Main topics to be addressed in the workshops are:

• EU Control System and consistency with international trade rules (WTO, SPS, TBT)
• Organisation of the official controls on agri-food products in the EU, including competent authorities and food business operators’ responsibilities and rules governing trade and imports of such products from non-EU countries
• EU information management systems and e-certification
• Overview on EU agri-food fraud policy
• Overview on EU digital trade and EU e-commerce policy
• Vulnerability of the food chain to agri-food fraud, including the competent authorities and industry prevention role
• Investigation techniques

Target participants

The workshop is intended for  officials from competent authorities in non-EU countries involved in planning and organising official control activities (preferably at national/regional levels) in the fields of the training.

Dissemination

The BTSF programme is based on the “train the trainers” approach, and for this reason dissemination of the received knowledge is fundamental for the trainings to have a greater impact. Participants will be requested to commit themselves to disseminate the information received via different methods, i.e. informing colleagues about the information received at the training, distributing the training materials, preparing informative articles in the professional national or, if possible, in international journals, preparing presentations based on the training materials for the staff of national Competent Authorities or other disseminating methods which could be appropriate to share the information received via the BTSF training. During the course participants will be provided with a training package to be used as supporting dissemination material.