Food law
While food law is not a dedicated branch of law, food-business operators have begun to encounter its specifics more and more frequently in recent years. Food law continues to evolve in response to technological advancements and to new scientific and research breakthroughs. To ensure food quality, safety standards and proper labelling, a vast amount of legislation has been adopted at the European, international and harmonised national level, in which it is extremely difficult to orientate and even more difficult to apply correctly in practice.
Scope of services
- Comprehensive legal consultancy for food-business operators
- Legal assistance on labelling in accordance with European and national legislation
- Consultancy on importing food from third countries and representation in product-certification processes
- Representation in all proceedings before food-control authorities
- Monitoring alerts issued within the European Rapid Alert System
Our approach
Given this situation, food-business operators often only become aware of their statutory obligations during a control process, when control authorities issue fines for the identified discrepancies. Our firm provides operators with comprehensive consultancy focused primarily on effective prevention and the harmonisation of production processes and product labelling with domestic and international legislation, including legal assistance on all related commercial contracts.