 My name is Sally Hoffer and luckily I've had a number of different positions in the area of food safety and in my current role I have been responsible for sustainable food systems. From production to consumption, our Dutch food system has a significant impact on the environment and on food safety. So we have a lot of challenges and my teams especially focus on food safety and achieving food security. I have been working also at the Dutch Food Safety Authority and in that context I met Rob Thelen who was a former chair assistant of the CCCF and who talked with great inspiration about codecs and stressed the importance of this work. And since 2020 I can proudly say I myself have been actively involved by starting working in the Department of Agriculture and Food Quality. Well I can describe it as I've heard it but I've heard it has a really constructive spirit and we achieved results by open discussions and willingness to compromise. But in this committee we established maximum limits for contaminants in food and feed and in such a way they ensure public health. And furthermore we provide guidance via codes of practices and with these codes of practices our food operators in the food chain can get guidance so that maximum levels can be respected. And the food which comes available is consumer safe. But at the same time we need to establish these maximum limits but also ensuring not too much quantities of food are being wasted and therefore we need a good balance. So ensuring public health and not more trade restrictive than necessary. So it takes sometimes a lot of discussion in our committee to reach this consensus between all the regions of the world. So also hence my praise again for this committee for the willingness to seek good compromises. Well I'm very excited about this agenda and it is quite full and well, endeavourous. And it has a lot of it has a variety of contaminants to be discussed we are ranging from catmium and chocolates after toxins and cereals, methyl mercury and fish and even radio nuclides in food. And at this moment we have eight items in the step process, and also we will look at several discussion papers that may lead to new work in 2022. And I expect we make some good progress in the same constructive manner as the years before. Well, the virtual nature in itself is making it so much different. We discussed it with the coded secretariat and our deep Dutch team and, well, the positive side it is more inclusive, we bringing in much more delegates than we can ever before, because of well traveling restraints. But on the other hand, we lack some sociability, cheer and liveliness in the discussions, and some honorable members also have to miss their night sleep to join us. But above all we have to deal with time limitations and the opportunities that physical meetings offer so informal gatherings are not getting done. And we are not discussing critical issues and making proposed to the plenary in the walking, the walking areas. So the dynamics will be much more different from the physical meetings and our approach therefore is also different. The difference is you can't connect that easily. So you have to really have your ears and eyes open to everything which happens on the screen, and but you can't read body language. So that is much different for me than in other settings which I've had as a chair. And it is also challenging because this is a large number and which and there is a cutoff in numbers when you can ask specifically to people to give some comments virtually, but when you have so many members in a virtual meeting that is not possible. So hopefully, our members will speak up when I need to have to say something because I can't always read them. The Code Secretary is also virtual for us so that is a constraint, but they have the most experienced with all the rules and the procedural workings. So I rely definitely on them and I have a technical staff. And for me that is important for the content to comprehend it better. And they give me hints in how the discussion actually proceed and these people are in the room with me. We are actually motivated to continue this this important work but also do it with others, because it helps also others to meet regionally and intensively with their neighboring countries in a setting as codex. And so we're hoping when this pandemic is getting better that we can continue co hosting. And in that regard, to be in the 2022 in a co hosting country, but if that doesn't work out you are all invited to the Netherlands. First time delegates I would say that it is actually an honor to be identified as a representative of your country at codex and it's completely to be okay, had to be nervous when taking the floor in this virtual setting. And it takes some time to get practice in making intervention so we are making also this a little bit easier and I advise you all to join in the first time delegate session, which is held on Friday the 30th of April. We will also be there. We have to reckon with the limitation of such a virtual meeting and therefore I kindly encourage the codex members to come prepared by focusing on the recommendation in a different working papers. And I would like to emphasize that this meeting is not focused entirely on advancing the items in the step procedure. We're trying to do this, but time constraints does limit that. But above all we would like to further guidance the electronic working group chairs to progress their work for the next year. And I would encourage delegates also to take a careful look at the upcoming timetable which will be published on the codex website. We're also making some proposal to facilitate the consideration of the agenda items in the virtual plenary. And with that we hope to achieve a timely consensus on how to progress in the forthcoming year, so that we can meet the deadlines. So I hope to count on you as codex members to support me in this endeavor.