Codex Committee on General Principles
(Host Government - France)

The Codex Committee on General Principles (CCGP):

• deals with such procedural and general matters as are referred to it by the Codex Alimentarius Commission including the establishment of principles which define the purpose and scope of the Codex Alimentarius and the nature of Codex standards;
• the development of mechanisms to address any economic impact statements concerning possible implications for their economies of some of the individual standards or some provisions thereof;
• establishment of Code of Ethics for International Trade.