Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency

The Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (Chafea) is an executive agency of the European Union, set up by the European Commission to manage four programmes on its behalf, in the domains of health, consumer protection, food safety, and the promotion of European agricultural products.

Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
Chafea
Executive Agency overview
Headquarters12, Rue Guillaume Kroll,
Gasperich, Luxembourg City, L-1882
Luxembourg
49.5790748°N 6.1112315°E / 49.5790748; 6.1112315
Executive Agency executive
  • Véronique Wasbauer, Director
Key document
Websiteec.europa.eu/chafea//

History

The executive agency was originally founded under the Barroso I Commission in 2005, as the ‘Public Health Executive Agency’, with a mandate extending to 31 December 2010. It was entrusted to manage the Commission's 2003-2008 public health programme.[1] In 2008, the Commission delegated its public health programme for the duration of 2008–2013 to the agency, and additionally widened its mandate to cover the oversight of the Commission's consumer policy programme. It was renamed the ‘Executive Agency for Health and Consumers’ to reflect this change, and its mandate extended to 31 December 2015.[2]

In January 2014, the ‘Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency’ legally succeeded the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, reflecting the decision of the Commission to delegate its food safety training programme to the agency following a cost benefit analysis. The Commission also delegated to the agency its consumer and health programmes for the 2014-2020 period, and extended the mandate of the agency to 31 December 2024 accordingly.[3] In December 2014, the Juncker Commission, delegated to the agency its programme of information provision on the promotion of agricultural products for the EU's internal market and foreign consumption. Reflecting this, it became the ‘Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency’ in December 2014.[4]

Governance

Chafea, as an executive agency of the European Commission, falls under its auspices, reporting back, respectively, to the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety; Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers; Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development; and Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.[5] Its current Director is Véronique Wasbauer.[6]

Location

Chafea's headquarters is located in the Luxembourg City quarter of Gasperich, Luxembourg.[7]

See also

References
  1. "2004/858/EC: Commission Decision of 15 December 2004 setting up an executive agency, the 'Executive Agency for the Public Health Programme', for the management of Community action in the field of public health — pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003". 16 December 2004. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  2. "2008/544/EC: Commission Decision of 20 June 2008 amending Decision 2004/858/EC in order to transform the Executive Agency for the Public Health Programme into the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers". 3 July 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  3. "2013/770/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 17 December 2013 establishing the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency and repealing Decision 2004/858/EC". 18 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  4. "2014/927/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 17 December 2014 amending Implementing Decision 2013/770/EU in order to transform the 'Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency' into the 'Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency'". 18 December 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  5. "Chafea - Who we are". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  6. "Chafea - Organisation chart 2018" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  7. "Chafea - Contact". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 June 2019.


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