- Actions at the policy level and several initiatives pulled together by the alcohol industry point at digital means of conveying more information to consumers, but scepticism from part of the European Commission persists.
- EU decisions on alcohol labelling, including proposals for the mandatory labelling of ingredients and nutrient content on alcoholic beverages, are forecasted by the end of 2022 and health warnings on labels by the end of 2023.
- For socialist MEP Paolo De Castro, who attended the talks on the reform of the EU’s farming subsidies programme in 2021, the final compromise on e-label came after a lengthy discussion but ultimately gave “the opportunity to consumers to know all the information they need, while at the same time it is not so much complicated for producers”.
Alcohol sector goes all in on e-labels amid mixed signals from EU
