EU marketing authorisation for Monsanto's GM maize NK 603 (OJ link)

Brussels, 21 June 2005

Commission Decision of 3 March 2005 authorising the placing on the market of foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize line NK 603 as novel foods or novel food ingredients under Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2005) 580) (OJ L158/20 21.6.2005).
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Article 1
Foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize line NK 603 (hereinafter referred to as the products), as designated and specified in the Annex, may be placed on the Community market as novel foods or novel food ingredients.

Article 2
The products shall be labelled as 'genetically modified maize' or 'produced from genetically modified maize' in accordance with the labelling requirements laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 .

Article 3
The products and the information included in the Annex shall be entered in the Community register of genetically modified food and feed.

Article 4
This Decision is addressed to Monsanto Europe SA, Avenue de Tervuren 0-2, B-1150 Brussels, Belgium, representing the Monsanto Company, United States of America. It shall be valid for a period of 10 years.

Done at Brussels, 3 March 2005.