Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 2002

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990;

“the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment” means the committee appointed by the Secretary of State under section 124 of the Act;

“antibiotic resistance markers” means genes employed in the modification of an organism to make that organism express resistance to a particular antibiotic or antibiotics;

“application for consent to release” shall include any notification made under the First Simplified Procedure (crop plants) Decision;

“approved product” means a product permitted to be marketed by a consent granted under section 111(1) of the Act by a person other than the Secretary of State or otherwise in accordance with Article 15(3), 17(6) or 18(2) of the Deliberate Release Directive or Article 13(2) or (4) of the 1990 Directive;

“the Commission” means the European Commission;

“the Contained Use Directive” means Council Directive 90/219/EEC(1) on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms as amended by Commission Directive 1994/51/EC(2) and Directive 98/81/EC(3);

“the Deliberate Release Directive” means Council Directive 2001/18/EC(4) on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms;

“the 1990 Directive” means Council Directive 1990/220/EEC(5) on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms as amended by Commission Directive 1994/15/EC(6) and Commission Directive 1997/35/EC(7);

“electronic communication” means the same as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000(8);

“environmental risk assessment” means the environmental risk assessment required to be contained in an application for consent to release or market genetically modified organisms by regulation 11(1)(c) and regulation 16(2)(c), respectively;

“the First Simplified Procedure (crop plants) Decision” means Commission Decision 94/730/EC(9);

“genetically modified organisms” means a genetically modified organism or a combination of genetically modified organisms;

“higher plant” means a plant belonging to the taxonomic group Spermatophytae (Gymnospermae or Angiospermae);

“local authority” means a county council, a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority, and the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

“monitoring plan” means the plan required by regulation 16(2)(g);

“the register” means the public register kept by the Secretary of State under section 122 of the Act.

“the 1992 Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992(10).

(1)

OJ No L117, 8.5.1990, p. 1.

(2)

OJ No L297, 18.11.1994, p. 29.

(3)

OJ No L330, 5.12.1998, p. 13.

(4)

OJ No L106, 17.4.2001, p. 1.

(5)

OJ No L117, 8.5.1990, p. 15.

(6)

OJ No L103, 22.4.1994, p. 20.

(7)

OJ No L169, 27.6.1997, p. 72.

(8)

2000 c. 7.

(9)

OJ No L292, 12.11.1994, p. 31.

(10)

SI 1992/3280 as amended by the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1993 (SI 1993/152), the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/304), the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release and Risk Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/1900) and the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/2831).