The Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 are being made under Section 8(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to ensure the effective functioning of retained EU law concerning genetically modified (GM) food and animal feed (‘feed’) in the UK after EU Exit. The instrument amends the following retained EU law to correct deficiencies that arise as a consequence of the UK’s exit from the EU: Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 (framework regulation on genetically modified food and feed); Commission Regulation (EC) No 641/2004 (detailed rules on applications for authorisation of new GM food and feed and adventitious or technically unavoidable presence of authorised GM material, and 68 Commission Decisions authorising GM food and/or feed events for placing on the market, or withdrawing such authorisations and providing transitional arrangements which will be extant when the UK exits the EU. The instrument also revokes Commission Regulation (EC) No 1981/2006 (detailed rules regarding the Community reference laboratory for GM organisms) which will become redundant when the UK exits the EU.
