{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348269123",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Marketing of food and feed produced from precision bred organisms - requirement for authorisation",
  "text": "(1) No person may place on the market in England food or feed produced from a precision bred organism unless—\n(a) a food and feed marketing authorisation in respect of the precision bred organism used to produce the food or feed has been issued by the Secretary of State under this Part,\n(b) any conditions or limitations to which the food and feed marketing authorisation is subject are met, and\n(c) the food and feed marketing authorisation has not been revoked.\n(2) A precision bred organism under paragraph (1) must be—\n(a) a marketable precision bred organism, or\n(b) the qualifying progeny of a marketable precision bred organism.\n(3) A food and feed marketing authorisation in respect of a precision bred organism includes the authorisation of the qualifying progeny of that organism provided that any features of the qualifying progeny resulting from the application of modern biotechnology are inherited from—\n(a) that precision bred organism, or\n(b) another precision bred organism in respect of which a food and feed marketing authorisation is in force.\n(4) Qualifying progeny are subject to all of the conditions and limitations of every food and feed marketing authorisation by virtue of which they are authorised under paragraph (3)(a) and, where it applies, paragraph (3)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30(3) of the Act makes provision about the meaning of food or feed being placed on the market."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Marketable precision bred organism” is defined in section 5(2) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Qualifying progeny” is defined in section 24 of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348269123/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:31.398204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}