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1. The following matters shall be investigated and assessed in relation to any organism which is or will be a donor, recipient or parental organism—
(a)the name, species, subspecies and strain of the organism;
(b)the degree of relatedness between the donor, recipient (and where appropriate the parental) organism in relation to which the assessment is being carried out;
(c)the sources of the organism;
(d)the reproductive cycle of the organism;
(e)history of prior genetic modifications to the organism;
(f)the stability of the genetic traits of the organism;
(g)the nature of the pathogenicity, virulence, infectivity, toxicity, and vectors of disease transmission of the organism;
(h)the base sequence, frequency of mobilisation and specificity of the organism’s indigenous vectors;
(i)the presence in the organism of genes which confer resistance;
(j)the host range of an organism which is a parasite or pathogen;
(k)the organism’s other potentially significant physiological traits, and the stability of those traits;
(l)the organism’s natural habitat and geographic distribution;
(m)the climatic characteristics of the organism’s natural habitat;
(n)the significant involvement of the organism in environmental processes, including nitrogen fixation and pH regulation;
(o)the interaction of the organism with other organisms in the environment and its effect on those organisms, including its likely competitive or symbiotic properties;
(p)the ability of the organism to form survival structures, including seeds, spores or sclerotia.
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