The Food Chain Safety Strategy, which has been adopted as Governmental Decision, is a National Medium-term Strategy, according to Governmental Decree No . 38/2012 on governmental strategic governance and Article a) Paragraph 29 Act XLVI of 2008 on food chain and official control .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy covers the previously defined food chain and food chain safety, but does not include areas connecting to food chain covered and focused by other strategies, e .g . programming rural development or food industry .
In the course of situation analysis and targeting the strategy obviously concerns horizontal domains such as training, education, research and formulates objectives and recommendations maintaining the scope of the field .
Food chain safety due to its multidisciplinary nature, complexity and being a concern of everyone, requires a special, comprehensive approach .
The specific and overall topic suggests that the current strategy is connected to other strategic programs and action plans . It has links with the Constitution and the Government’s program accordingly, in line with the National Sustainable Development Strategy and with the most important national strategies and plans (i .e . Széchenyi Plan, Széll Kálmán Plan, Semmelweis Plan, Magyary Plan) and other, already existing comprehensive and sector-based plans and programs (i .e . National Rural Development Strategy and the National Environmental Program) .
The food chain safety area has an increasing number of strategic and strategic-like documents; therefore it is necessary to clarify the relationship, roles and objectives of these documents by making clear the function of the Food Chain Safety Strategy .
The relationship between the Food Chain Safety Strategy and the program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on ‘Food security – The strategic principles of the Hungarian food industry, rural development and food safety’ is quite close; the origin of the programs indicated by the Food Chain Safety Strategy is included in the following programs of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Considering the complexity of food safety; Enhancement of microbiological food safety; Enhancement of chemical food safety;
Government, institutions; Enforcement of the responsibility of FBOs; Protection of food chain;
High-protection of sensitive consumer groups;
Safety of non-traditional foods; Education and communication; Research-development .
The National Rural Development Strategy (NVS) 2020 is significant in terms of the strategy, as this also defines certain main priorities, targets and planned actions regarding food chain control . Obviously several connections have been found with the strategic area of NVS:”Added Value Increase, Safe Food Supply and Secure Market” because the most important aspect is the protection of the consumers’
health, which cannot be subordinated by neither economical, nor political interests . At the same time the elements of wide range risk reduction cannot be restricted only to food inspections;
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Corr espondenc e with other s tr at egies
The Food Chain Safety Strategy, which has been adopted as Governmental Decision, is a National Medium-term Strategy, according to Governmental Decree No . 38/2012 on governmental strategic governance and Article a) Paragraph 29 Act XLVI of 2008 on food chain and official control .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy covers the previously defined food chain and food chain safety, but does not include areas connecting to food chain covered and focused by other strategies, e .g . programming rural development or food industry .
In the course of situation analysis and targeting the strategy obviously concerns horizontal domains such as training, education, research and formulates objectives and recommendations maintaining the scope of the field .
Food chain safety due to its multidisciplinary nature, complexity and being a concern of everyone, requires a special, comprehensive approach .
The specific and overall topic suggests that the current strategy is connected to other strategic programs and action plans . It has links with the Constitution and the Government’s program accordingly, in line with the National Sustainable Development Strategy and with the most important national strategies and plans (i .e . Széchenyi Plan, Széll Kálmán Plan, Semmelweis Plan, Magyary Plan) and other, already existing comprehensive and sector-based plans and programs (i .e . National Rural Development Strategy and the National Environmental Program) .
The food chain safety area has an increasing number of strategic and strategic-like documents; therefore it is necessary to clarify the relationship, roles and objectives of these documents by making clear the function of the Food Chain Safety Strategy .
The relationship between the Food Chain Safety Strategy and the program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on ‘Food security – The strategic principles of the Hungarian food industry, rural development and food safety’ is quite close; the origin of the programs indicated by the Food Chain Safety Strategy is included in the following programs of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Considering the complexity of food safety; Enhancement of microbiological food safety; Enhancement of chemical food safety;
Government, institutions; Enforcement of the responsibility of FBOs; Protection of food chain;
High-protection of sensitive consumer groups;
Safety of non-traditional foods; Education and communication; Research-development .
The National Rural Development Strategy (NVS) 2020 is significant in terms of the strategy, as this also defines certain main priorities, targets and planned actions regarding food chain control . Obviously several connections have been found with the strategic area of NVS:”Added Value Increase, Safe Food Supply and Secure Market” because the most important aspect is the protection of the consumers’
health, which cannot be subordinated by neither economical, nor political interests . At the same time the elements of wide range risk reduction cannot be restricted only to food inspections;
the supervision of their environmental aspects is equally important regarding the food chain network perspective .
