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2009/244/EC: Commission Decision of 16 March 2009… Article 3

2009/244/EC: Commission Decision of 16 March 2009… Article 3

Conditions for placing on the market

Article 3

The product may be put to ornamental use only and cultivation is not allowed. The product may be placed on the market subject to the following conditions: (a) the period of validity of the consent shall be 10 years starting from the date on which the consent is issued; (b) the unique identifier of the product shall be FLO-4Ø689-6; (c) without prejudice to Article 25 of Directive 2001/18/EC, the methodology for detecting and identifying the product including experimental data demonstrating the specificity of the methodology as single-laboratory validated by the Community Reference Laboratory is publicly available at http://gmo-crl.jrc.ec.europa.eu (d) without prejudice to Article 25 of Directive 2001/18/EC, the consent holder shall, whenever requested to do so, make positive and negative control samples of the product, or its genetic material, or reference materials available to the competent authorities and inspection services of Member States as well as to Community control laboratories; (e) the words ‘This product is a genetically modified organism’ or ‘This product is a genetically modified carnation’ and the words ‘not for human or animal consumption nor for cultivation’ shall appear either on a label or in a document accompanying the product.

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