ANNUAL REPORT 2022 | 9 VISION AND MISSION The vision of the SGL is to substantially contribute to the improvement of quality of life by providing reliable and high- quality services through the organisation’s continuous development and excellence. Based on this vision, the SGL has been continuously widening its mission to include the provision of high-quality services and independent opinions to the Authorities and the citizens, through innovative administration procedures and technology. The SGL’s motto, “Excellence – The foundation to a better quality of life”, has been guiding the organisation, based on its vision and mission, towards the following strategic objectives: 1. To safeguard public health and the environment, citizen’s safety and consumers’ rights, mainly through prevention. 2. To facilitate fair trade and enhance competitiveness. 3. To respond promptly and reliably to new obligations, emerging problems and crisis incidents. 4. To promote applied research to prevent or solve emerging / existing problems. 5. To contribute to the legislative process and policy making. 6. To strengthen networking and enhance expertise. 7. To scientifically support the judicial and police authorities. To fulfill its mission, the SGL operates at many levels: y It ensures quality, reliability and accountability through its accreditation by EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and by embedding the value of quality at all levels of the organisation, while implementing the model of the Common Assessment Framework Programme (CAF) with benchmarking towards excellence. y It promotes new approaches at managerial and technical level, and at the elaboration of its services, while keeping abreast of European and international developments and requirements. y It collaborates with all public sectors and respective EU Organisations and Committees. y It continuously develops and implements: – new preventive and targeted national control programmes, – a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, which reflects upon the design of monitoring, surveillance, control and research programmes with added value and synergistic efficacy, and – risk assessment for food/ water and environmental safety (chemical, microbiological, biological). y It enhances productivity by implementing modern technologies and multi-residual analytical methods by fully utilising the human resources, equipment and available financial resources. y It attracts young scientists with high academic qualifications through the implementation of applied research projects while utilising local and EU funds to solve existing problems and prevent emerging risks. y It strengthens international networking and collaboration with universities, European research centres and relevant bodies to promote the exchange of scientists, joint research projects, technology transfer and other common actions towards development. y It contributes to academic activities by investing in capacity building of post-graduate students who undertake research projects at the SGL in collaboration with European and Cyprus universities. y It invests on staff training and expertise. y It disseminates information and knowledge through educational programmes to the relevant stakeholders and to the public at large. y It provides expertise and advice and it works as a technical consultant/ advisor for public authorities or as a third member. y It facilitates the execution of a wide range of laboratory tests as well as the solution to complex scientific and technical issues, through its modern laboratory equipment and its well-trained staff.
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