The Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021 (“the Principal Regulations”) provide for restrictions on the marketing in a store or on an online marketplace of certain foods and drinks that are less healthy. Regulations 5 and 6 (relating to volume price promotions, including free drink refills) are due to come into force on 1st October 2023.

These Regulations amend the Principal Regulations so that regulations 5 and 6 instead come into force on 1st October 2025. They also amend regulation 5(5) to clarify that the volume price promotion restriction does not apply to food which includes a volume price promotion on its packaging for a period of 12 months beginning on the day regulation 5 comes into force.

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1. Introductory Text

2. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

3. 2.Amendment of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021

4. Signature

5. Explanatory Note