Brussels, 16/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - At an initiative by Margot Wallström, the Commission has defined in a regulation adopted on its own authority the system that will allow food chain operators to identify genetically modified organisms present in food and feed produced on the basis of GMOs. The regulation will allow single identifiers to be developed and attributed to GMOs. Article 8 of the regulation on the traceability and labelling of GMOs in food and feed required such a system. In accordance with this regulation, any operator who markets products with GMO ingredients is under an obligation to state among the information required for traceability the single indicator attributed to each GMO, in order to point out the presence of the same. The 2001 directive, a framework text for the voluntary dissemination of GMOs into the environment and the marketing approval procedures on GMOs, stipulates that the autorisation for market approval granted to any GMO must specify the single identifier attributed to that GMO.