Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Commission consultation, 24 June 2021
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Commission consultation: Proposal for a revision of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, for what concerns labelling rules on alcoholic beverages A copy of the Inception impact assessment for this initiative is available on this site (click on image). The full consultation can be found on the Commission's page: Rules for alcoholic beverages. Consultation on the Roadmap closes on 22 July 2021. |
The following is the 'Context' section for the consultation document:
Context
The European Commission adopted the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan on 3 February 2021. One of its areas of action concerns sustainable cancer prevention, including by reducing harmful alcohol consumption. In this context, the Plan announces that the Commission will propose the introduction of mandatory indications of the list of ingredients and the nutrition declaration on labels of all alcoholic beverage, as is already the case for other prepacked foods.
The objective of the initiative at hand is to follow-up on this announcement via a revision of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (FIC Regulation). This initiative will complement, with respect to the labelling of all alcoholic beverages, the ongoing initiative related to the FIC Regulation which seeks to harmonise mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling, extend origin or provenance indications to certain products and revise EU rules on date marking.
