Resources
This page contains links to sources of HSE information and guidance on genetically modified organisms.
The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 form
Free leaflets
- Contained use of genetically modified organisms
- Contained use of genetically modified organisms - excluding information for the public register
Publications
- 3-year report from the UK Competent Authorities on experiences arising from the implementation of Directive 98/81/EC, which amended Directive 90/219/EEC
- A guide to the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000
- The SACGM Compendium of Guidance
- Infections at work publications
Guidance
- Disclosure of Notified Data for GMO's and the FOI Act
- The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
- Sealability of Microbiological Containment Level 3 and 4 Facilities
- Containment of GM plant viruses being developed as gene technology vectors NEW
Articles Published in ACGM Newsletters
Notifications
- Fees
- Notification Forms
- Notifying accidents
- Updating Centre contact details
- A checklist to avoid the most common mistakes in notifications
- Administrative and other changes to notified information
- Confidentiality and disclosure of notified data (NB This has now been superseded by : Disclosure of Notified Data for GMO's and the FOI Act)
- Excluding information from the public register
- Interim guidance on connected programmes
Risk assessment
- Format for risk assessment of GMMs
- European risk assessment guidance
- Interim guidance on RA GMMs eliciting altered immune response
- Incidents - Lessons to be learnt from a laboratory-acquired vaccinia virus infection
General
- European and international activities related to the contained use of genetically modified organisms
- New Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations (2002) - What the amendments to the biological agents provisions mean for you
Advisory Committees
Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification (ACGM) and Scientific Advisory Comittee on Genetic Modification
ACGM Newsletters
N.B. Except for the latest edition the newsletters in this section are not necessarily current information. Any links or URLs contained within some of the older newsletter may no longer work, and some of the pages referred to may no longer be extant.
ACGM Reports
- ACGM Fourth annual report (December 2003)
- ACGM third annual report (March 2002)
- ACGM second annual report (March 2001)
- ACGM first annual report (March 2000)
