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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1900",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release and Risk Assessment-Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement Commission Directive 97/35/EC (OJ No. L 169, 27.6.97, p. 72) adapting to technical progress for the second time Council Directive 90/220/EEC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms, by amending the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/3280) (The 1992 Regulations). Regulation 3 substitutes the Schedule to these Regulations for Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations.\nIn addition, these Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations to take account of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 (OJ No. L 43, 14.2.97, p. 1) concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients (the Novel Foods Regulation), with regard to the cases and circumstances in which a marketing consent is required under the 1992 Regulations.\nFinally, these Regulations also amend the Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment) (Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/1106) to take account of the Novel Foods Regulation with regard to exemptions from the requirement to carry out risk assessments.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1900/note",
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  "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."
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