Commission Decision of 17 June 2011 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified cotton GHB614 (BCS-GHØØ2-5) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2011) 4177) (Only the German text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/354/EU) (c. 354)

ANNEX

(a) Applicant and authorisation holder

Name

:

Bayer CropScience AG

Address

:

Alfred-Nobel-Straße 50, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany

(b) Designation and specification of the products

(1)

Foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton;

(2)

Feed containing, consisting of, or produced from BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton;

(3)

Products other than food and feed containing or consisting of BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton for the same uses as any other cotton with the exception of cultivation.

The genetically modified BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), as described in the application, expresses the 2mEPSPS protein which confers tolerance to the glyphosate herbicide.

(c) Labelling

(1)

For the purposes of the specific labelling requirements laid down in Article 13(1) and Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, and in Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003, the ‘name of the organism’ shall be ‘cotton’;

(2)

The words ‘not for cultivation’ shall appear on the label of and in documents accompanying products containing or consisting of BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton referred to in Article 2(b) and (c) of this Decision.

(d) Method for detection

• Event specific real-time PCR based method for the quantification of BCS-GHØØ2-5 cotton,

• Validated on seeds by the Community reference laboratory established under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, published at http://gmo-crl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/statusofdoss.htm,

• Reference Material: AOCS 1108-A and 0306-A accessible via the American Oil Chemists society at http://www.aocs.org/tech/crm/

(e) Unique identifier

BCS-GHØØ2-5

(f) Information required under Annex II to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Biosafety Clearing-House, Record ID: see [to be completed when notified].

(g) Conditions or restrictions on the placing on the market, use or handling of the products

Not required.

(h) Monitoring plan

Monitoring plan for environmental effects conforming with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC

[Link: plan published on the Internet]

(i) Post market monitoring requirements for the use of the food for human consumption

Not required.

Note: links to relevant documents may need to be modified over the time. Those modifications will be made available to the public via the updating of the Community register of genetically modified food and feed.