Foodlaw-Reading Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Food Law News - UK - 2021

FSA Board meeting paper (FSA 21-12-04), 25 November 2021

BREXIT - FSA Board Paper: EU Transition Policy Update

FSA Board Paper: FSA EU Transition Policy Update A copy of this Board Paper is available on this site (click on image). Provided under the Open Government Licence. The original document was accessed from:

The following is the summary taken from the full Board Paper due for discussion at the Board meeting on 8 December 2021.

This paper reflects on the current position one year after the end of the EU transition period and focusses on future areas of four country policy activity. It does not report on all EU Exit related issues for the FSA.

The Board is asked to: note:

• the key developments and activity since the last update on post transition arrangements in March 2021.
• the FSA expects to be asked to contribute to Section 42 reports, which is a requirement in the Agriculture Act 2020 for the Secretary of State for Department for International Trade to lay a report before Parliament on whether free trade agreement measures on agricultural products are consistent with the maintenance of UK levels of statutory protections, including for human health.

The Board is asked to:

• agree that the FSA executive should reconsider its original 2018 principle in light of the changes in context since we exited the EU.
• agree that, in considering alignment or divergence across the UK, the central factor in determining advice should be safety and public health, with wider contextual factors that could also impact consumers considered secondarily on a case-by-case basis.