Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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FSA Board Paper (FSA 20-01-07), 9 January 2020
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FSA Board Paper: Modernising regulation - progress update and forward plan A copy of the paper is available on this site (click on image). Provided uder the Open Government Licence. The original publication accessed from: |
The paper is for the discussion at the Board meeting on the 21 January 2020. The following is the introduction to the Board Paper:
1. Summary
1.1 In 2016, the FSA launched an ambitious long-term intention to modernise how we work with local authorities in delivering official controls. Our goal is to design an effective, proportionate, risk-based, robust and resilient regulatory system to ensure that businesses meet their responsibility to produce food that is safe and what it says it is. It is a programme to reform the regulatory delivery model and intended to bring the regulatory system for food hygiene and standards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland into line with a globalised, industrialised, technologically advanced, highly convenient food industry.
1.2 Shortly after the launch of this reform plan the UK voted to leave the European Union. In response the FSA built, and has now implemented, entirely new processes for risk analysis decision making post EU Exit across our full remit. This includes significant changes in governance, capacity, capability and role. These changes are fully aligned with the modernisation principles set by the Board.
1.3 The two major change programmes, Regulating Our Future and EU Exit, have run in tandem for the last three years, although inevitably the EU Exit programme has consumed the lion’s share of resources and time. As we approach the UK’s EU exit date, we are now able to conclude the first phase of our wider modernisation programme (Regulating Our Future) building on the progress made in both programmes and establish the next stage of reform. Therefore, this paper asks the Board to:
