Food Control Consultants Ltd, ÓLAFUR SVEINN ODDGEIRSS0N

- CURRICULUM VITAE -

I. General Information

Name and address:

Ólafur Sveinn Oddgeirsson,

North Bank House, High Street Ayton,

Eyemouth,

TD14 5QR

Scotland, UK

	Phone:	+44 18907 81928 or +44 771 31 22 333
	Fax:	+44 8701355996
	email: olafur@food-control.com	Website: www.food-control.com

	Date of birth:	9. January 1951
	Nationality:	Icelandic / British
	Marital status:	Married.
	Children:	Five, born: 1970, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1989
	Education:	1972-1977: Veterinary studies, Vet. College, Hanover, Germany - Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover, Deutschland.
	Postgrad. studies:	1978-1981, food legislation, meat inspection, food science Vet. College Hannover Germany, title: Dr. Med. Vet.
	Languages:	Read, write and speak: Icelandic, German, English, Danish (read and speak)

Language skills : (Mark 1 to 5 for competence, where 1 is the highest)

Language	Passive	Spoken	Written
Icelandic	1	1	1
German	1	1	1
English	1	1	1
Danish	2	2	4

Membership of professional bodies:

1984 - 1986, Editor of the Icelandic veterinary journal; 1990 to 1993, member of the "mastitis group" of the International Dairy Federation (A2). ; 1991 to 1992 President of the Icelandic Veterinary. Association; 1992 to 1997, The Icelandic National editor for the Acta Veterinarica Scandinavica; From 1978, Member of the Icelandic Veterinary Association and president from 1991-1992; From 1999 also member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

Other skills :

Has attended an Open University course in computer programming, "an object oriented approach", ID: M206, 1998, and, at the FDDI Institute in Mechelen Belgium, a seminar on LINUX, a UNIX-compatible operating system. Training in installation, configuration and administration of the that system.

Present position: Managing director, Food Control Consultants Ltd.

Years within the company: 8

II. Some key qualifications :

A. General:

20 + years of experiencing in upgrading of EU agri-food business to EU standards, auditing of food establishment, verification of compliance, elaboration of plans and programs for upgrading.
Thorough knowledge of the Aquis Communautaire in the field of Veterinary Public Health and Animal health.
Introduction of HACCP and GMP systems in food establishments. Lectures and seminars in that field.
Providing software (databases) for assessment of agri-food businesses - laptops - hand held devices.
Assessment of official supervision of the food industry including legal framework, enforcement agencies, laboratories and checks on imports. Providing transpositions of EU rules and regulations and framework law in the veterinary field. Numerous lectures on EU veterinary rules.
Advice to government on compliance with EU third country rules and regulations concerning export of food of animal origin to the European Union. Several lectures on EU import regime.
Animal identification systems and veterinary border posts, tracing and tracking of animals and products of animal origin.

B. Specific experience

Country – time from - to	Specific experience
Argentina, 2003 and 2004.	Assessment of several beef slaughterhouses. Lectures on EU veterinary legislation for government officials and industry representatives.
Belgium (ESA-EFTA) 1992-1999.	Responsible for evaluation of food processing establishments, including fish and fish products in Iceland and Norway.
Belgium EU DG SANCO 2006-2007 Key Expert	Implementation of DG SANCO project on identification, handling and disposal of animal by-products under the “Better Training for Safer Food” initiative
Belgium DG Enlargement, TAXIEX office. 2002 – 2004. Team Leader	Assessment of improvements in establishment processing food of animal origin, slaughterhouses, meat processing plants, dairy plants and fish processing plants (Peer reviews).
Belgium DG Enlargement, TAXIEX office. 1999 – 2006. Key Expert	Assessment of veterinary systems applied in the 12 countries concerned, development of strategy for transposition and implementation. Several lectures on EU veterinary legislation in each country.
Belgium DG Enlargement, TAXIEX office. 2006-2007 Key Expert	Same assessment of veterinary rules and regulations, including lectures on veterinary public health (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR of Macedonia, Albania)
Belgium DG Enlargement, TAXIEX office. 2003 – today. Key Expert	Regional training program for food and feed. Lectures in several new Member States and Candidate Countries.
China 2005; Key Expert	Lectures on SPS agreement and EU food safety legislation (EU DG Trade)
Cyprus 2000 – 2002; Team Leader	Evaluation of upgrading of two large dairy plants. Regular visits for 2 years
FYROM, 2006; Team Leader	Framework project on assessment of long term BIP’s in fYROM. Make recommendations for design and prepare tender dossiers for following supply tender
Iceland Oct 2001 – Nov 2002 (1 year project); Key Expert.	Field study on animal identification, registration and movement control.
Iceland 1999 – 2006 – several times every year.	Numerous lectures on EU veterinary public health. Evaluation of food establishments. Elaboration of reports on EU food safety laws, on reference laboratories and on BSE.
Kazakhstan 2006; Team Leader	EU project, assessment of the Kazakhstan veterinary regime. Training of veterinary officials, EU rules on veterinary public health and general veterinary supervision.
Malta Regular visits from 2001 – 2004.	Created the transpositions of the complete veterinary legislation for Malta's membership to the EU). Elaboration of draft legal acts for the whole veterinary chapter including food safety, animal welfare, zootechnics and veterinary medicinal products.
North Cyprus 2007 Key Expert	TAIEX mission to develop a strategy for transposition and implementation of the EU veterinary legislation. . Assessment of the country's future needs for veterinary and veterinary public health (food safety) technical assistance. Prepare Terms of Reference.
Russian Federation 2007; Senior Short Term Expert.	Approximation of EU and RF legislative and methodological basis in Sanitary and Phytosanitary area, Russia Federation. Lectures on EU veterinary systems, animal health, veterinary public health, auditing and import regime.
UK 2001	Participating in Food and Mouth Disease campaign in the Scottish Borders during the last outbreak

