ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPERVISION OF THE VETERINARY INSPECTION OVER FOOD SAFETY IN POLAND – SELECTED ISSUES Cover Image

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPERVISION OF THE VETERINARY INSPECTION OVER FOOD SAFETY IN POLAND – SELECTED ISSUES
ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPERVISION OF THE VETERINARY INSPECTION OVER FOOD SAFETY IN POLAND – SELECTED ISSUES

Author(s): Ewa Bonusiak
Subject(s): Agriculture, Health and medicine and law, EU-Legislation, Administrative Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: administration; supervision; food safety; veterinary inspection; consumer protection;

Summary/Abstract: Legal sciences, raising food safety as the subject of research, focus mainly on striving to ensure sufficiently effective legal regulations and the system of bodies controlling and supervising the food market that determine the correct health quality of food. One such body is the Veterinary Inspection. And while it focuses in its tasks mainly on the protection of animal health, it directly and indirectly affects the maintenance of food health requirements. Supervision exercised by the said Inspection plays an important role in ensuring a high level of protection of human life and health, and also protects the economic interests of the consumer. These two goals are basic. Additional objectives are protection of the reliability of commercial transactions, ensuring the free movement of food in the European Union, protection of animal health and living conditions and protection of the environment. They are of particular importance for determining acceptable limits of competences that can be entrusted to public administration bodies, including the said Inspection. The article presents the activities of the Veterinary Inspection to protect food safety and selected executive forms that it uses for this purpose. These types of entities are equipped with such forms of activity because they fulfill a protective function in the public administration system. However, this function implies the obligation to protect many different values desired individually, as well as maintain (ensure) objectively desired states of affairs, phenomena and processes.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 23-36
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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