ANNEX

Working programme for 2008 on training tools in the field of food safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health

TRAINING

(1)   Budget lines: 17 04 07 01 and 17 04 04 01

Legal basis:

—	Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Article 51 and Article 66(1)(b),

—	Directive 2000/29/EC, particular Article 2(1)(i).

The action to be financed under this budget aims at the development, organisation and delivery of training courses and workshops or seminars in the Community and in third countries in order to ensure that personnel performing official controls are adequately trained. Through these training courses and seminars, government officials, national authorities and laboratory experts, shall be informed about and trained on Community feed and food legislation and the control requirements for feed and food to be allowed on the Community markets.

The Commission contributes to the training of officials in the Member States in that it supplements the training received at national level with training in aspects that are relevant from a Community point of view.

For 2008, training actions will concern the following subjects:

—	food and feed control procedures based on HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) principles; audit techniques to verify implementation of HACCP systems,

—	veterinary and food safety control checks in Border Inspection Posts (airports, seaports and roads/rail),

—	food Hygiene and Control: fish, meat and dairy products,

—	prevention, control and eradication of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies,

—	plant Health Controls (EC plant quarantine regime for potatoes, EC internal plant quarantine regime, EC plant quarantine regime for imports),

—	plant Protection Products (food and feed safety aspects): evaluation and registration,

—	zoonoses and microbiological criteria in foodstuffs,

—	animal Welfare: stunning and killing of animals at slaughterhouses and in disease control situation and animal welfare during transport,

—	food law, feed law, animal health and animal welfare and plant health rules (EUR 8 800 000).

Financing: through public procurement.

The global budgetary envelope reserved for the procurements during the year amounts to EUR 8 800 000.

For each of the technical issues mentioned above one or more specific service contracts will be signed. It is estimated to sign around 14 service contracts. External contractors are mainly involved in the organisational and logistical aspects of the training activities.

The aim is to launch the procurement procedure as soon as possible (approximately between March and May) to have the contracts signed during 2008.

(2)   Budget line: 17 01 04 05

Legal basis:

—	Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Article 66(1)(c).

The action to be financed under this budget aims at obtaining feedback on the trainings. Feedback is one of the key elements in the domain of better training for safer food. The production of a report on the 2007 activities is part of this.

Feedback on trainings will be gathered also through an ex-post evaluation. Forms/questionnaires for this purpose will be distributed to a cross section of participants after their attendance at a training event in order to gauge the impact of the training on their professional lives.

Finally, to better arrange the training programmes, IT equipment and tools, as well as promotional material, information and communication supports need to be financed (EUR 308 000).

Financing: existing framework contracts

It is estimated to sign around four service contracts.

Indicative timeframe for signing the contracts: between March and July.

Summary

No	Name	Budget line	Legal base	Amount in EUR
1	Training: external contracts for the execution of the training programme	17 04 07 01	Regulation (EC) No 882/2004	8 350 000
		17 04 04 01	Directive 2000/29/EC	450 000
2	Training: annual report, ex-post evaluation, IT equipment and tools, promotional material, information and communication support	17 01 04 05	Regulation (EC) No 882/2004	308 000
Total				9 108 000