Pursuant to section 26 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (“Act”), the Environmental Protection Authority hereby determines that

Acetobacter aceti (Pasteur 1864) Beijerinck 1898

Kluyveromyces lactis (Dombrowski) van der Walt 1971

are not new organisms for the purposes of the Act.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of September 2016.

LOUISE MALONE, Chair, Decision-making Committee of the Authority.