Regulation & Compliance
Our Regulation & Compliance Development services are executed by is a specialized external stakeholder support department that that plays a critical role in ensuring that Food Crops sub-sector players comply with relevant laws, regulations, and standards.
The primary objective of R & C is to is to oversee compliance with regulations, codes of conduct, and standards that relate to the sub-sector.
R & C plays a vital role in promoting responsible and sustainable practices in the Food Crops subsector By ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, codes of conduct, and standards, R & C helps to protect the stakeholders, promote fair labour practices, and ensure the quality and safety of food crops and food crops produce.
Functions
- Promotion of best practices by regulating the production, transportation, processing, marketing, grading, storage, collection, and warehousing of food crops and food produce.
- Coordination of development and enforcement of regulations governing scheduled food crops.
- Registration and licensing of dealers in food crops value chains
- Facilitation of international trade through export and import clearance
- Enforcement of standards in the food crops sub-sector in order to ensure food safety
- Conduction of inspections and compliance audit for standards in stakeholder premises.
- Development and review of the food crops produce Standards and Codes of Practices in collaboration with the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)
- Carrying out appropriate measures to ensure safety in the domestic food supply.
- Participation in the formulation of policies and guidelines for scheduled food crops.
- Capacity build County governments’ officers on matters relating to regulations and compliance to enable them to discharge their duties effectively
- Checking and evaluation of conformity of the food product imports into the country.
- Promote self-regulation among the various categories of dealers along the value chain in line with relevant regulations