This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from six months after the date of publication of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 September 2003.
For the European Parliament
The President
P. Cox
For the Council
The President
R. Buttiglione
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ANNEX
DUTIES AND TASKS OF THE COMMUNITY REFERENCE LABORATORY
1. The Community reference laboratory referred to in Article 32 is the Commission's Joint Research Centre.
2. For the tasks outlined in this Annex, the Commission's Joint Research Centre shall be assisted by a consortium of national reference laboratories, which will be referred to as the "European Network of GMO laboratories".
3. The Community reference laboratory shall be responsible, in particular, for:
- reception, preparation, storage, maintenance and distribution to national reference laboratories of the appropriate positive and negative control samples,
- testing and validation of the method for detection, including sampling and identification of the transformation event and, where applicable, for the detection and identification of the transformation event in the food or feed,
- evaluating the data provided by the applicant for authorisation for placing the food or feed on the market, for the purpose of testing and validation of the method for sampling and detection,
- submitting full evaluation reports to the Authority.
4. The Community reference laboratory shall play a role in dispute settlements between Member States concerning the results of the tasks outlined in this Annex.