Without having the status of formal law, the various bodies of the European Administration, foremost the EU Commission, issue documents that can serve as guides or even as binding interpretations of formal regulations or directives.
(A) EU Commission Report of 25.10.2006 on Experiences with Regulations (EC) No. 1829 & 1830/2003 (see also in EU Regulations)
(B) EU Commission MEMO 04/85 of 15.04.2004: Questions and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the European Union
(C) The EU Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH):
- Summary Record of the Meeting held 16 June 2008 (Section Genetically Modified Food & Feed and Environmental Risk) - ENGLISH only.
See item no. 7 for a (short, yet officially binding) legal definition of the terms “adventitious” and “technically unavoidable” that are relevant for the interpretation of the criteria for the so-called labeling threshold of 0.9% GMO content in EU Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 [ibid. Art. 12(3) and 24(3)].