Consultation exercises
Consultation exercises normally begin with publication of a
consultation paper in which the Government sets out its thinking on some policy issue or other legislative proposal, and invites comment from interested bodies and others. The
consultation period, during which comments are submitted before a deadline, normally lasts several weeks. Once the deadline has passed, the various comments are considered by the Government in its more formal plans for legislation etc. After this stage, the comments are made publicly available for six months as
consultation replies.
MAFF's Whitehall Place library will supply copies of consultation replies on request to personal callers or telephone enquirers (Tel 0645 335577 - local call rates). To avoid delays personal callers should give the library 24 hours' notice of their requirements. An administrative charge to cover the cost of photocopying and postage will apply.
Some consultation documents have been published in Portable Document Format
. To read them you will require a copy of the "Acrobat Reader" software. Click here to download a copy.
Among those more recently published are the following:
Consultation replies publicly available (for six months from date shown)
- Consultation on the Proposed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000.
16 February 2000
- Consultation on the Proposed Formula and Follow-on Formula (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000.
16 February 2000
- Consultation on the Proposed Medical Foods (England) Regulations 2000.
15 February 2000
- Consultation on Draft Colours in Food (Amendments) (England) Regulations 2000
24 January 2000
- Consultation Exercise on the Proposed Amendments to the Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Charges) Regulations 1998
19 January 2000
- Consultation Exercise on Increasing the Openness of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
18 January 2000
- Revision of the Food Labelling Regulations Guidance Notes: Place of Origin
12 January 2000
- Consultation on the Proposal to lift the Beef on the Bone Ban
16 December 1999
- Consultation on Recommendations made for dietary Supplements Containing French Maritime Pine Bark Extract
15 December 1999
- Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) Proposed Draft Recommendations on Health Claims
15 November 1999
- Draft Commission Regulation (III/5198/99 Rev.1) on the Labelling of Foodstuffs and Food Ingredients Containing Additives and Flavourings that have been Genetically Modified or have been Produced from Genetically Modified Organisms
26 October 1999
- Draft Commission Directive: Substances that may be Added for a Specific Nutritional Purpose in Foods for Particular Nutritional Uses
18 October 1999
- Proposed Amendments to Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995
27 September 1999
- Draft Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1999
7 July 1999
- Review of Raw Cows' Drinking Milk Policy
7 July 1999
- Draft Guidance Notes for Labelling of Food containing Genetically Modified Soya or Maize and Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Legislation
5 July 1999
- The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999
29 June 1999
- "Food Standards Agency Draft Legislation" "Proposals for a Levy Scheme"
24 June 1999
- Maximum levels for Aflatoxins in Foodstuffs Commission Regulation and Directive
3 June 1999
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This page was last updated on 24 February 2000
