Meat Products: Labelling
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether plant-based and cultivated meat products will be allowed to be marketed with such terminology as a consequence of dynamic alignment with EU law.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
As part of the UK-EU SPS Agreement currently being negotiated, the Government is making a sovereign choice in the national interest to align in some areas where it makes sense to do so, as set out in the Government’s recently published announcement on legislation in scope. This includes the marketing standards elements of Regulation (EU) 1308/2013, which will apply to GB once the agreement is implemented.
The Government is aware of the EU’s draft legislation seeking to amend these rules, including proposals to prevent use of meat-related terms for the marketing of products which do not contain meat. Defra cannot confirm what products may be captured in scope of these proposals as they have not yet been adopted, but the department is monitoring their progress through the EU legislative process.
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