Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2450 of 21 December 2017 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified soybean DAS-44406-6, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed (notified under document C(2017) 9042) (Text with EEA relevance. )

Article 1

Genetically modified organism and unique identifier

Genetically modified soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) DAS-44406-6 (hereinafter ‘soybean DAS-44406-6’), as specified in point (b) of the Annex to this Decision, is assigned the unique identifier DAS-444Ø6-6, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 65/2004.

Article 2

Authorisation

The following products are authorised for the purposes of Article 4(2) and Article 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 DAS-44406-6;

• (b) feed containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean DAS-44406-6;

• (c) soybean DAS-44406-6 in products containing it or consisting of it for any other use than those provided in points (a) and (b), with the exception of cultivation.

Article 3

Labelling

Article 4

Monitoring plan for environmental effects

Article 5

Method for detection

The method set out in point (d) of the Annex shall apply for the detection of soybean DAS-44406-6.

Article 6

Community register

The information set out in the Annex 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 7

Authorisation holders

The authorisation holder shall be Corteva Agriscience LLC, United States, and M.S. Technologies LLC, United States, both represented in the Union by Corteva Agriscience Belgium BV.

Article 8

Validity

This Decision shall apply for a period of 10 years from the date of its notification.

Article 9

Addressees

This Decision is addressed to Corteva Agriscience LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-1054, United States and to M.S. Technologies LLC, 103 Avenue D West Point, IA 52656, United States, represented in the Union by Corteva Agriscience Belgium BV, Bedrijvenlaan 9, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium.

ANNEX

• (a) Authorisation holders:

• represented in the Union by Corteva Agriscience Belgium BV, Bedrijvenlaan 9, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium;

• and

• represented in the Union by Corteva Agriscience Belgium BV, Bedrijvenlaan 9, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium.

• (b) Designation and specification of the products:

• (1) foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean DAS-44406-6;

• (2) feed containing, consisting of, or produced from soybean DAS-44406-6;

• (3) soybean DAS-44406-6 in products containing it or consisting of it for any other use than those provided in points (1) and (2), with the exception of cultivation.

• Soybean DAS-44406-6 expresses the 2mEPSPS protein, which confers tolerance to glyphosate-based herbicides, the AAD-12 protein, which confers tolerance to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and other related phenoxy herbicides, and the PAT protein, which confers tolerance to glufosinate ammonium-based herbicides.

• (c) Labelling:

• (1) For the purposes of the labelling requirements laid down in Article 13(1) and Article 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 the accompanying documents of the products containing or consisting of soybean DAS-44406-6, with the exception of foods and food ingredients.

• (d) Method for detection:

• (1) Event specific real-time quantitative PCR based method for DAS-44406-6 soybean; the detection method is validated on the single-trait event using genomic DNA extracted from seeds of DAS-44406-6 soybean;

• (2) Validated by the EU Reference Laboratory established under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, published at http://gmo-crl.jrc.ec.europa.eu;

• (3) Reference Material: ERM®-BF436 accessible via the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.

• (e) Unique identifier:

• DAS-444Ø6-6.

• (f) Information required under Annex II to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity:

• [Biosafety Clearing-House, Record ID number: published in the Community register of genetically modified food and feed when notified].

• (g) Conditions or restrictions on the placing on the market, use or handling of the products:

• Not required.

• (h) Monitoring plan for environmental effects:

• Monitoring plan for environmental effects conforming with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC.

• [Link: plan published in the Community register of genetically modified food and feed]

• (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.