S.L. 549.60 Art. 27Publication of Schedules in the English language. PART 1 Techniques GMO in (1) (2) (3)

The Schedules I to IX to these regulations are being published in the English language with the English text of these regulations. SCHEDULE I A

Techniques referred to in the definition of GMO in regulation 2

of genetic modification referred to in paragraph (a) in the definition of regulation 2 are inter alia: recombinant nucleic acid techniques involving the formation of new combinations of genetic material by the insertion of nucleic acid molecules produced by whatever means outside an organism, into any virus, bacterial plasmid or other vector system and their incorporation into a host organism in which they do not naturally occur but in which they are capable of continued propagation; techniques involving the direct introduction into an organism of heritable material prepared outside the organism including microinjection, macro-injection and microencapsulation; cell fusion (including protoplast fusion) or hybridisation techniques where live cells with new combinations of heritable genetic material are formed through the fusion of two or more cells by means of methods that do not occur naturally.