Different standards in quality of products on the internal market got a new impetus in October 2017 by a statement delivered by Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission. Juncker stated that different quality of two equally-looking products within the EU is unacceptable. The Commission subsequently issued guidelines for Member States to implement EU food legislation and started to develop a uniform methodology for testing composition. Dual quality of food in the EU single market was also discussed by the representatives of EU and Czech institutions, food producers and sellers and the general public on 8th December 2017 in the European House in Prague.
From left: Dana Kovaříková, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic; Jindřich Fialka, Director of the Food Department, Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic; Marta Nováková, President of the Union of Trade and Tourism of the Czech Republic; Olga Sehnalová, Member of the European Parliament (S&D/CSSD); Ladislav Miko, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission; David Klimeš, Ekonom Weekly
From left: Jindřich Fialka, Director of the Food Department, Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic; Marta Nováková, President of the Union of Trade and Tourism of the Czech Republic; Olga Sehnalová, Member of the European Parliament (S&D/CSSD)
From left: Olga Sehnalová, Member of the European Parliament (S&D/CSSD); Ladislav Miko, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission; David Klimeš, Ekonom Weekly
Participants of the debate
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