{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-scotland-regulations-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-scotland-regulations-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/541",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Step 2: Long-term adverse effects and cumulative long-term adverse effects in the environmental risk assessment of applications to which Part 3 of these Regulations applies",
  "text": "(1) Long-term effects of a genetically modified organism are effects resulting either from a delayed response by organisms or their progeny to long-term or chronic exposure to a genetically modified organism or from an extensive use of a genetically modified organism in time and space.\n(2) The identification and evaluation of the potential long-term adverse effects of a genetically modified organism on human health and on the environment must take into account the following—\n(a) the long-term interactions of the genetically modified organism and the receiving environment,\n(b) the characteristics of the genetically modified organism which become important on a long- term basis, and\n(c) data obtained from repeated deliberate releases or placings on the market of the genetically modified organism over a long period.\n(3) The identification and evaluation of the potential cumulative long-term adverse effects referred to in the introduction of this schedule must also take into account the genetically modified organisms deliberately released or placed on the market in the past.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Genetically Modified Organisms (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/57), reg. 1(2)(b), sch. 1; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/541/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:58.658137+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}