Our Mission
The Heads of the National Agencies (HoA) is a forum of the most senior level of management of national agencies in Europe dealing with food safety, animal health and welfare, plant health and consumer protection. Together, they aim to:
- Strengthen relationships, enable and promote collaboration and networking at strategic and operational level between competent authorities of participating countries
- Exchange information, increase knowledge and adopt best practices:
- on ensuring implementation and enforcing European legislation as well as international and national rules by the business operators in the participating countries,
- on ensuring safety by regular control, inspection, sampling and analysis,
- for the management of Agencies, including operational challenges, improvement of efficiency and effectiveness
- Meet evolving needs by identifying important drivers and common risks, risk assessment and risk management needs on topics of mutual interest and/or EU relevance