The Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855) (“the 2014 Regulations”) to make provision to enforce, in England, Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers (“Article 26(3)”) as read with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/775 laying down rules for the application of Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food (“the Commission Regulation”).

Regulation 2 amends Schedule 5 to the 2014 Regulations to insert a reference to Article 26(3) and the Commission Regulation. The effect of this is that regulation 12 of the 2014 Regulations applies certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c.16) in relation to those provisions. This includes the application (with modifications) of section 10(1) of that Act, which enables an improvement notice to be served requiring compliance with Article 26(3) as read with the Commission Regulation. Section 10(2) of that Act, as so applied, makes the failure to comply with an improvement notice an offence.

The Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside the Regulations on www.legislation.gov.uk.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.