{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-41/annex-III/division-B/division-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-41/annex-III/division-B/division-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/41",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (Recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-41",
  "path": "annex/III/division/B/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "In general, only GMMs which show the following characteristics would be considered appropriate for inclusion in class 1 as defined in Article 4(3):",
  "text": "(i) the recipient or parental micro-organism is unlikely to cause disease to humans, animals or plants;\n(ii) the nature of the vector and the insert is such that they do not endow the GMM with a phenotype likely to cause disease to humans, animals or plants, or likely to have deleterious effects on the environment;\n(iii) the GMM is unlikely to cause disease to humans, animals or plants and is unlikely to have deleterious effects on the environment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This would only apply to animals and plants in the environment likely to be exposed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/41/annex/III/division/B/division/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:13.429635+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."
}