At this session, the Republic of Kazakhstan was unanimously elected coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization / World Health Organization Coordinating Committee for Europe of the Codex Alimentarius Commission for 2018-2019.

Since 2003, Kazakhstan has been a member of the FAO / WHO Coordinating Committee for Europe, which includes 52 countries in the European Region and Central Asia.

The Code's mission is to ensure food safety and fair trade at the global level, develop international food standards and guidelines for food security. Acceptable standards include the development of provisions on maximum permissible values ​​for food additives or residual pesticides to the guidance on the labeling of nutritional information, guidelines for the application of general principles of food hygiene and antimicrobial resistance.

Thus, the Chairmanship of the FAO / WHO Coordinating Committee for Europe will provide Kazakhstan with a unique opportunity to effectively implement the national strategy for food security from the experience of the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and harmonize and apply food standards for maximizing business comfort, potential of the country, promotion of domestic products to the world market and integration into the global economy.

It should be noted that for more than 50 years the Codex member countries have been working to harmonize the standards of food products implemented in international markets. These standards have helped to increase consumer safety, improve public health and have helped reduce unnecessary trade barriers between countries. Such joint work enables countries to acquire a high-quality and safe food product, guaranteed by the Codex standards.

Let us recall that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is a joint intergovernmental body of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and has 188 member countries from 7 geographical regions of the world. The Codex Commission consists of six regional Coordinating Committees (Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America) and 18 Committees on common issues and goods.