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Precision Breeding

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/6/pdfs/ukpga_20230006_en.pdf

Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023

2023 CHAPTER 6

An Act to make provision about the release and marketing of, and risk assessments relating to, precision bred plants and animals, and the marketing of food and feed produced from such plants and animals; and for connected purposes. [23rd March 2023]

BE IT ENACTED by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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PART 1

PRECISION BREEDING: DEFINITIONS

Precision bred organism

(1) In this Act “precision bred organism” means a precision bred plant or a precision bred animal.

(2) For the purposes of this Act an organism is “precision bred” if—

(a) any feature of its genome results from the application of modern biotechnology,

(b) every feature of its genome that results from the application of modern biotechnology is stable,

(c) every feature of its genome that results from the application of modern biotechnology could have resulted from traditional processes, whether or not in conjunction with selection techniques, alone, and

(d) its genome does not contain any feature that results from the application of any artificial modification technique other than modern genome does not contain any feature that results from the application of any artificial modification technique other than modern Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023