The Genetically Modified Organisms(Contained Use) Regulations 2000

Additional provisions relating to notifications

15.—(1) The competent authority may at any time by notice in writing to the person undertaking or proposing to undertake an activity involving genetic modification—

(a) set a limit of time for, or impose conditions with regard to, that activity;

(b) require that person to suspend, to terminate or not to commence that activity, as the case may be;

(c) revoke or vary a consent granted to that person under regulation 11,

and the person to whom the notice is addressed shall comply with that notice.

(2) A notifier shall forthwith send to the competent authority full details in writing of—

(a) any change in the information specified in paragraphs (a), (d) or (e) of Schedule 5 and provided by him in accordance with regulation 9(1);

(b) any new building—

(i) added by the notifier to the premises notified by him in accordance with regulation 9(1), and

(ii) under his control;

(c) any decision by him no longer to use premises notified by him in accordance with regulation 9(1) for the purposes of undertaking any activity involving genetic modification;

(d) any cessation for the time being of all activity involving genetic modification at premises notified by him in accordance with regulation 9(1);

(e) any cessation of an activity involving genetic modification notified by him in accordance with regulation 10(1), 11(1) or 12(1);

(f) any re-commencement by him of an activity involving genetic modification at premises in respect of which details of a cessation had previously been given by him under sub-paragraph (d) above;

(g) any use by him of additional premises in connection with a single activity involving genetic modification carried on solely by him at more than one site, provided that a notification has been submitted by him in accordance with regulation 9(1) in respect of the additional premises;

(h) any change in the information specified in—

(i) paragraphs (b) and (c) of Schedule 5 and provided by him in accordance with regulation 9(1), or

(ii) paragraph 1(c) or (d) of Part I of Schedule 6 and provided by him in accordance with regulation 10(1).

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), where a notifier subsequently—

(a) makes a change in the premises or the activity involving genetic modification to which his notification relates which may have significant consequences for the risks arising from that activity; or

(b) becomes aware of any new information which may have significant consequences for the risks arising from that activity,

he shall forthwith send to the competent authority in writing full details of the change or the new information, as the case may be.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where a change referred to in paragraph (3)(a) would require a person to submit a notification in accordance with regulation 11(1), that person shall not make the change until—

(a) he has submitted a notification in accordance with that regulation; and

(b) he has received the written consent of the competent authority pursuant to regulation 11(1)(b).

(5) Paragraph (4) shall not apply where a person undertakes an activity involving genetic modification with the written consent of the competent authority granted pursuant to regulation 11(1)(b) and the change referred to in paragraph (3) would require that person to make a further notification under regulation 11(1).

(6) A notifier may withdraw his notification by giving written notice to the competent authority, provided that the notifier has not commenced the activity involving genetic modification to which the notification relates.

(7) In this regulation, the word “site” has the same meaning as it has in regulation 13.

(8) Anything required to be submitted or sent to the competent authority pursuant to these Regulations shall be submitted or sent in writing to the competent authority at Magdalen House, Stanley Precinct, Bootle, Merseyside L20 3QZ.