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Q1 FPC Sustainability Meeting - Minutes and Presentations
30 January 2026
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Q4 FPC Sustainability Meeting - Presentation, Minutes and Recording
21 October 2025
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Sedex Provides FPC with Enhanced Membership Guidance
30 July 2025
Accessing Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce Resources to support your business
2 July 2025
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FPC Sustainability Meeting Q4 15/10/24 - Minutes and Presentations
16 October 2024
The FreshProducePEFCR was created to provide a harmonised, EU‑aligned environmental footprint methodology for the fresh fruit and vegetable sector, responding t...
The government will introduce Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on 1 January 2027.This will ensure highly traded, carbon intensive products from overseas face ...
This strategic assessment, published for the first time, explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s res...
Speaking at the 2026 Oxford Farming Conference, Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds announced a package of measures to strengthen partnerships with farmers, dri...
WRAP convenes Collective Action Projects which aim to identify shared water risks for agriculture and coordinate cross-sector solutions with other NGOs, busines...
The EFRA Committee has published the Government’s response its recent report on the future of farming. It is available here. The report, The Government’s vision...
The BRC has issued a response to the Employer Pays Principle (EPP) Feasibility Study, which was commissioned and funded jointly by Defra and the Seasonal Worker...
Defra have now issued the second consultation document relating to fair dealings in the fresh produce sector. The aim of the proposals are to improve fairness ...
The recently published Labour Market Enforcement Strategy outlines 4 main themes: improving the radar picture, improving focus on effectiveness, better joined-u...
This publication articulates this government's vision and the framework for a future of our food system – a system that is healthier, more affordable, sustainab...
The Employer Pays Principle Feasibility Study, within the Horticulture Value Chain was commissioned and funded jointly by Defra and the Seasonal Worker Scheme T...
This document provides a summary of results from a survey of workers who were issued Seasonal Worker visas and came to work in the UK during 2024. The purpose o...
Red Tractor is seeking to appoint a new Chair for the Fresh Produce Board. In this role the successful candidate will engage equally with sector board members a...
GlobalGAP has opened the public consultation for version 2 of the GLOBALG.A.P. Produce Handling Assurance (PHA) standard, which will run from 19 May–16 June 202...
Defra, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government, and DAERA in Northern Ireland published a Joint Policy Statement on Extended Producer Responsibility for pac...
A reminder that from 31 March, many workplaces - including businesses and non-domestic premises - will have a legal obligation to separate recycling and food ...
There is a current collaboration between University of Lincoln, University of Aberdeen, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Strathclyde that forms ...
As you may know, last summer Defra’s Secretary of State announced a review of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP23). We are developing a new, statutory pla...
The Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce is reaching out on behalf of Alma Economics to share an invitation to take part in a survey of horticulture growers as part...
The Government has launched a consultation on a new approach to Land Use empowering decision makers with the toolkit to protect the most productive agricultural...
The first UK-wide, comprehensive review of farm assurance has called for a fundamental reset of the system to rebuild confidence amongst farmers. The review, es...
The Government has set out its next steps, including identifying legislative options that would legally prevent the future use of three specific neonicotinoids ...
A new £15 million government scheme will provide grants to the not-for-profit food redistribution sector to strengthen links between farms and charities. The fu...
To help farmers, growers and land managers adopt different IPM approaches, Defra published a new guidance page on GOV.UK. This post includes a link to the new g...
The slides from the recent GCA Annual Conference held on 1st October have been published and can be found here: 2024 GCA conference You Gov slides. There is a c...
On 30 October, the Chancellor announced in the Budget that the rate of Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) will increase in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Th...
Today the Govt issued a response to the UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ‘introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)’ alongside ...
The Seasonal Worker visa route has been confirmed today for 2025, with a total of 43,000 Seasonal Worker visas available for horticulture and 2,000 for poultry ...
The EU Commission has published additional guidance documents and a stronger international cooperation framework to support global stakeholders, Member States a...
Following the implementation of SMETA version 7 in September 2024, the BRC have issued a response from the major retailers in relation to the Responsible Recrui...
The Migration Advisory Committee conducted an in depth research project into the Seasonal Worker Visa and the results have now been published. The main recommen...
Between December 2023 and February 2024, Defra, in collaboration with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, conducted a ...
The Consumer Goods Forum, responsible for GFSI, have launched the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative environmental benchmark which seeks to standardise the cri...
An overview of the horticultural industry in the United Kingdom (UK) using external data, including government published statistics and information from the pre...
FPC's CEO Nigel Jenney attended the Farm to Fork summit at 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister laid out a clear ambition to grow our fruit and vegetable...
