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From: 
 (SANTE) 
Sent: 
29 March 2017 17:48 
To: 
 (SANTE) 
Subject: 
FW:  Fact finding mission to France on internet sales of food, visit to 
Amazon’s Prime Now site in Paris  
 
 
From: 
 (SANTE)  
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:33 PM 
To: 
@amazon.lu' 
Cc: 
 (SANTE); 
 (SANTE); 
 
(SANTE); 
@dgccrf.finances.gouv.fr'; 
@dgccrf.finances.gouv.fr' 
Subject: Fact finding mission to France on internet sales of food, visit to Amazon’s 
Prime Now site in Paris  
 
Dear 

 
Thank you for your email to my colleagues and for accepting their visit to 
your premises in Paris during the fact finding mission concerning the 
official controls on internet sales of food we have carried out recently  in 
France.  
Besides the opportunity to better understand the development of the 
online food sales and related controls, we also took note of the challenges 
you are encountering and the proposals you made. These have been 
forwarded to the relevant units dealing with policy/legislation on the topics 
raised by you and will for sure be subject to our internal discussions. Our 
Directorate F is  mainly dealing with audits/missions in Member States and 
non EU countries and as this is a government to government activity our 
main interlocutors are the competent authorities in the countries. As 
internet sales of food is a very interesting and prospering business it is 
good to have a contact point at one of the key players in this business and 
we will very likely come back to your offer  for a meeting or for further 
information in the future. 
 
Our fact finding activities in selected Member States will finish in the 
second half of the year and an overview report will be published 
afterwards.  
 
Kind regards 
 
 
 
 
European Commission  
 




 
 
 
  
Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) 
Directorate F, Health and Food Audit and Analysis 
Unit F1 Food  
Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland 
C15DA39  
Tel     +353 
 
,  int.: 
  
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@ec.europa.eu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From: 

i  [mailto:
@amazon.lu]  
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:57 PM 
To: 
 
 (SANTE); 
 
 (SANTE); 
 
 
(SANTE) 
Cc: 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
@Paris.gouv.fr; 
@dgcccrf.finances.gouv.fr; 
@dgccrf.finances gouv.fr 
Subject: RE: EU Commission Meeting notes
 
Dear 
 
,   
 
Thank you for taking the time to visit Amazon’s Prime Now site in Paris last Friday. We 
enjoyed meeting with you and your colleaguees from DGCCRF and the Czech competent 
authority.  
We were particularly glad to have had the opportunity to constructively discuss avenues 
for further harmonization and simplification in the framework of existing EU Food 
regulations and their national implementations.  
 
As we scale up our food related operations across Europe we welcome homogenous 
standards and guidelines across the EU. We believe this will greatly stimulate 
competition, improve efficiencies and benefit consumers and business operators alike. 
In this context we would like to reiterate, that a lack of harmonization in the area of 
food temperature controls in business to consumers transactions and the absence of 
readily accessible food registration evidence are particular matters on which we seek a 
genuine dialogue to identify solutions for the benefit of alll.  
 
If you require more information to complete  your report or would prefer a follow up 
meeting at your offices in Brussels or Ireland  please do let us know.  
 
I will be your point of contact within Amazon going forward. Do not hesitate to contact 
me if I can be of any further assistance. 
 
Kind regards,  

 
  
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