CHAPTER II

GENERAL FOOD LAW
SECTION 3

GENERAL OBLIGATIONS OF FOOD TRADE

International standards
Article 13
The appropriate authorities must—
1. contribute to the development of international technical standards for food and feed and sanitary and phytosanitary standards;
2. promote the coordination of work on food and feed standards undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organisations;
3. contribute, where relevant and appropriate, to the development of agreements on recognition of the equivalence of specific food and feed-related measures;
4. give particular attention to the special development, financial and trade needs of developing countries, with a view to ensuring that international standards do not create unnecessary obstacles to exports from developing countries;
5. promote consistency between international technical standards and food law while ensuring that the high level of protection adopted in Great Britain is not reduced.
Words in Art. 13(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The General Food Law (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/641), regs. 1, 15(b) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1504, regs. 1(2), 10(8)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The General Food Law (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/641), regs. 1, 15(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)