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
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  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.

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.