94/385/EC: Commission Decision of 8 June 1994 concerning the placing on the market of a product consisting of a genetically modified organism, seeds of herbicide- resistant tobacco variety ITB 1000 OX, pursuant to Article 13 of Council Directive 90/220/EEC

• CELEX: Directive 90/220/EEC
• Articles: 2

Article 1

A favourable decision is hereby taken, according to which, consent shall be given under Article 13 of Directive 90/220/EEC by the authorities of France for the placing on the market of the following product, notified by the Société nationale d'exploitation industrielle des tabacs et allumettes (Seita) (Notification number: C/F/93/08-02):

Seeds of the genetically modified Nicotiana tabacum (common name: Tobacco), variety ITB 1000 OX, male sterile hybrid, resistant to the herbicide bromoxynil and containing the nitrilase gene from Klebsiella ozaenae, the promoter RuBisCo SSU from Helianthus annuus and the nopaline synthase gene terminator from Agrobacterium tumefaciens pTiA6.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 June 1994.

For the Commission

Yannis PALEOKRASSAS

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 117, 8. 5. 1990, p. 15.

(2) OJ No L 230, 19. 8. 1991, p. 1.