Aim

The signatories assembling at Scheveningen/'s-Gravenhage (The Hague), Netherlands on the 19th October 1990 agree to cooperate in a forum called Food Law Enforcement Practitioners (FLEP).

The forum is an informal grouping of European food law enforcement practitioners. The aims include acquaintance, exchange of information and cooperation between European colleagues in order to further develop mutual confidence and trust in the resolution of practical control problems.

Origin

The EC-Symposium on "Food Control" Rome 1989 identified the need to a create facility which would allow representatives of European food control authorities to meet, exchange information and address inconsistencies and practical enforcement difficulties. The Dutch Inspectorate for Health Protection responded to this challenge by inviting enforcement directors from other Member States to a meeting in the Hague in October 1990. During this meeting the delegates agreed to establish an informal European Forum of Food Law Enforcement Practitioners (FLEP).

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