Food and Drink Assimilated Law Consultation

Foreword Leaving the European Union (EU) has given us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to review how we make and shape the United Kingdom’s (UK) regulatory framework for food and drink. We are in the process of evaluating assimilated laws inherited from the EU – previously known as retained EU laws (REUL) – to ensure they continue to meet our needs. We are delivering a programme of reforms and revocations to take control of our legislation and regulations, and move forward in a direction that benefits the UK. In this consultation, we are seeking views on a list of 60 food, drink and other assimilated laws that the UK and devolved governments: - believe to be obsolete or require amending - would like to revoke or amend in order to update the statute book This would enable us to take ownership of our regulatory framework. In this c