Welcome to the Health &
Consumer Protection DG

Our job is to help make Europe's citizens healthier, safer and more confident.

Over the years the European Union has established EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health.

The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General has the task of keeping these laws up to date.
It is national, regional or even local governments in EU countries who actually apply the EU's health and consumer protection laws. It is their job to make sure traders, manufacturers and food producers in their country observe the rules. Nonetheless, part of our job is to check that this is really happening and that the rules are being applied properly in all EU countries.

Our work is divided into three main areas: