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  "heading": "Characteristics of donor, parental and recipient organisms",
  "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, 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) pathogencity, including infectivity, toxigenicity, virulence, allergenicity, 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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