The medium-term priorities for 2009-11, which Cedefop is currently formulating, are a good opportunity to address the strategic balance of its operations between 'open source' provision and contributing and supporting implementation of EU VET policy priorities.

As the enrichment feeding may lead to preferences, to ensure that the animals receive a balanced diet it is advisable to feed the standard diet first thing in the morning when the animals are hungry and have no alternative.

1. The procedure provided for in this Article shall be followed where a substance other than vitamins or minerals, or an ingredient containing a substance other than vitamins or minerals, is added to foods or used in the manufacture of foods under conditions that would result in the ingestion of amounts of this substance greatly exceeding those reasonably expected to be ingested under normal conditions of consumption of a balanced and varied diet and/or would otherwise represent a potential risk to consumers.

It is also a problem of insufficient income to buy food, of poor health in regard to producing and consuming food and not having an appropriate balance of vitamins, minerals and available food.

The rapporteur stressed the fact that, as part of multi-annual national control plans, it was important to "acknowledge and respect the diversity and cultural and economic significance of regional and local traditions and customs with respect to food production and taste" or in other words to seek "the appropriate balance between consumer safety and consumer choice", especially as the "promotion and support of typical food products from different local traditions represents a very decisive way to give consumers healthy foods, and at the same time to help the economies of many rural areas".

Instead it establishes, in Article 8, a procedure to be used in cases where a substance other than vitamins or minerals, or an ingredient containing a substance other than vitamins or minerals, is added to foods or used in the manufacture of foods under conditions that would result in the ingestion of amounts of this substance greatly exceeding those reasonably expected to be ingested under normal conditions of consumption of a balanced and varied diet and/or would otherwise represent a potential risk to consumers.