{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1829/article-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1829/article-44.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2003/1829",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1829",
  "path": "article/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Information to be provided in accordance with the Cartagena Protocol",
  "text": "1. Any authorisation, ... modification, suspension or revocation of authorisation of a GMO, food or feed referred to in Articles 3(1)(a) or (b) or 15(1)(a) or (b) shall be notified by the Food Safety Authority to the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol through the biosafety clearing house in accordance with Article 11(1) or Article 12(1) of the Cartagena Protocol, as the case may be.\nThe Food Safety Authority shall provide a copy of the information, in writing, to the national focal point of each Party that informs the Secretariat in advance that it does not have access to the biosafety clearing house.\n2. The Food Safety Authority shall also process requests for additional information made by any Party in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Cartagena Protocol and shall provide copies of the laws, regulations and guidelines in accordance with Article 11(5) of that Protocol.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 44(1) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 14(14) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 44 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/705), reg. 38A (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1504, regs. 1(2), 17(8))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1829/article/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:53.433470+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."
}