The bilateral German-Russian project had the objective to provide technical assistance and advice to Russian Ministeries and Institutions who are responsible for food safety and consumer protection. The main beneficiary on the Russian side was the Federal Service for Consumer Protection and Human well-being (Rospotrebnadzor).

Further partners in the implementation of the project were the working group on technical regulation of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the National Institute for Technical Regulation (NITR), the Federal Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology (FGUS) and the Institute for Food of the Russian Academy for Medicine.

In addition, the project was collaborating with the territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzor in the region Perm and the municipality of Togliatti in Oblast Samara on the development of consumer advice offices. The project programme focused on giving advice on Food Safety legislation in conjunction with the Law for Technical Regulation, on food inspection and the improvement of consumer protection by enlargement of the consumer information and consultation.

Following the adoption of the executive law for Technical Regulation by DUMA the Project provided comprehensive statements on the following drafts:

• Technical Regulation on food safety (basic law)
• Technical Regulation on meat (Regulation)
• Technical Regulation on food labelling
• Technical Regulation on food for infants and young children
• Technical Regulation on food additives

The project initiated and established a professional co-operation between the Food Institute of the Russian Academy for Medicine (RAMN), the Federal Centre for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Russian Federation (FGUS) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) covering the methodology and the scientific research on risk assessment related to biological safety, food safety, safety of substances and product safety.