In order to promote the interests of consumers and to ensure a high level of consumer protection, the Union shall contribute to protecting the health, safety and economic interests of consumers, as well as to promoting their right to information, education and to organise themselves in order to safeguard their interests.

A high level of human health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Union policies and activities. Union action, which shall complement national policies, shall be directed towards improving public health, preventing human illness and diseases, and obviating sources of danger to human health. Such action shall cover the fight against the major health scourges, by promoting research into their causes, their transmission and their prevention, as well as health information and education and monitoring, early warning of and combating serious cross border threats to health. The Union shall complement the Member States’ action in reducing drugs-related health damage, including information and prevention.

(Article 168 and 169 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union)

preparing recommendations for the Commission on implementation of the programme and its future development,

contributing to studies and evaluations, in particular the annual and/or mid-term evaluation of implementation of the programme,

contributing to evaluation of the impact of the programme and to monitoring the actual effect of the measures on the market,

collecting, processing and distributing data, and in particular compiling, analysing and transmitting to the Commission all information required to guide implementation of the programme and promote coordination with other Union programmes, the Member States or international organisations,

verification on the basis of the exclusion criteria and evaluation of proposals,

preparation and publication of the calls for proposals defined in the work programmes,

in the framework of the information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries covered by Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014, regarding simple programmes, perform the following implementation tasks:

performing all the operations required to launch contests and award prizes in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012;

awarding grants and managing the ensuing agreement or decision, including the operations required to launch and conclude grant award procedures,

manage some or all of the phases of programme implementation and stages in the lifetime of projects in the framework of the Consumer programme 2014-2020, the Public Health programme 2014-2020, the food safety training measures covered by Directive 2000/29/EC, Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and Decision C(2014) 1269, the information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries covered by Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014, as well as of the Public Health programme 2008-2013, the Consumer programme 2007-2013, the food safety training measures covered by Directive 2000/29/EC, Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 and Decision C(2012) 1548, and the management of the agreement with ANEC governed by Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012. In this connection, the Agency is responsible for monitoring projects, making the necessary checks and recovery procedures, and performing budget implementation tasks covering revenue and expenditure within the meaning of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012, and in particular:

The Agency is responsible for the following programme-related tasks, as defined both in its act of establishment and in the delegation act last amended on 17 and 19 December 2014.

As a consequence, all references in this annex to the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (Chafea) shall also be deemed to mean, as of 1 January 2015, the newly established Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (Chafea), which is the legal successor to the EAHC.

By its Implementing Decision of 17 December 2013 (2013/770/EU) the European Commission established the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (Chafea), which replaced and succeeded the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2024. Commission Implementing Decision 2013/770/EU (amended) of 17 December 2014 then renamed Chafea the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency.

The Agency also manages the legacy of the following programmes and actions: the Public Health programme 2008-2013, the Consumer programme 2007-2013, the food safety training measures covered by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, Directive 2000/29/EC, Decision C(2012) 1548 and Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, and the last operating grant agreement that was signed between the Agency and ANEC, the European consumer voice in standardisation, which is governed by Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012.

By Commission Implementing Decision 2013/770/EU, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision 2014/927/EU, the Agency became responsible for carrying out the implementation tasks related to the management of certain EU programmes — namely the Consumer programme 2014-2020, the Public Health programme 2014-2020, the food safety training measures covered by Directive 2000/29/EC and Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and the information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries.

It adopts the Agency’s annual work programme after approval by the European Commission. In addition, it adopts the administrative budget of the Agency and its annual activity report.

Comprises five members appointed by the European Commission. The members of the Steering Committee are appointed for two years.

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