Between 1 July 2022 and 31 December 2022 the Czech Republic held its second presidency of the Council of the EU in its history. Whereas the overall assessment of the EU Presidency is generally positive, not all the food related issues of consumer protection were addressed with due diligence and will need to be renegotiated at EU level in the course of 2023. This paper will address both, the achievements of the Czech EU Presidency, in particular the agricultural subsidies and fishing quota agreement, as well as its setbacks with respect to reducing the plant protection products in food production and the front of package labelling of foodstuffs, where Nutri-Score failed to be adopted as the general mandatory labelling standard across the EU.