European Food Law Association (EFLA)

Introduction: The European Food Law Association (EFLA) is an international non-profit making organisation that has as its essential goal to study and to promote Food Law, as well as to contribute to its development and to its international harmonisation under conditions taking into account at the same time its specificity, its interdisciplinary nature and its special function, the protection of the consumers.

The European Association for Food Law is a non-governmental organisation under Belgian law. It was established on 4 May 1973 at the Institut d'Etudes européennes (Institute of European Studies) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB), in the course of an Assembly which brought together numerous specialists in the law and the sciences of Food from different countries of Western Europe. A statutes project had been established by Mr Alain Gérard, former Secretary General of the EFLA. The statutes were adopted by the inaugural Assembly, then approved by Royal Decree on 8 October 1973, attributing to the EFLA a legal personality under Belgian law. In order to bring the EFLA statutes in line with the new European rules on non-profit making international organisations, these statutes were amended in 2010.