Guidance

Defra privacy notice: regulation of precision bred organisms

How Defra will handle personal data when processing precision breeding release and marketing notices.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 10 November 2025

Applies to England

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Defra privacy notice: regulation of precision bred organisms

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This privacy notice explains how:

• we will handle personal data we receive when processing precision breeding release and marketing notices

• this information will be treated when fulfilling our statutory requirement to establish and maintain a precision breeding register, in accordance with the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 and the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025

If you have any queries about the content of this privacy notice, please email genetictechnologies@defra.gov.uk.

Published 10 November 2025