{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-503/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-503/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/503",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 503/2013 of 3 April 2013 on applications for authorisation of genetically modified food and feed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 641/2004 and (EC) No 1981/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-503",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Requirements concerning the methods of detection, identification and quantification and for control samples and reference material of genetically modified food or feed for applications submitted under Articles 5(3) and 17(3)",
  "text": "1. Applications submitted under Articles 5(1) and 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 shall comply with the following requirements, as referred to in Article 5(3)(i) and (j) and Article 17(3)(i) and (j) of that Regulation, and set out in Annex III to this Regulation, for:\n(a) the methods for detection and identification of the transformation event;\n(b) samples of food or feed and their control samples, and information as to the place where the reference material can be accessed.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8(2) omitted (E.W.S.) (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), 16(3)(b) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 16(3)(a) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/503/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:39.117159+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."
}