Albania trying to achieve EU food security standards

TIRANA, May 24 – Albanian authorities have created the National Food Authority which is to check the standards of the food products in the country.
Last week a ceremony was held with the presence of Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection Genc Ruli and EC Ambassador Helmuth Lohan.
The European Commission Delegation to Albania helped Albanian authorities in drafting of the legislation on functioning of this authority and up to refurbishing of the premises.
Lohan expressed his enthusiasm for setting up of such an important institution targeting to achieve the integration standards into the European family.
The establishment of this authority is a very important step forward in the process of European integration. Integration implies above all a process of standards which have dynamism; they never get frozen, but get more and more consolidated.
National Food Authority (NFA) is set up on a solid concept of reform: it has merged 5 inspectorates into one. The reform targets to make it serious, fair and competent. Likewise, it targets to bring NFA and inspectorates out of arbitrariness.