Overall objective of the NFA’s CIB action is to protect Georgian consumers. The specific objective is to establish an effective food safety, veterinary, and sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) management system in Georgia approximated with the respective EU system. This requires an organization-wide transformational change to be enacted over a period of several years. This has been facilitated by the CIB programme and the CIB team of experts functioning as a development unit of the NFA. The main aim of CIB Phase 3 is to support the NFA policies regarding institutional development leading to aligned systems between Georgia and the EU as already mentioned in the Comprehensive Strategy and Legislative Approximation Programme in Food Safety.

• Increased level of knowledge and practical skills of the staff of NFA and other key official bodies operating in the food safety and SPS sector
• Increased public awareness of food safety and SPS issues among conusmers, processors, and farmers and strong private sector
• NFA having adequate IT capacity to perform its institutional tasks and responsibilities efficiently
• NFA developed functional working environment and management process
• Legal approximation of the Georgian SPS legislation is systematically facilitated

• At least 75% of food producers and processors and 50% of consumers surveyed in 3 annual surveys are aware about basic food safety and SPS requirements by the end of the Programme
• 100% of the 4IT systems and databases introduced by the CIB 1 and 2 and CBA-G programmes are available and functioning as well as the QMS IT system from the CIB phase 3
• 100% of the 8 NFA regional and 3 municipality offices newly renovated by WB, CIB 1, and CBA-G actions are fully operational as well as the 23 smaller municipality NFA offices and storages from CIB 3
• 100% of the new Georgian SPS legislation being developed according to the approximation plan is fully approximated with respective EU law