Commission Decision of 28 March 2008 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified maize GA21 (MON-ØØØ21-9) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2008) 1112) (Only the French text is authentic) (2008/280/EC) (c. 280)

ANNEX U.K.

(a) Applicant and Authorisation holder: U.K.

Name

:

Syngenta Seeds S.A.S.

Address

:

Chemin de l’Hobit 12, BP 27, F-31790 Saint-Sauveur, France

On behalf of Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH 4058 Basle, Switzerland

(b) Designation and specification of the products: U.K.

(1)

Foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from MON-ØØØ21-9 maize;

(2)

Feed containing, consisting of, or produced from MON-ØØØ21-9 maize;

(3)

Products other than food and feed containing or consisting of MON-ØØØ21-9 maize for the same uses as any other maize with the exception of cultivation.

The genetically modified maize MON-ØØØ21-9, as described in the application, expresses the mEPSPS protein which confers tolerance to herbicide glyphosate

(c) Labelling: U.K.

(1) 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 ‘maize’. U.K.

(2) The words ‘not for cultivation’ shall appear on the label of and in documents accompanying products containing or consisting of MON-ØØØ21-9 maize referred to in Article 2(b) and (c). U.K.

(d) Method for detection: U.K.

• Event specific real-time quantitative PCR based methods for genetically modified maize MON-ØØØ21-9,

• Validated by the Community reference laboratory established under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, published at http://gmo-crl.jrc.it/statusofdoss.htm

• Reference Material: AOCS 0407-A and AOCS 0407-B accessible via the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) at http://www.aocs.org

(e) Unique identifier: U.K.

MON-ØØØ21-9

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

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: U.K.

Not required.

(h) Monitoring plan U.K.

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 U.K.

Not required.

Note: links to relevant documents may need to be modified overtime. Those modifications will be made available to the public via the updating of the Community register of genetically modified food and feed. U.K.