I. Introduction On January 30th 2008 the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on the provision of food information to consumers (hereinafter referred to as the Draft Regulation)1. The initiative’s objective was to consolidate and update EC food labelling legislation by merging and amending the hitherto effective Directive on Food Labelling 2000/13/EC together with Directive 90/496/EEC on Nutrition Labelling. In addition to the merging of Directives 2000/13/EC and 90/496/EEC, five further directives and one regulation were included and recast in the proposal so that these disparate sources of law were replaced by one piece of legislation2. The following contribution deals first with the content of the proposal (see section II). Then follows a review of some of the responses received to the consultation (section III). This is followed by a critical analysis.