Important Updates
- Advertising rulings: The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled as follows:
• Steinhoff: Failure to provide substantiation of period for which pre-reduction price applied. View >
• Ernest Jackson T/A Bassetts vitamins: Complaint rejected re use of term ‘no added’ sugars. View >
• ASDA: Lack of clarity that copy was advertising rather than editorial. View >
- Parliamentary report on plastic bottles: The parliamentary environmental audit committee has published a report ‘Turning back the tide of plastic’ recommending that a deposit return requirement should be imposed on all single trip plastic drinks bottles. View >
- Publicity campaign on calorie intakes: Public Health England has announced its intention to launch a campaign on calorie intakes providing guidance that 20% of calories come from the first meal of the day, 30% each from two subsequent meals and 20% from snacks. View >
Brexit Developments
- Prime Ministers statement to parliament on December EU Council meeting outcome: View >
- EU publish directives for transition negotiations: The EU Commission has published its negotiating position in respect of a transitional period for UK exit setting out its red lines which are basically full application of EU law. View >
- Business advice for UK Government:
• The CBI has published a report analysing the 40 or so EU technical bodies and which the UK will need to remain associated with post Brexit. View >
• The British retail consortium has published a report on the importance of UK being able to retain the benefits of EU trade deals with third countries post Brexit. View >
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