Ministry of Social Affairs and Health N.B. Unofficial translation. Legally valid only in Finnish and Swedish No. 928/2004 Government Decree on Gene Technology Issued in Helsinki on 28 October 2004 Definitions Section 1 Genetically modified organisms Genetically modified organisms within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Gene Technology Act (377/1995) are organisms that have been obtained, inter alia, by the following techniques or methods: 1) recombinant nucleic acid techniques involving the formation of new combinations of genetic material by the insertion of nucleic acid molecules produced by whatever means outside an organism, into any virus, plasmid or other vector system and their incorporation into a host organism in which they do not naturally occur but in which they are capable of continued propagation; 2) techniques involving the direct introduction into an organism of heritable material prepared or modified outside the organism, including micro-injection, macro-inject...