{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-18/annex-II/division-C/division-C.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-18/annex-II/division-C/division-C.2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2001/18",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-18",
  "path": "annex/II/division/C/division/C.2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "C.2",
  "heading": "Characteristics of the GMO and of the releases",
  "text": "The e.r.a. shall take into account the relevant technical and scientific details regarding characteristics of:\nthe recipient or parental organism(s),\nthe genetic modification(s), be it insertion or deletion of genetic material, and relevant information on the vector and the donor,\nthe GMO,\nthe intended release or use including its scale,\nthe potential receiving environment(s) into which the GMO will be released and into which the transgene may spread, and\nthe interaction(s) between these characteristics.\nRelevant information from previous releases of the same or similar GMOs and organisms with similar traits and their biotic and abiotic interaction with similar receiving environments, including information resulting from the monitoring of such organisms, shall be considered in the e.r.a., subject to Article 6(3) or Article 13(4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive (EU) 2018/350 of 8 March 2018 amending Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2001/18/annex/II/division/C/division/C.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:00.934371+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."
}