Country of origin labels

Where EU law does not require an EU member state to be indicated, food from and sold in NI can continue to use ‘origin EU’ or ‘origin UK’.

You should label food from and sold in NI as ‘UK(NI)’ or ‘United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)’ where EU law requires member state from 1 January 2021.

You may label food from NI and sold in Great Britain as ‘UK(NI)’, ‘United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)’ or ‘UK’.

Food from and sold in Great Britain can be labelled as ‘origin EU’ until 30 September 2022.

From 1 October 2022, food from Great Britain must not be labelled as ‘origin EU’.