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Cabinet Regulation No. 624 of 2011 on By-law of the Food Sector Council

Country/Territory
Latvia
Document type
Regulation
Date
2011
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
"Latvijas Vēstnesis", 125 (4523), 11.08.2011.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Institution Agricultural development Internal trade International trade Policy/planning Sustainable development Food security
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe
Abstract

The Food Sector Council is a consultative and co-ordinating institution established in order to promote the development of competitive and sustainable food sector. The Council shall have the following functions to co-ordinate issues related to the food sector; to ensure the solving of problems essential to the food sector; and to promote the development of the food sector, facilitating the competitiveness thereof in local and international market, as well as export of food products. The Council shall carry out the following tasks: (1) evaluate issues related to the food sector and provide an opinion on them (also to the Cabinet, committees of the Saeima and the relevant ministries); (2) provide proposals regarding State policy priorities in the food sector; (3) assess and provide an opinion on legal acts, drafts thereof and development planning documents, as well as planned measures that are related to the food sector; (4) assess the impact of other fields on the Latvian food sector (also legal acts and decisions adopted in accordance with sectoral policy in other fields); and (5) in issues essential to the food sector ensure the informative link between representatives of the food sector and State administrative institutions, as well as co-ordinated action thereof.

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