
Article 1 
Foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize line NK 603 (hereinafter referred to as the products), as designated and specified in the Annex, may be placed on the Community market as novel foods or novel food ingredients.
Article 2 
The products shall be labelled as ‘genetically modified maize’ or ‘produced from genetically modified maize’ in accordance with the labelling requirements laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.
Article 3 
The products and the information included in the Annex shall be entered in the Community register of genetically modified food and feed.
Article 4 
This Decision is addressed to Monsanto Europe SA, Avenue de Tervuren 270-272, B-1150 Brussels, Belgium, representing the Monsanto Company, United States of America. It shall be valid for a period of 10 years.
Done at Brussels, 3 March 2005.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

(a) Authorisation holder:
Name: Monsanto Europe SA
Address: Avenue de Tervuren 270-272, B-1150 Brussels, Belgium
On behalf of Monsanto Company, 800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63167, United States of America.

(b) Designation and specification of the products:
Foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize (Zea maize L.) line NK 603 with increased tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate and from all its crosses with traditionally bred maize lines. Maize line NK 603 contains the following DNA sequences in two intact cassettes:

— A 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (epsps) gene derived from Agrobacterium spec. strain CP (CP4 EPSPS), which imparts tolerance to glyphosate, under the regulation of the rice actin 1 gene promoter, terminator sequence from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the chloroplast transit peptide sequence from the epsps gene of Arabidopsis thaliana,
— A 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (epsps) gene derived from Agrobacterium spec. strain CP (CP4 EPSPS), which imparts tolerance to glyphosate, under the regulation of an enhanced 35S promoter derived from cauliflower mosaic virus, terminator sequence from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the chloroplast transit peptide sequence from the epsps gene of Arabidopsis thaliana.

(c) Labelling:‘Genetically modified maize’ or ‘produced from genetically modified maize’

(d) Method for detection:

— Event specific real-time quantitative PCR based method for genetically modified NK 603 maize.
— Validated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, in collaboration with the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL), to be published at http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/statusofdoss.htm.
— Reference Material: IRMM-415 produced by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.

(e) Unique identifier: MON-00603-6

(f) Information required under Annex II to the Cartagena Protocol: Not applicable

(g) Conditions or restrictions on the placing on the market of the product: Not applicable

(h) Post market monitoring requirements: Not appropriate.
