Policy paper

Food compositional standards and labelling: provisional common framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in food compositional standards and labelling policy areas.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 23 March 2021
• Last updated: 11 January 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Food compositional standards and labelling provisional common framework

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3055-9, CP 592

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in key food compositional standards and labelling policy areas.

The provisional Common Framework has received ministerial approval from all four governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

Published 23 March 2021

Last updated 11 January 2023 + show all updates

1. 11 January 2023

   Updated to reflect the correct ISBN number.

2. 17 February 2022

   Added the latest version of the provisional common framework.

3. 23 March 2021

   First published.