CHAPTER II

APPLICATIONS FOR THE PLACING ON THE MARKET OF GMOs
Article 2
1
Applications for the placing on the market of GMOs shall include a unique identifier for each GMO concerned.
2
Applicants shall, in accordance with the formats set out in the Annex, develop the unique identifier for each GMO concerned, following consultation of the OECD BioTrack product database, and the Biosafety clearing house established by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (the “Biosafety clearing house”), to determine whether or not a unique identifier has already been developed for that GMO in accordance with these formats.
Words in Art. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/90), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)