IIII. Employment record:

Date :	From July 1999
Location	Ayton, Eyemouth, Scotland.
Company	Food Control Consultants Ltd.,
Position	Managing director
Description	Responsible for day to day running of the company. Clients are governments of individual countries and individual companies for advise on upgrading of EU agri-food business to EU standards, auditing of food establishment, verification of compliance, elaboration of plans and programmes for upgrading. Lectures and seminars on that issue.

Date :	1992 to 1999
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Company	EFTA Surveillance Authority,
Position	Senior Officer
Description	As Senior Officer of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, in Brussels, was responsible for the supervision of the uniform application and implementation in the EFTA States of a number of EU Directives covering fish and fish products, fresh meat, meat products, milk and milk products, residues in food of animal origin, fresh poultry meat, animal health issues, and other relevant decisions and recommendations in these fields. Lead inspector in numerous inspection missions to the EFTA States and observer in several inspection missions to the EU Member States in co-operation with the Food and Veterinary Office of the EU (FVO). Participated in negotiations on the EEA Agreement in the veterinary field. Responsible for supervising the introduction of border inspection posts in Iceland and Norway, as these countries became part of the EU's external veterinary border. Inspected all the selected sites in 1998 and 1999 and evaluated the construction plans and progress made.

Date :	1982 to 1992
Location	Reykjavik, Iceland
Company	Institute of Dairy Research. Central dairy laboratory
Position	Director
Description	Responsible to the board of directors for the financial and daily running of the company. Number of employers: 8, including 5 with university education. Annual turnover of ca. 300 000, pound sterling. Planned and established the laboratory on behalf of the Icelandic dairy industry. As the director of the institute, responsible for mastitis research and control in Iceland. Participating in providing a continuing education for veterinarians, the personnel of the dairy industry and dairy farmers, covering the general aspects of environmental hygiene and education concerning mastitis control and protection.

Date :	1981 to 1982
Location	Iceland
Company	Institute of Environmental Health
Position	Project manager
Description	Investigating the conditions in the dairy plants in Iceland. Reporting to the Ministry of Health.

Date :	1978 to 1981
Location	Hannover, Germany
Company	Institute of Meat Inspection and Food hygiene of the Veterinary College
Position	Scientific assistant
Description	Responsible for the detection of residues in meat and meat products. Participating in the training of veterinary students within the field of meat inspection and food control.

IV. Other activities:

1985 August to January 1986,

In Edinburgh, Scotland, carrying out research into genetic traits linked to immune response to mastitis pathogens in cattle.

1984 - 1986,

Editor of the Icelandic veterinary journal.

1987 - 1990,

Project manager, mastitis project in North-Iceland. Impact of environmental factors on mastitis.

1990 to 1993,

Member of the "mastitis group" of the International Dairy Federation (A2).

During 1990's,

Project manager, establishing a computer network for the dairy plants in Iceland. Assistant system administrator (Unix system) for the network until leaving for Brussels.

1991 to 1992

President of the Icelandic Veterinary. Association.

1991 to 1993,

Tutor for two laboratory scientists successfully obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Science at the Technical University of Iceland.

1992 to 1997,

The Icelandic National editor for the Acta Veterinarica Scandinavica.

V. Publications

1981, Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur meßtechnischen Erfassung von Fleischpreßflächen; Archiv für Lebensmittelhygiene. 1982, Report: The dairy industry in Iceland, the state of the industry and conditions for milk production; published by the National Institute of Environmental Health.

A.1984 Mastitis, aetiology and consequences (Júgubólga, orsakir og afleiðingar): Published by the Institute of Dairy Research.

B.1984, Cell count in milk and mastitis; Icelandic dairy journal

1986, Tissue types in cattle. The Icelandic veterinary journal.

1988, Oddgeirsson, O., P.S. Simpson, A.L.G. Morgan D.S. Ross & R.L. Spooner. Relationship between the bovine major histocompatibility complex (BoLA), erythrocyte markers and susceptibility; Animal Genetics

1988, Cells in the Milk, Icelandic dairy journal

1990, Simpson, P.S., O. Oddgeirsson, J.V. Jonmundsson R. Oliver, Association between the bovine major histo- compatibility complex (BoLA) and milk production in Icelandic dairy cattle; Animal genetics.

1990, Few remarks concerning infectious mastitis; Icelandic Vet. Journal.

1994, Eiríkur Jónsson, Ólafur Oddgeirsson og Jón Viðar Jónmundsson: Factors effecting somatic cell counts in Icelandic cows. Búvísindi 8: 27-40

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