13.11.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 302/47 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 6 November 2013 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of, or produced from genetically modified (GM) maize MON 89034 x 1507 x MON88017 x 59122 (MON-89@34-3 x DAS-@1507-1 x MON-88017-3 x DAS-59122-7), four related GM maizes combining three different single GM events (MON89034 x 1507 x MON88017 (MON-89034-3 x DAS-@1507-1 x MON- 88017-3), MONS89034 x 1507 x 59122 (MON-89034-3 x DAS-@1507-1 x DAS-59122-7), MONS89034 x MONS88017 x 59122 (MON-89034-3 x MON-88017-3 x DAS-59122-7), 1507 x MON 88017 x 59122 (DAS-@1507-1 x MON-88017-3 x DAS-59122-7)) and four related GM maizes combining two different single GM events (MON89034 x 1507 (MON-89034-3 x DAS- 01507-1), MON89034 x 59122 (MON-89034-3 x DAS-59122-7), 1507 x MONS88017 (DAS- 01507-1 x MON-88017-3), MON 88017 x 59122 (MON-88017-3 x DAS-59122-7)) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2013) 4755) (Only the Dutch, English and French texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/650/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC (3 and information and conclusions about the risk assessment carried out in accordance with the principles set out in Annex II to Directive 2001/18/EC. It also includes a monitoring plan for environmental effects conforming with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC. 2003 on genetically modified food and feed (), and in (3)  GM crop plants which contain two or more different particular Article 7(3) and Article 19(3) thereof, single GM events are called GM stacks. The harvest from maize GM stacks has specific features due to the reproductive biology of maize. When for example seeds Whereas: of a maize GM stack with four different single GM events ’ are cultivated, the resulting harvest contains not just grains with all four different GM events, but also grains containing only one, two or three different single GM (1)  On 24 October 2008, Dow AgroSciences Ltd on behalf events, and grains that do not contain any of the four of Dow AgroSciences LLC and Monsanto Europe S.A. on single GM events (negative segregants). behalf of Monsanto Company submitted to the competent authority of the Czech Republic an appli- cation, in accordance with Article 5 and Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 18292003, for the placing on the (4)  Each of the GM maizes with a single GM event, and each mark.et- of foods, food ingredients, and feed containing, of the combinations of the single GM events, are to be consisting of, or produceq from MON89034 x 1507 x considered as being a specific GMO in the meaning of MONB88017 x 59122 maize (the application’). The Article 3(1) and Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No application also covers all.po.ssible combinations of the 1829/2003. According to Article 4(2) and Article 16(2) single GM events constituting MON89034 x 1507 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, no GMO for food use MONB88017 x 59122 maize. or food referred in Article 3(1) or for feed use or feed referred in Article 15(1) can be placed on the market unless it is covered by an authorisation granted in (2)  The application also covers the placing on the market of accordance with the.Regulatlo.rl. It should the-refore be products other than food and feed containing or ensured that. a11.p0§s1ble comblqatmns of the single GM consisting of these GM maizes for the same uses as events constituting it are authorised when the GM stack any other maize with the exception of cultivation. is authorised. Therefore, in accordance with Article 5(5) and Article 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, it includes the data and information required by Annexes Il and IV to Directive 2001/18/EC of the European (5) A prerequisite for the risk assessment of a GM stack is Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on () O] L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 1. the risk assessment of the single GM events constituting () O] L 106, 17.4.2001, p. 1.