The European Commission is simplifying and streamlining EU laws across all policies, including in the areas of food and feed safety, animals and plants. This is part of its broader strategy to make EU regulations more efficient, while maintaining high safety and welfare standards.
Food and Feed Safety Simplification Package – December 2025
The Simplification Package was proposed by the Commission to streamline and simplify food and feed legislation in specific areas. It focuses on reducing unnecessary administrative costs and burdens for agri-food producers and operators and national authorities.
Among the key measures proposed are:
- faster procedures for to give bio-control products market access
- more targeted and efficient renewal procedures for pesticides and biocides
- more targeted and efficient renewal procedures for feed additive authorisations
- digital labelling options for feed additives
- streamlined measures for fermentation products produced using GMMs.
- stronger import rules for pesticide residues, to ensure a level playing field
- simplified accreditation rules for official laboratories
- a more pragmatic approach to border controls for plant products
- adapted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance and risk mitigation requirements.
Process
The European Commission coordinates the effort to streamline food and feed-safety legislation. Thorough evaluations of existing legislation and consultations with Member States have informed the proposed simplifications. The European Parliament and the Council will review the legislative proposal for adoption.
Legislative proposals
- Commission proposal for a directive – simplification of food and feed safety requirements (COM(2025) 1021 final)
- Commission proposal for a regulation – simplification of food and feed safety requirements (COM(2025) 1030 final)
- Commission staff working document – proposed regulation on simplification of food and feed safety requirements (COM(2025) 1030 final)
- Commission proposal for a regulation – extension of certain data protection periods (COM(2025) 1020 final)
Other
- Answers to concerns about the Food and Feed Simplification Package (February 2026)
- Simpler food and feed safety rules while upholding high health standards and boosting competitiveness of EU producers – press release (December 2025)
- Simplification of food and feed safety rules – questions and answers (December 2025)