
CHAPTER I
Article 1 

(1. This Regulation applies to genetically modified organisms, hereinafter  ‘GMOs’, authorised for placing on the market in accordance with Regulation 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council  or—
(a) in England, the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 2002,
(b) in Wales, the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Wales) Regulations 2002,
(c) in Scotland, the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Scotland) Regulations 2002,
and applications for placing on the market under such legislation.
(2.  This Regulation does not apply to medicinal products for human and veterinary use authorised under—
(a) Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
(b) the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, or
(c) the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013,
or applications for authorisation under such legislation.
CHAPTER II
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.
Article 3 
Where consent or authorisation is granted for the placing on the market of a GMO:
(a) the consent or authorisation shall specify the unique identifier for that GMO;
(b) the  Secretary of State  shall ensure that the unique identifier for that GMO is communicated as soon as possible, in writing, to the Biosafety clearing house;
(c) for GMOs authorised under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, the unique identifier must be recorded in the register maintained in accordance with Article 28 of that Regulation.
CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER IV
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
...Done at Brussels, 14 January 2004.
For the Commission
Margot Wallström
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

The Annex below defines the format for the unique identifier for plants in Section A and for micro-organisms and animals in Section B.

SECTION A  1. This Annex provides details as to the format to be used for unique identifiers for GMOs pending or authorised for the placing on the market .... The format consists of three components comprising a number of alphanumeric digits and providing reference to the applicant/consent holder, transformation event and a means for verification.The format comprises nine alphanumeric digits in total. The first component represents the applicant/consent holder and comprises two or three alphanumeric digits. The second component comprises five or six alphanumeric digits and represents the transformation event. The third component provides for verification and is represented by a final numerical digit.The following provides an example of a unique identifier developed using this format.orThe following sections provide guidance as to how the three individual components of the unique identifier should be developed. 2. The first two or three alphanumeric digits represent the applicant/consent holder (for example, the first two or three letters of the applicant/consent holder organisation name), followed by a dash, such;orApplicants may already have assigned alphanumeric digits to indicate their identity and these appear in the applicant's code table within the OECD BioTrack product database. These applicants should continue to use these digits.Any new applicant that is not identified within the database will not be permitted to use the existing codes listed in the applicant's code table within the database. The new applicant Should inform the national authorities, which should update the OECD BioTrack product database by including a new code (digits) that will be designed to identify the new applicant in the code table. 3. The second set of five or six alphanumerical digits should represent the specific transformation event(s), which is the subject of the application for the placing on the market and/or consent, such as:orClearly, an individual transformation event may occur in different organisms, species and varieties and the digits should be representative of the specific event in question. Again, applicants should, prior to formulating unique identifiers, consult the OECD BioTrack product database in terms of the unique identifiers that have been assigned to similar transformation events of the same organism/species in order to provide consistency and to avoid duplication.Applicants should develop their own internal mechanism to avoid applying the same designation (digits) to a "transformation event" if used in a different organism. Where similar transformation events are developed by two or more organisations, the "applicant information" (see section 2) should enable applicants to generate a unique identifier for their own product, while at the same time ensuring its uniqueness from those generated by other applicants.As regards new GMOs compromising more than one transformation event (often referred to as stacked-gene transformation events), applicants or consent holders should generate a novel unique identifier for such GMOs. 4. The final digit of the unique identifier is for verification, which shall be separated from the rest of the unique identifier digits by a dash, such as:orThe verification digit is intended to reduce errors by ensuring the integrity of the alphanumeric identifier, entered by the users of the database.The rule to calculate the verification digit is as follows. The verification digit is made up of a single numerical digit. It is calculated by adding together the numerical values of each of the alphanumerical digits in the unique identifier. The numerical value of each of the digits is fromto 9 for the numerical digits (to 9) and 1 to 26 for the alphabetical digits (A to Z) (see sections 5 and 6). The total sum, if made up of several numerical digits, will be further calculated by adding the remaining digits together using the same rule, in an iterative process, until the final sum is a single numerical digit.For example, the verification digit for the code CED-AB891 is calculated as follows:
step one: 3 + 5 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 8 + 9 + 1 = 33;
step two: 3 + 3 = 6; therefore the verification digit is 6.Therefore, the final unique identifier then becomes - CED-AB891-6. 5.  6. 
SECTION B The provisions of section A of this Annex shall apply to micro-organisms and animals unless another format for a unique identifier is adopted internationally and  implemented in  Great Britain.