Vacancy at Executive Agency for Health and Consumers

The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers invites applications for positions as contract agents:

Project Officer - Health programme (Function Group IV)

The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (hereinafter referred to as the EAHC) implements the second Public Health Programme, adopted by Decision No 1350/2007/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 October 2007, the Consumer Programme, adopted by Decision 1926/2006/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on 18 December 2006, and the Better Training for Safer Food initiative, measured by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and Directive 2000/29/EC.
Excluding tasks related to programme evaluation, monitoring of legislation, or any other action which could come under the exclusive competence of the Commission, the EAHC is entrusted with the following tasks:

• Managing all the phases in the lifetime of specific projects, in the context of implementing the programme on public health and the necessary checks to that end, taking the relevant decisions where the Commission has empowered it to do so;
• Adopting the instruments of budget execution for revenue and expenditure and carrying out, where the Commission has empowered it to do so, all the operations necessary for the management of the Community programme and, in particular, those linked to the award of contracts and grants;
• Providing logistical, scientific and technical support, in particular by organising technical meetings (management of expert working groups), preparatory studies, seminars or conferences.
  
• Ensuring a high level of consumer protection, through improved information on consumer-related data, better consultation and better representation of consumers’ interests, and enhancing effective application of consumer protection rules through cooperation between authorities and key consumer organisations, disseminating information, education and dispute resolution.
• Managing Commission's initiative "Better Training for Safer Food", which sets a Community training strategy in the areas of food law, feed law, animal health and animal welfare rules, as well as plant health rules.

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