Regulation 4 Amendment of the provisions relating to applications for consent to release

In regulation 2 of the 1992 Regulations (interpretation) there shall be inserted—

In paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the 1992 Regulations (Consent to release organisms), after the words “the Secretary of State, and” there shall be inserted the words “, unless made under and in accordance with the provisions set out in the First Simplified Procedure (crop plants) Decision,”.

In sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 6 of the 1992 Regulations after the words “appropriate to the proposed release” there shall be added the words “or application”.

In paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations (Advertisement of application for consent to release), for the words “Subject to paragraph (2)”, there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraphs (1A) and (2)”.

After paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

“(1A)

A notice published under paragraph (1) above need not contain the information referred to in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of that paragraph insofar as the First Simplified Procedure (crop plants) Decision does not require that information to be submitted with the application and that information is not submitted with the application.”

In paragraph (3) of regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations, after the words “the information prescribed in paragraph in paragraph (1)(a) to (d)” there shall be inserted the words “,save insofar as paragraph (1A) permits such information to be excluded from the notice referred to in paragraph (1)”.