The diploma highlights that it is a simplified label with implementation "in a wide range" of European Union countries and that it is already used by several economic operators in the food sector in Portugal.

"In this way, it is positioned as the simplified nutritional labelling system with the best conditions to be adopted in Portugal", argues the order.

The 'Nutri-score' nutritional logo, a small image with coloured segments displayed on packaging, is based on a scale from A to E and from green to red, which aims to show whether the food you are going to buy is more or less healthy, showing the green one that the product is healthy and the red one that it is unhealthy.

The order determines not only the adoption of the 'Nutri-Score' labelling system but also the development by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) within a period of 120 days, which ends at the end of July, the adoption process of this system, defining, in particular, the procedural process to be followed by economic operators when adhering to the system and a system of procedural support for this adhesion by operators.

The DGS also has, according to the order, to define a communication campaign, with a view to promoting the adoption of the 'Nutri-Score' labelling system by economic operators and informing consumers and ensuring the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the system.

For this work to be carried out by DGS in four months, other interested parties will be consulted, namely public and private entities in the food and economic sectors, determines the order.