EFSA BUDGET COMPLAINT – FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES BUDGET FREEZING
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that a proposed freezing of spending by the European Union (EU) from 2007-13 on consumer protection, will prevent it from carrying out core work. In a strongly-worded letter to the European Parliament, EFSA's chair Stuart Slorach and acting executive director Herman Koëter appealed for help from MEPs in expanding funding. Under the budget deal brokered by Britain in December, consumer protection, health, (plus youth, culture and audiovisual projects) will be frozen at Euro 520 million per ...
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