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Food Law News - UK - 2020

FSA Board Meeting Paper (FSA 20-01-06), 9 January 2020

BREXIT – FSA Board Paper: EU Exit - Update

Food Standards Agency Board Meeting Paper (FSA 20-01-06) - EU EXIT: UPDATE

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The paper is for the discussion at the Board meeting on the 21 January 2020. The following is the introduction to the Board Paper:

EU EXIT: UPDATE

1. Summary

1.1 This paper updates the Board on the FSA’s preparations for EU exit and outlines how we plan to deliver, through a managed programme of work, the next phase of exit activity and responding to the challenges and opportunities of the post-exit environment, as it affects the FSA’s statutory remit.

2. Introduction

2.1 In September 2017, the Board discussed the FSA’s approach to planning for EU Exit and agreed the principles against which the FSA should assess whether the future regulatory regime for food safety will meet the FSA’s statutory objective of protecting public health and consumers’ other interests in relation to food.  As set out in the September 2017 Board paper, the current regulatory regime for achieving food safety within the UK relies substantially on the EU framework and so a significant programme of work has been required to prepare the food and feed safety regulatory regime to be as effective as it is now outside of the EU.

2.2 In 2018 and 2019, the Board received several updates on the FSA’s preparation for EU Exit including on the FSA’s post exit approach to incident management and our arrangements for risk analysis.

2.3 In June 2019, the FSA Board’s Business Committee Meeting received a report setting out how each of the main no deal projects within the FSA’s EU Exit Programme had delivered the core outcomes required to ensure that there would be an effective food safety regime in place for the protection of consumers when the UK exits the EU.  Work across the FSA has subsequently continued to review, test, pilot and continue the preparations for operating post EU Exit.   2.4 On the 31 January 2020 the UK will exit the EU under the terms set out in the Withdrawal Agreement, this means that the UK will enter into a transition period that will run until the end of December 2020.  The FSA is ready to ensure that the high food and feed safety standards consumers enjoy in the UK will be maintained.


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