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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-regulations-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2443",
  "legislation_title": "Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 2002",
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  "number": "12",
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  "text": "The following pathological, ecological and physiological traits—\n(a) the classification of hazard according to existing Community rules concerning the protection of human health and the environment;\n(b) the generation time in natural ecosystems and the sexual and asexual reproductive cycle;\n(c) information on survivability, including seasonability and the ability to form survival structures, including seeds, spores and sclerotia;\n(d) pathogenicity, including infectivity, toxigenicity, virulence, allergenicity, ability to act as a carrier (vector) of pathogen, possible vectors, host range including non-target organisms and possible activation of latent viruses (proviruses) and ability to colonise other organisms;\n(e) antibiotic resistance, and potential use of these antibiotics in humans and domestic organisms for prophylaxis and therapy;\n(f) involvement in environmental processes, including primary production, nutrient turnover, decomposition of organic matter and respiration.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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