Welcome to the Directorate General for 'Health and Consumers'

Our job is to help make Europe's citizens healthier, safer and more confident. Over the years the European Union has established EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health. The Directorate General for 'Health and Consumers' has the task of keeping these laws up to date. It is national, regional or even local governments in EU countries who actually apply the EU's health and consumer protection laws. It is their job to make sure traders, manufacturers and food producers in their country observe the rules. Nonetheless, part of our job is to check that this is really happening and that the rules are being applied properly in all EU countries.


News

Better Training for Safer Food
Better Training for Safer Food in Africa (2008/S 128-169277)
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The European Commission has adopted an important new proposal for a Directive on patient's rights in cross border healthcare
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Better Training for Safer Food
EU launches training on plant health control
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Recruitment: Temporary Agent (M/F)
Programme Coordinators - Health and ConsumersSenior Project Officer - "Better Training For Safer Food"