The EU facilitates the continued strengthening of its single market. The objectives of the EU single market are to protect and empower EU citizens, to ease doing business, to create jobs and stimulate growth.
To contribute to these objectives, in 2021 the EU adopted the Regulation (EU) 2021/690. This new SMP brings together the Union actions in the fields of competitiveness of enterprises, especially SMEs, consumer protection, customers and end-users in financial services, policymaking in financial services and in the plant, animal, food and feed areas.
From 2021 to 2027, with a budget of €1.68 billion, the SMP Food strand contributes to the following:
- Prevention, control and eradication of certain animal diseases and plant pests;
- Fight against antimicrobial resistance;
- Improving animal welfare across the EU;
- Prevention of food waste and combatting fraud;
- Sustainable and resilient production of food;
- Effectiveness and reliability of official controls along the food chain;
- EU 'Farm to Fork' targets.
HaDEA coordinates and manages the delivery of the programme actions as defined in the Annual Work Programmes for SMP – Food.
Funding areas
Reducing the negative impact of animal diseases on health and food safety
Reducing the negative impact of plant diseases on agriculture and forestry
Contributing to assessing trends in antimicrobial resistance & making the EU a best practice region
High-quality & reliable results of controls along the agri-food chain
Contributing to the actions of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy
Training of official control staff for safer food in the EU and beyond
News
HaDEA has published the Prior Information Notice HADEA/2025/OP/0012-PIN - Enhancing Animal Health and Welfare in EU Member States and Candidate Countries: Harmonising EU Legal Frameworks through the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative.
A new plug-in, to be made available as open source, provides on-the-fly translations of Better Training for Safer Food ACADEMY content
HaDEA has published the EU4Health call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0012 - Multiple framework contracts in cascade for legal support services for the compliance assessment of national transposing measures in the health and food safety areas in the context of the enlargement.
HaDEA has published the call for proposals regarding EU support to stakeholders to improve measurements of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in their operations and organisation.