General Food Law

• Address by Mr Robert J. Coleman, Director General for Health and Consumer Protection, "The US, Europe, and Precaution: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of the Management of risk in a Complex World", Grand Hotel-Bruges, 11 - 12 January 2002
• Address by David Byrne on the Precautionary Principle in the domain of human health and food safety - The Economist Conferences "Colloque sur le principe de Précaution organisé par The Economist avec la collaboration de l’Institut Servier", Paris, 9th November 2000

 Animal Nutrition

• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, Brussels, 10 July 2001
• Remarks by David Byrne to the European Parliament, Committee on Fisheries, Tuesday, 28th November 2000

 Labelling & Nutrition

• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, delivered by Paola Testori Coggi, Director, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General "Food Information and Health Claims" European Voice Conference, 25 November 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection : "Labelling ingredient of food quality" Round Table on Food and Agriculture, Brussels, 26 July 2001
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection : "Labelling of foodstuffs - Key for consumers" Round table on Food Quality, Safety and Production, Paris, 11 July 2001

 Biotechnology

• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "GM Food and Feed", Plenary Session - European Parliament Strasbourg, 2 July 2002
• Speech of David Byrne at the European Voice Conference "Farm to fork" on Risk versus Benefit, Brussels, 22 November 2001
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "A European approach to food safety and GMOs" - National Press Club, Washington D.C., Washington, 9 October 2001
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "New Technologies in Agriculture" -Biotechnology- Informal Agriculture Council, Alden Biesen, 18 September 2001
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Proposal for a regulation on GM Food and Feed - European Parliament, Brussels, 11 September 2001
• Speech of Commissioner David Byrne: ‘The right to know about genetically modified food’, 25 July 2001
• Speech of David Byrne: ‘Trust through transparency’, Biovision World Life Sciences Forum - Lyon, 10 February 2001
• Speech of David Byrne at the conference on ‘Genetics and the future of Europe’, 7 November 2000

 Chemical Safety

• Speaking note of David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "Nitrofurans: monitoring plans and results", Agriculture Council, 18 March 2003
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, Brussels, 10 July 2001
• Remarks by David Byrne to the European Parliament, Committee on Fisheries, Tuesday, 28th November 2000

 Biological Safety

• Speaking note : "Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)" - Agriculture Council, 18 March 2003
• Speaking Note : on "BSE" - Agriculture Council, Brussels, 28 January 2003
• Speaking Note : on "BSE" - Agriculture Council, Brussels, 28 November 2002
• Speech : "BSE" - Agriculture Council, Luxembourg, 27 June 2002
• Speech : "Latest developments in relation to BSE" - Agriculture Council, Brussels, 18 February 2002
• Speaking Note : "BSE" - Agriculture Council, 19 December 2001
• Speech : "Latest developments in relation to BSE" - Agriculture Council, Brussels, 20 November 2001
• Speech : "Latest developments on BSE" - Agriculture Council, Luxembourg, 23 October 2001
• Speech : "The importance of having comprehensive safety legislation on BSE in place" - Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the CEFTA Countries, Bratislava, 13 September 2001
• Speaking note : on "BSE" - Agriculture Council, 23 July 2001
• Speaking note : on "Testing for BSE in Third Countries" - Agriculture Council, Luxembourg, 19 June 2001
• Speaking note : on "BSE" - Agriculture Council, Luxembourg, 19 June 2001
• Speech : "Risk analysis - Risk communication: 'The Decision Maker's Dilemma'" - Joint WHO/FAO/OIE Conference on BSE and its Risks, Paris, 13 June 2001
• Speaking note : on "BSE" - Agriculture Council, Brussels, 22 May 2001
• Speaking note : to the European Parliament Plenary Meeting, 2-3 May 2001: "Recommendation for second reading on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a European Parliament and Council Regulation laying down the rules for the prevention , and control of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies", 2 May 2001
• Speech : "The Commission policy on the health aspects of BSE" - Address to COPA, Brussels, 9 February 2001
• Speech : "Latest developments in relation to BSE", (BSE debate) - European Parliament, Brussels, 1 February 2001
• Speech : to the Agricultural Committee of the European Parliament on the "Latest developments in relation to BSE", Brussels, 23 January 2001
• Speech : to the European Parliament on "BSE", 15 November 2000
• Speech : to the European Parliament on "BSE" - Supplementary Speaking Note on Meat and Bone Meal, Parliamentary session, Strasbourg, 15 November 2000

 Controls

• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, "GM Food and Feed", Plenary Session - European Parliament Strasbourg, 2 July 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, on 11 January 2002: "New challenges ahead to ensure food safety: enlargement and upgrading food controls", 9th East-West Agricultural Forum - Green Week Berlin, 10-12 January 2002

 Enlargement

• "Enlargement - the final lap", speech of Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, European Parliament Brussels, 9 October 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection "The Single Market - delivering the promise", Annual Assembly of Consumer Associations, Brussels, 8 October 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection "Food Safety and Enlargement of the European Union", European Business Summit, Brussels, 6 June 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, "New challenges ahead to ensure food safety: enlargement and upgrading food controls", 9th East-West Agricultural Forum - Green Week, Berlin, 12 January 2002
• Speech by David Byrne, Food Safety and Enlargement, Swedish Presidency Seminar on the implementation of the White Paper on Food Safety in an Enlarged EU, Brussels, 21 May 2001