So therefore the followings constitute part of the NVS: Protection and Sustainable Use of Na-tional Resources and Values (Soil conservation and mineral management program and Water supply and water quality protection program);
Improvement of Rural Environmental Quality (Drinking water quality improvement prog-ram); Sustainable Agricultural Structure and Production Policy (Landscape and Agro-Environmental Management Program); Rural Intellectual and Physical Infrastructure, Health Promotion, Viable Rural Settlements, Local Communities (Raising Consumer Awareness Program and Research, Development and innovation program) .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy takes into consideration the situation analysis and goals of NVS connecting to food chain safety in order to harmonize the two strategic documents .
Besides the National Rural Development Strategy relationship with the National Environmental Program77 was emphasized as well . The National Environmental Program and Food Chain Safety Strategy consider similar topics; they are closely connected with special respect to the following fields: Environmental awareness, Environment and health (especially water quality and food safety), Sustainable land use, Protection and sustainable use of our waters, Waste management and Environmental Safety .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy has not been deduced from rural developmental, economical, or environmental protection targets, but – according to the previously defined, main objective – it is a document focusing on sharing data and information related to food chain safety in a transparent and mutual way and on enhancement of communication of stakeholders, thus it aims at a knowledge-based society, it has also several connections with other, horizontal strategic documents.
Particular attention was paid to documents related knowledge-based society, like targets defined in the Lisbon Strategy and Europe 202078, highlighting the knowledge as value . According to the priority “Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation”
smart growth means strengthening of knowledge and innovation as drivers of our future growth . This requires improving the quality of education, strengthening of research performance, promoting innovation and knowledge transfer throughout the Union, making full use of information and communication technologies, ensuring that innovative ideas can be turned into new products and services that create growth and quality jobs so as to handle European and global challenges of society .
Success needs money and proactive actions and paying attention to the needs of the user and market possibilities .
The National Research Development and Innovation Strategy 202079 constitutes the national approach on the previously expressed innovative effort by the European Union .
All of the milestones laid down in the strategy are connected to the programs of the National Food Chain Strategy on strengthening research and innovation: Training of Researchers and Creative experts; Internationally competitive research organizations; Integrated innovation services; Enhancing collaboration and networks;
Positioning of small innovative businesses; R&D and technology based enhancing of medium-sized businesses; R&D based integration of internationally owned MNCs .
Besides the above mentioned strategies other horizontal strategies were considered as well, i .e . the Strategy for Danube region80 , the elements of this strategy can be connected to the Natio-nal Food Chain Safety programs: 4) Water quality restoration and preservation; 6) Reservation of biodiversity, lands, air and soil quality; 7) Buil-ding of a knowledge based society; 8) Supporting the development of the competitiveness of busi-nesses; 9) Investment into human resources and skills; 10) Expansion of institutions and strengthening of cooperation; 11) Improvement of security .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy had to be aligned with priority and execution tools of the National Sustainable Development Strategy 2012-202481 . So several pillars of them concern the followings: Knowledge; Health; Public resources; Natural resources; Business asset, employment; Macro-economical balance .
On the whole it is obvious that the goals related to food chain safety due to their importance occur in several horizontal and sector-based strategies and programs as well, but there is
no harmonization with each other . This can lead to the fragmentation of goals and execution because of lack of appropriate allocation of the resources .
The National Food Chain Safety Strategy with its overall topic and level is predestined to provide a framework for heterogeneous strategies focusing on certain subareas . The state sector policy based on the National Food Chain Safety Strategy and the operational implementation and monitoring system can guarantee the practical implementation of intentions and goals . The relation of the objectives, which is illustrated below, gives the basis of the involvement of the strategies in the National Food Chain Safety Strategy framework, providing future integration .
The correspondence with other strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy is presented on Figure 12, while the relationship between the main objectives of the strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy’s programs are shown on Figure 13 .
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the supervision of their environmental aspects is equally important regarding the food chain network perspective .
So therefore the followings constitute part of the NVS: Protection and Sustainable Use of Na-tional Resources and Values (Soil conservation and mineral management program and Water supply and water quality protection program);
Improvement of Rural Environmental Quality (Drinking water quality improvement prog-ram); Sustainable Agricultural Structure and Production Policy (Landscape and Agro-Environmental Management Program); Rural Intellectual and Physical Infrastructure, Health Promotion, Viable Rural Settlements, Local Communities (Raising Consumer Awareness Program and Research, Development and innovation program) .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy takes into consideration the situation analysis and goals of NVS connecting to food chain safety in order to harmonize the two strategic documents .
Besides the National Rural Development Strategy relationship with the National Environmental Program77 was emphasized as well . The National Environmental Program and Food Chain Safety Strategy consider similar topics; they are closely connected with special respect to the following fields: Environmental awareness, Environment and health (especially water quality and food safety), Sustainable land use, Protection and sustainable use of our waters, Waste management and Environmental Safety .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy has not been deduced from rural developmental, economical, or environmental protection targets, but – according to the previously defined, main objective – it is a document focusing on sharing data and information related to food chain safety in a transparent and mutual way and on enhancement of communication of stakeholders, thus it aims at a knowledge-based society, it has also several connections with other, horizontal strategic documents.
Particular attention was paid to documents related knowledge-based society, like targets defined in the Lisbon Strategy and Europe 202078, highlighting the knowledge as value . According to the priority “Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation”
smart growth means strengthening of knowledge and innovation as drivers of our future growth . This requires improving the quality of education, strengthening of research performance, promoting innovation and knowledge transfer throughout the Union, making full use of information and communication technologies, ensuring that innovative ideas can be turned into new products and services that create growth and quality jobs so as to handle European and global challenges of society .
Success needs money and proactive actions and paying attention to the needs of the user and market possibilities .
The National Research Development and Innovation Strategy 202079 constitutes the national approach on the previously expressed innovative effort by the European Union .
All of the milestones laid down in the strategy are connected to the programs of the National Food Chain Strategy on strengthening research and innovation: Training of Researchers and Creative experts; Internationally competitive research organizations; Integrated innovation services; Enhancing collaboration and networks;
Positioning of small innovative businesses; R&D and technology based enhancing of medium-sized businesses; R&D based integration of internationally owned MNCs .
Besides the above mentioned strategies other horizontal strategies were considered as well, i .e . the Strategy for Danube region80 , the elements of this strategy can be connected to the Natio-nal Food Chain Safety programs: 4) Water quality restoration and preservation; 6) Reservation of biodiversity, lands, air and soil quality; 7) Buil-ding of a knowledge based society; 8) Supporting the development of the competitiveness of busi-nesses; 9) Investment into human resources and skills; 10) Expansion of institutions and strengthening of cooperation; 11) Improvement of security .
The Food Chain Safety Strategy had to be aligned with priority and execution tools of the National Sustainable Development Strategy 2012-202481 . So several pillars of them concern the followings: Knowledge; Health; Public resources; Natural resources; Business asset, employment; Macro-economical balance .
On the whole it is obvious that the goals related to food chain safety due to their importance occur in several horizontal and sector-based strategies and programs as well, but there is
no harmonization with each other . This can lead to the fragmentation of goals and execution because of lack of appropriate allocation of the resources .
The National Food Chain Safety Strategy with its overall topic and level is predestined to provide a framework for heterogeneous strategies focusing on certain subareas . The state sector policy based on the National Food Chain Safety Strategy and the operational implementation and monitoring system can guarantee the practical implementation of intentions and goals . The relation of the objectives, which is illustrated below, gives the basis of the involvement of the strategies in the National Food Chain Safety Strategy framework, providing future integration .
The correspondence with other strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy is presented on Figure 12, while the relationship between the main objectives of the strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy’s programs are shown on Figure 13 .
Global
Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Food security Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Values
Improvement of Rural Environmental Quality
Sustainable Agricultural Structure and Production Policy Added Value Increase, Safe Food Supply, Secure Market
Rural Intellectual and Physical Infrastructure, Health Promotion, Viable Rural Settlements, Local Communities
Environmental awareness
Environment and health
Sustainable land use
Protection and sustainable use of our waters
Waste management
Positioning of small innovative businesses
R&D and technology based enhancing of medium-sized businesses
Considering the complexity of food safety Enhancement of microbiological food safety Enhancement of chemical food safety Enforce of responsibility of FBOs High-protection of sensitive consumer groups
Education and communication of the quality of education Improvement of research performance New products and services
from innovative ideas Building of a knowledge based society
Water quality restoration and preservation Support of development of competitiveness of businesses Expansion of institutions and strengthening of cooperation
Investment into human resources and skills Reservation of biodiversity, lands, air and soil quality
Improvement of security
Figure 12: The correspondence between the Food Chain Safety Strategy and other strategies Figure 13: The relationship between the targets of the strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy .
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Global
Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Food security Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Values
Improvement of Rural Environmental Quality
Sustainable Agricultural Structure and Production Policy Added Value Increase, Safe Food Supply, Secure Market
Rural Intellectual and Physical Infrastructure, Health Promotion, Viable Rural Settlements, Local Communities
Environmental awareness
Environment and health
Sustainable land use
Protection and sustainable use of our waters
Waste management
Positioning of small innovative businesses
R&D and technology based enhancing of medium-sized businesses
Considering the complexity of food safety Enhancement of microbiological food safety Enhancement of chemical food safety Enforce of responsibility of FBOs High-protection of sensitive consumer groups
Education and communication of the quality of education Improvement of research performance New products and services
from innovative ideas Building of a knowledge based society
Water quality restoration and preservation Support of development of competitiveness of businesses Expansion of institutions and strengthening of cooperation
Investment into human resources and skills Reservation of biodiversity, lands, air and soil quality
Improvement of security
Figure 12: The correspondence between the Food Chain Safety Strategy and other strategies Figure 13: The relationship between the targets of the strategies and the Food Chain Safety Strategy .