Commission Notice providing guidance on food safety management systems for food retail activities, including food donations 2020/C 199/01

IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMISSION NOTICE providing guidance on food safety management systems for food retail activities, including food donations (2020/C 199/01) 1. INTRODUCTION In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), all food business operators (FBOs) shall comply with the general hygiene requirements laid down in the Annexes I (primary production and associated operations) or II (other FBOs) of the Regulation. In addition, Article 5 provides that FBOs, other than primary producers, must put in place, implement and maintain a permanent procedure or procedures based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles. The general hygiene requirements, together with specific hygiene requirements laid down in Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) are considered as prerequisite programmes (PRPs) (3), which, together with the procedures based on the HACCP principles, must result in an integrated Food Safety Management System (FSMS) for each food business as explained in the ‘Commission Notice on the implementation of food safety management systems covering prerequisite programs (PRPs) and procedures based on the HACCP principles, including the facilitation/flexibility on the implementation in certain food businesses’ (4), adopted in 2016 (‘the...