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EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 31st March 2003

Coming into operation 15th April 2003

The Department of the Environment, being a Department designated^f1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 in relation to measures relating to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: