Agencia de Información y Control Alimentarios | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | January 1, 2014 |
Jurisdiction | Spain |
Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
Employees | 68 (2019)[1] |
Annual budget | € 9.3 million, 2023[2] |
Agency executive |
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Parent agency | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
Website | www.aica.gob.es |
The Food Information and Control Agency (Spanish: Agencia de Información y Control Alimentarios, AICA) is the Spanish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food autonomous agency responsible for managing the information and control systems of the olericulture, dairy and other markets that the Ministry determines; the control of compliance with the Food Chain Improvement Act of 2013 and the official control of Protected Designations of Origin and Geographical Indications whose territorial scope extends to more than one autonomous community, before the commercialization.[3]