Consultation: Discounts on charges for meat industry enforcement activity

Views are sought on changes to the charging for dealing with food business operators' non-compliance with legislation

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is seeking feedback on their proposal to remove discounts on charges to meat industry food business operators (FBOs) for enforcement activity.

The consultation seeks comments from meat industry FBOs, representative bodies, consumers, and other interested stakeholders on changes to the approach on applying discounts to charges for enforcement activity that has arisen to deal with non-compliance.

The main proposals are:

• to remove discounts on charges for enforcement activity
• to charge time spent on enforcement work at full cost

The proposals suggest that a discount should not be applied to charges for dealing with FBOs' non-compliance with the requirements of the legislation and that the taxpayer should not be required to fund a discount on these charges.

Find out more about this consultation on the proposed removal of discounts on charges for meat industry enforcement activity in Northern Ireland.

Those interested in responding to the consultation should use the FSA's response form and send responses to NIOperationalpolicy@food.gov.uk.

Responses are required by 4 January 2023.

First published 19 October 2022