COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 65/2004of 14 January 2004establishing a system for the development and assignment of unique identifiers for geneticallymodified organismsTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003, of the Euro-pean Parliament and of the Council, of 22 September 2003,concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically modifiedorganisms and the traceability of food and feed productsproduced from genetically modified organisms and amendingDirective 2001/18/EC (1), and in particular Article 8 thereof,Whereas:(1) Regulation (EC) No 1830/2003 lays down a harmonisedframework for the traceability of genetically modifiedorganisms, hereinafter ‘GMOs’, and of food and feedproducts produced from GMOs through the transmis-sion and holding of relevant information by operatorsfor such products at each stage of their placing on themarket.(2) Under that Regulation, an operator ...