National Codex Committee

The National Committee of the Codex Alimentarius (CNC), an interdepartmental entity coordinating the work of the Codex Alimentarius established by decree no. 2-03-140 of 6 hija 1425 (17 January 2005), has as its fundamental mission to advise the government on the implications of the various problems of standardization and food safety that arise in the general context of the work carried out by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and its various bodies subsidiary.
As such, it is responsible for following very closely the various stages of defining Codex standards so that Morocco’s legitimate interests are defended and taken into account in the process of setting certain global or regional standards.

Indeed, the work of this committee constitutes for Morocco and especially for the administrations responsible for drawing up and applying the regulations on food control an essential source of technical standards which can be used both as Scientific basis for the preparation of national standards and as a reference for Morocco’s trade with third countries.

 This latter vocation of Codex has been confirmed even more with the opening of markets under the World Trade Organization agreements. Indeed, Codex standards are considered as a reference base to facilitate international trade and to settle any dispute or trade dispute between the member countries of this organization.