Organic Farming scheme



GENERAL INFORMATION

The BTSF Contract on the Organic Farming Scheme (CHAFEA/2015/96/01) aims at organising and implementing 14 three-day training sessions. The first phase was successfully concluded. We entered the second phase that runs from 2018 till 2020 in different EU locations. A total of 425 participants from the Competent Authorities of EU Member States, Candidate Countries, and selected non-EU countries are expected to be trained.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sessions to be held in 2021 will take place online. Their duration will be from Monday to Friday, four hours per day, during the mornings. Please check the Training Calendar for more information.


OBJECTIVES

The training courses aim at further improving the knowledge of the control requirements for organic products by bringing together participants from different Member States and other invited countries and to allow the exchange of experience and disseminate best practices for control activities and procedures.

Thereby, the programme will aim at ensuring consistent and rigorous implementation of the regulatory requirements and contributing to increase the effectiveness of the control activities implemented by the staff of competent authorities and of private bodies who are in charge of verifying the compliance of organic production and labelling of organic products with the EU legislative requirements.


TARGETED PUBLIC

The profiles of the applicants should respect the following criteria:

• Be staff of the Competent Authorities involved in official control activities for organic production and labelling of organic products and/or in their planning and coordination, as well as field inspectors in those authorities involved in carrying out such controls

• Staff of the public control authorities or the private control bodies to which specific responsibilities or tasks relating to control activities for organic production and labelling of organic products have been conferred (for control authorities) or delegated (for control bodies) by the competent authorities. In addition, the trainees should have the required technical skills related to control activities for organic production and labelling of organic products as well as fluency in English. It should be clear from their background and professional skills that the participation in the training activity will be a key element for the improvement of their daily work.


WHO WE ARE

CONSORTIUM MEMBERS

Leading company: Agriconsulting Europe S.A.

Partners: FiBL Germany and AENOR

 

 

TECHNICAL PARTNERS

1. Department of environment and organic farming. Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Czech Republic

2. Humus, rete sociale per la bioagricultura italiana, Italy

3. Ekoagros, Lithuania

4. Subdirectorate General for Quality and Organic Farming. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA), Spain

The Spanish Society for Organic Farming (SEAE), Spain

 

         

 


CALENDAR

Session

Date

Place

 Language 

 Deadline for registration 

Session 1

04-07 December 2018

Antwerp, Belgium

English

5 November 2018

Session 2

22-25 January 2019

Frankfurt, Germany

English

15 December 2018

Session 3

19-22 February 2019

Zagreb, Croatia

English

20 January 2019

Session 4

12-15 March 2019

Seville, Spain

English

15 February 2019

Session 5

16-19 April 2019

Vilnius, Lithuania

English

15 March 2019

Session 6

21-24 May 2019

Prague, Czech Republic

English

20 April 2019

Session 7

17-20 September 2019

Zagreb, Croatia

English

10 August 2019

Session 8

15-18 October 2019

Seville, Spain

English

15 September 2019

Session 9

26-29 November 2019

Seville, Spain

English

20 October 2019

Session 10

21-24 January 2020

Rome, Italy

English

15 December 2019

Session 11

18-21 February 2020

Antwerp, Belgium

English

20 January 2020

Session 12

22-26 March 2021

ONLINE

English

11 March 2021

Session 13

12-16 April 2021

ONLINE

English

31 March 2021

Session 14

03-07 May 2021

ONLINE

English

21 April 2021

Session 15

10-14 May 2021 ONLINE English 28 April 2021

Session 16

24-28 May 2021 ONLINE English 12 May 2021

Session 17

14-18 June 2021 ONLINE English 1 June 2021
Session 18 05-09 July 2021 ONLINE English 21 June 2021
 

HOW TO APPLY

Official "Better Training for Safer Food" contact points have been designated for EU Member States, as well as Candidate, Acceding, and Associated Countries. Each contact point interfaces with the Commission in order to coordinate aspects of the initiative's activities relevant to their own country, in particular the selection of training participants. Staff of competent authorities interested in finding out more about participating in "Better Training for Safer Food" activities are invited to refer to the appropriate national contact point. To know more about who is your national contact point, please click on the following link:

http://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/docs/btsf_national-contact-points.pdf


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