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
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• 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
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Session |
Date |
Place |
Language |
Deadline for registration |
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Session 1 |
04-07 December 2018 |
Antwerp, Belgium |
English |
5 November 2018 |
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Session 2 |
22-25 January 2019 |
Frankfurt, Germany |
English |
15 December 2018 |
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Session 3 |
19-22 February 2019 |
Zagreb, Croatia |
English |
20 January 2019 |
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Session 4 |
12-15 March 2019 |
Seville, Spain |
English |
15 February 2019 |
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Session 5 |
16-19 April 2019 |
Vilnius, Lithuania |
English |
15 March 2019 |
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Session 6 |
21-24 May 2019 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
English |
20 April 2019 |
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Session 7 |
17-20 September 2019 |
Zagreb, Croatia |
English |
10 August 2019 |
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Session 8 |
15-18 October 2019 |
Seville, Spain |
English |
15 September 2019 |
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Session 9 |
26-29 November 2019 |
Seville, Spain |
English |
20 October 2019 |
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Session 10 |
21-24 January 2020 |
Rome, Italy |
English |
15 December 2019 |
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Session 11 |
18-21 February 2020 |
Antwerp, Belgium |
English |
20 January 2020 |
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Session 12 |
22-26 March 2021 |
ONLINE |
English |
11 March 2021 |
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Session 13 |
12-16 April 2021 |
ONLINE |
English |
31 March 2021 |
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Session 14 |
03-07 May 2021 |
ONLINE |
English |
21 April 2021 |
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Session 15 |
10-14 May 2021 | ONLINE | English | 28 April 2021 |
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Session 16 |
24-28 May 2021 | ONLINE | English | 12 May 2021 |
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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