Amendments to Retained (EU) Regulation 2019/1793: Official Controls Applied to Imported High Risk Food and Feed not of Animal Origin

This consultation will be of most interest to

All England and Wales food and feed businesses, local and port health authorities, and other stakeholders with an interest in food and feed safety. A separate, parallel, consultation has been launched in Scotland by Food Standards Scotland (FSS). 

Consultation subject 

Consultation on proposed amendments to updating the lists within Retained (EU) Regulation 2019/1793 which applies a temporary increase of official controls and special conditions governing the entry into Great Britain of certain food and feed of non-animal origin from certain countries.

Purpose of the consultation 

To seek stakeholder comments on proposed amendments to updating the lists in the Annexes of Retained (EU) Regulation 2019/1793 (the Regulation). 

Consultation pack

This consultation pack provides the background information and details you will need to know in order to respond to the questions in this consultation. The full consultation document is also accessible via these pages. 

Consultation Pack for Amendments to Retained (EU) Regulation 2019/1793: Official Controls Applied to Imported High Risk Food and Feed not of Animal Origin (online accessible version) 

How to respond 

Responses to this consultation should be marked ‘Regulation 2019/1793 consultation’ and be sent to Imported.Food@food.gov.uk (in England) or LASupportWales@food.gov.uk (in Wales).

Engagement and Consultation Process

This consultation will remain open until Monday 28th August 2023. Once the consultation has ended, a review will be undertaken of the results and a consultation report will be published, with our final recommendations to the respective Ministers.

Responses

Responses are required by 5pm on Monday 28 August 2023. Please state, in your response, whether you are responding as a private individual or on behalf of an organisation/company (including details of any stakeholders your organisation represents). 

Please send your response, marked ‘Regulation 2019/1793 consultation’ to Imported.Food@food.gov.uk (England) or LASupportWales@food.gov.uk (Wales).

For information on how the FSA handles your personal data, please refer to the Consultation privacy notice.

Further information

If you require a more accessible format of this document please send details to the named contact for responses to this consultation and your request will be considered.
This consultation has been prepared in accordance with HM Government consultation principles.

Thank you on behalf of the Food Standards Agency for participating in this public consultation.

Yours,

David Lowe, Head of Imports Strategy, FSA England
Olivia Citrone, Imports and Export Manager, FSA Wales