{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/271",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Traceability and Labelling) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "SPECIFIED COMMUNITY PROVISIONS",
  "text": "Provision of the Council Regulation\nSubject Matter\nArticle 4(1)\nObligation to ensure, at the first stage of placing on the market of a product consisting of or containing GMOs, that the information specified in Article 4(1) is transmitted in writing to the operator receiving the product.\nArticle 4(2)\nObligation to ensure, at subsequent stages of placing on the market, that the information specified in Article 4(1) is transmitted in writing to the operator receiving the product.\nArticle 4(3)\nObligation to ensure that products consisting of or containing GMOs to be used only and directly as food or feed or for processing are accompanied either by the information specified in Article 4(1)(b) or by a declaration of use, accompanied by a list of the unique identifiers for all those GMOs used to constitute the mixture.\nArticle 4(4)\nObligation to keep records of the information referred to in paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Article 4 for a period of five years.\nArticle 4(6)\nObligation to ensure that the information specified in Article 4(6) appears on the labels of products consisting of or containing GMOs.\nArticle 5(1)\nObligation to ensure, when placing products produced from GMOs on the market, that the information specified in Article 5(1) is transmitted in writing to the operator receiving the product.\nArticle 5(2)\nObligation to keep records of the information referred to in Article 5(1) for a period of five years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. in operation at 30.6.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/271/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:08.297876+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."
}