LegalizeCommission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/700 of 24 April 2015 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified soybean MON87708 (MON-877Ø8-9) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2015) 2785) (Text with EEA relevance)
Article 1
Genetically modified organism and unique identifier
Genetically modified soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) MON87708, as specified in point (b) of the Annex to this Decision, is assigned the unique identifier MON-877Ø8-9, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 65/2004.
Article 2
Authorisation
The following products are authorised for the purposes of Articles 4(2) and 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 in accordance with the conditions set out in this Decision:
- (a) foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean MON-877Ø8-9;
- (b) feed containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean MON-877Ø8-9;
- (c) soybean MON-877Ø8-9 in products containing it or consisting of it for any other use than (a) and (b), with the exception of cultivation.
Article 3
Labelling
For the purposes of the labelling requirements laid down in Articles 13(1) and 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and in Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003, the ‘name of the organism’ shall be ‘soybean’.
The words ‘not for cultivation’ shall appear on the label of and in documents accompanying products containing or consisting of soybean MON-877Ø8-9 with the exception of products referred to in point (a) of Article 2.
Article 4
Monitoring for environmental effects
The authorisation holder shall ensure that the monitoring plan for environmental effects, as set out in point (h) of the Annex, is put in place and implemented.
The authorisation holder shall submit to the Commission annual reports on the implementation and the results of the activities set out in the monitoring plan in accordance with Decision 2009/770/EC.
Article 5
Community register
The information set out in the Annex to this Decision shall be entered in the Community register of genetically modified food and feed, as provided for in Article 28 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.
Article 6
Authorisation holder
The authorisation holder shall be Bayer Agriculture BV, Belgium, representing Bayer CropScience LP, United States.
Article 7
Validity
This Decision shall apply for a period of 10 years from the date of its notification.
Article 8
Addressee
This Decision is addressed to Bayer Agriculture BV, Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerp, Belgium.
ANNEX
(a) Applicant and Authorisation holder
| Name | : | Bayer Agriculture BV |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | : | Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerp, Belgium |
On behalf of Bayer CropScience LP, 800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63167, United States.
(b) Designation and specification of the products
- (1) foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean MON-877Ø8-9;
- (2) feed containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean MON-877Ø8-9;
- (3) soybean MON-877Ø8-9 in products containing it or consisting of it for any other use than 1 and 2, with the exception of cultivation.
The genetically modified soybean MON-877Ø8-9, as described in the application, expresses the DMO (dicamba mono-oxygenase) proteins which confer tolerance to dicamba-based herbicides.
(c) Labelling
- (1) for the purposes of the specific labelling requirements laid down in Articles 13(1) and 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, and in Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003, the ‘name of the organism’ shall be ‘soybean’;
- (2) the words ‘not for cultivation’ shall appear on the label of and in documents accompanying products containing or consisting of soybean MON-877Ø8-9 with the exception of products referred to in point (a) of Article 2.
(d) Method for detection
- — event-specific real-time PCR based method for the quantification of soybean MON-877Ø8-9,
- — validated on genomic DNA, extracted from seeds, by the EU Reference Laboratory established under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, published at http://gmo-crl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/statusofdossiers.aspx
- — Reference Material: AOCS 0311-A and AOCS 0906-A are accessible via the American Oil Chemists Society at http://www.aocs.org/tech/crm
(e) Unique identifier
MON-877Ø8-9
(f) Information required under Annex II to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Biosafety Clearing-House, Record ID: see [to be completed when notified].
(g) Conditions or restrictions on the placing on the market, use or handling of the products
Not required.
(h) Monitoring plan
Monitoring plan for environmental effects conforming with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC.
[Link: plan published on the internet]
(i) Post market monitoring requirements for the use of the food for human consumption
Not required.
Note: Links to relevant documents may need to be modified over the time. Those modifications will be made available to the public via the updating of the Community register of genetically modified food and feed.
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