Article 1
1. Without prejudice to other Community legislation and subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the French authorities shall give consent to the placing on the market of the following product, notified by Ciba-Geigy Limited (Ref. C/F/94/11-03), in accordance with Article 13 of Directive 90/220/EEC. The product consists of inbred lines and hybrids derived from a maize (Zea mays L.) line (CG 00256-176) which has been transformed using plasmids containing: (i) one copy of the bar gene, from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, (encoding a phosphinothricin acetyltransferase), under the regulation of the 35S promoter and the 35S terminator from the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV); (ii) two copies of a synthetic truncated gene encoding an insect control protein representing the active portion of the CryIA(b) Γ€-endotoxin, from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain HD1-9 and containing intron 9 from the maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene; the first copy is under the regulation of a promoter from the maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene and the CaMV 35S terminator, and the second copy under the regulation of a promoter derived from a maize calcium-dependent protein kinase gene and the CaMV 35S terminator; (iii) the prokaryotic gene bla (coding for a Γ’-lactamase conferring resistance to ampicillin) under prokaryotic promoter. 2. The consent covers any progeny derived from crosses of this product with any traditionally bred maize. 3. Without prejudice to other labelling required by Community legislation, the label of each package of seeds shall indicate that the product: - protects itself against corn borers, and - has increased tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate-ammonium.