Part 2: Precision Bred Organisms, Release, Marketing, and Risk Assessments Register 18: Precision breeding register
This section refers to the Precision Breeding Register. Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State must establish and maintain a register and prescribes the information the register must contain.
	Subsection (2) provides for the Secretary of State not to include information in the register if they determine that such information is commercially confidential, subject to subsection (4).
	Subsection (3) explains the circumstances of the requirements in subsection (2) cease to apply when the Secretary of State determines that the information is no longer commercially confidential.
	Subsection (4) provides that neither the name of any person giving the notices and required information mentioned in subsection (1)(a) nor the general description of any precision bred organism are considered to be commercially confidential.
	Subsection (5) provides for the Secretary of State to ensure the register is accessible to the public, free of charge, in electronic form.
	Subsection (6) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations for the keeping of the register.
	Subsection (7) specifies that regulations made under subsection (1) are subject to the affirmative procedure.
	Subsection (8) specifies that regulations made under subsection (6) are subject to the negative procedure.