ROF Programme Objectives Develop and implement a new sustainable approach to regulation that leverages business behaviour change to deliver benefits for consumers. Design and implement a regulatory delivery model that ensures an effective approach to regulating food safety across the food chain, makes use of all available data and is financially sustainable in the long term. to ….
ROF Timeline for Change • Digital solution testing for registration & segmentation • Food Law Code of Practice – consultation on segmentation proposals • Enhanced registration pilot leading to go-live in April 2019 • Draft sustainable funding proposal • PA National Inspection Strategy trial
Enhanced Registration What we are doing What is it? • Undertaking • Knowing more research to improve about insights into food businesses so business attitudes that we can help new to registration . businesses to • Developing a digital understand platform for the their registration of food responsibilitie businesses. s for producing food that is safe • Phased approach : and what it says Discovery and Alpha it is. phases completed.
Enhanced Registration What difference will it What’s Next? make? • Beta phase – user • FSA to have full testing. oversight of all food • Designing the process businesses. for a new business • LAs using their start up. resources to • Developing a comms maximise public strategy for driving protection . businesses to • Reassurance for enhanced registration consumers that a to provide them with robust system is in relevant advice for place. new businesses. • FBOs have a user • Build strategic third friendly process with party alliances easy access to promoting need for tailored advice and registration. support .
Segmentation What we are doing What is it? • Engaging stakeholders • A new risk to change the way we management assess food safety risks. approach to determine the • Developing a data nature, driven approach to risk frequency and assessment. intensity of the controls for food • Targeting resource to businesses address the challenges subject to . that face those who have responsibility for food standards enforcement.
Segmentation What difference will it What’s Next? make? • Engage FBOs, LAs and • Regulators will be able to regulators to discuss how better target their the changes might work in resources towards practice . businesses that need the • Survey other regulators to most support. identify best practice. • Focus on those • Survey food standards businesses that refuse to practitioners to understand fulfil their obligations. current issues and what • Businesses committed to improvements could be food safety will be made. recognised by the nature, • Launch a project with LAs frequency and intensity to capture detailed food of regulatory oversight. business data. • Provide consumers with • Trial new approach to risk more confidence in the assessment. regulation of FBOs.
National Inspection Strategies What are they? What we are doing • Frequency, nature and intensity of • Testing the concept of official controls for National Inspection a group of Strategies with a group businesses will be of Primary Authorities. determined by the • Evaluate and determine Primary Authority. how National Inspection • A Primary Authority Strategies can be could decide that it implemented within ROF. has sufficient • A challenge for NIS – to evidence that food consider how FHRS safety is being well would operate for the managed and premises that fall within consider that a an NIS. more tailored style or reduced • Developing guidance number of with stakeholders for regulatory Primary Authorities who interventions are wish to develop an NIS warranted. for their partnerships.
National Inspection Strategies What difference will it What’s Next? make? • Establishing how the FSA • It will reduce the level and will maintain oversight of frequency of intervention Primary Authorities who required from LAs at individual outlets freeing develop and implement an up resource to focus on NIS. poorly performing • Developing an approach to business. how NIS is aligned with the • Reduces the regulatory Food Law Code of burden on a business Practice intervention rating when it has demonstrated scheme. compliance.
Regulated Private Assurance What is it? What we are doing • An expanded • Introducing more ways formal and for businesses to provide recognised role for evidence they are doing the private the right thing. assurance schemes already • We are setting the operating. standards that regulated private assurance providers will have to meet. • De-prioritising Certified Regulatory Auditor (CRA).
Regulated Private Assurance What’s Next? What difference will it make? • Working with British Standards Institute (BSI) to • Clearer standards that will formalise the FSA’s help PA professionals to approach to setting meet our requirements. standards . • Compliant businesses • Defining what constitutes will have their PA formally competency in an taken into account by the assurance role . regulator. • Consumer protection to be maintained.
Sustainable Funding What is it ? What What we are doing • Businesses should meet • Baselining costs cross the costs of regulation, the food and feed which should be no more delivery landscape than they need. • Regulatory Futures Review • Exploring funding models recommendations: used by other regulators - a move to greater regulated private assurance and • Building knowledge base earned recognition. of other current funding regimes - the regulatory model should be underpinned by full cost recovery for regulatory activities.
Feasibility Studies – Tech What we are doing What are they? • Three-month trial, five • Testing the ability of new businesses in the technologies to assist / Cambridge area replacing predict / support food paper-based food safety safety work management with a digital solution • Proof of Concept work on data exchange between LAs & FSA • Testing how data gathered at registration can be shared with the regulator and cross- referenced against locally held records
How can you get involved? • We want to continue to listen to the views of those with an interest in food standards and safety and to capture the insights and knowledge that already exists in an open and transparent way. • Here is link to our monthly newsletter and podcast: https://www.food.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-fsa/regulating-our- future/regulating-our-future-newsletter where you can also sign up to received regular updates and communication on the RoF programme. • Continue the discussions by joining the conversation #foodregulation or email directly: FutureDelivery@food.gov.uk
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