A Bruxelles, foodwatch contacted the European Ombudsman in January 2024, after the Commission had refused it, among other documents, access to the opinion of the Regulatory Scrutiny Committee on the revision of the regulation on consumer information (INCO). In English, it is Regulatory Scrutiny Board, an independent body which advises European commissioners in the preparation of legal texts and gives the green light so that a proposal passes all stages and can be published.
The objective of this referral? Understand why the revision of the INCO regulation, scheduled for the end of 2022, to include mandatory nutritional labeling in Europe, has been pushed under the rug. While any possibility of making the Nutri-Score compulsory was postponed indefinitely, foodwatch was in fact neither fooled nor convinced of the silence of the European Commission in this matter.
Remember that the World Health Organization (WHO) itself recommends the generalization of the Nutri-score in Europe to fight against non-communicable diseases.
