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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 962
12. For regulation 6(2), substitute—
“(2) The Department shall not authorise marketing of seed potatoes which contain any genetically modified material unless—
(a)an authorisation is in force under—
(i)Regulation 1829/2003 or Part C of Directive 2001/18/EC, where that authorisation was granted before exit day;
(ii)Regulation 1829/2003 (on genetically modified food and feed); or
(b)a consent has been granted under
(i)Article 8(1) of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1);
(ii)section 111(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(2).”.
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