitary standards, based on legislative alignment with the EU acquis, effective regulation, risk analysis, greater engagement with producers, consumers & food business operators, delivered through an appropriately structured, resourced and high-performing administration system.
Organizational and Human Resource Capacities
‘An appropriately structured, resourced and organized administrative system with increased capacity to adopt, integrate and implement the EU acquis and standards in the food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary fields is established.'
Public Awareness Regarding Food Safety
‘Producers, consumers and food business operators demonstrate higher levels of knowledge and awareness with regard to food safety & quality, are more proactively engaged with policy-makers and have a better understanding of food law, their rights, roles and responsibilities.’
This project is funded by the European Union and is implemented by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in partnership with the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine, the Finnish Food Authority and Creative Business Solutions (CBS), Albania.
