Decision details

To approve the Food Safety Service Plan 2026/27 at Appendix 1

The Official Control Assimilated Law: Regulation (EC) No. 2017/625 came into force in December 2019. They provide for the execution and enforcement of the food elements on official controls and other official activities which must be performed to ensure the application of food law. They set out a framework of requirements for Cheltenham Borough Council as a competent food authority with responsibilities for organising and performing official controls and activities to verify compliance with agi-food chain legislation.
The Food Law Code of Practice (England) (FLCoP), ‘The Code,’ outlines how the requirements of Assimilated Law: Regulation (EC) No. 2017/625 apply to Competent Food Authorities.
Authorities must have procedures and/or arrangements in place to ensure the effectiveness, appropriateness, impartiality, quality and consistency of official controls and other official activities, including a documented food service plan.
The plan should set out how they intend to resource and deliver official controls, other official activities, and activities related to these, in relation to all areas of food law that they have a duty to enforce. The service plan should include details of the council’s services and committee structure, scope of the food service, including where services are provided by other organisations, and other services delivered alongside the food service and demands on the food service.
The delivery plan should be submitted for approval, whether that is at member, member forum or suitably delegated senior officer level, with records to show it has received appropriate approval.

None: It is a statutory duty to prepare such a service plan in the prescribed format with appropriate approval.

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