1. Maarten Steeghs Senior Advisor Agriculture and Nature Division
Brussels, June

2. Organisational structure
Inspector General
Deputy Inspector General
Director
Staff department
Director
Office for Risk Assessment & Research
Director
Customer services Division
Chief Inspector
Veterinary & Imports Division
Chief Inspector
Veterinary & Imports Division
Chief Inspector
Agriculture & Nature Division
Chief Inspector
Consumer & Safety Division
Director
Criminal Investigation Division

3. Role of NVWA mission: • safe food and consumer products
• healthy animals and plants; animal welfare;
including primary production and nature
main tasks:
 risk assessment and communication
 supervision: inspections, audits
 enforcement
Staff: 2100

4. Experience/expertise
Organisation NVWA:
Risk assessment on IAS
Pathway analyses of IAS
Surveillance of IAS
Communication on IAS
Implementation of rules and regulations
Eradication/control measures against IAS
Enforcing rules and regulations on nature and biodiversity

5. implementation and enforcing rules and regulations
Personal
- implementation of eradication measures against IAS.
implementation and enforcing rules and regulations
on nature and biodiversity.
- implementation of rules and regulations, including
eradication and containment measures, on plant
health (in the natural and semi natural
environment).
in the past, member of different EPPO panels and
EU workgroups

6. Area of contribution Issue 3 Management of Invasive Alien Species
Main interest:
Effective and feasible measures, considering human, legislative, animal and environmental factors.

7. Thank you for your attention7