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are not cross-contaminated or mixed with GMO dealings that are required to be contained in an authorised PC2 physical containment facility; and
          * the above procedures are documented.

      1.2.0.2           If the above documented procedures to prevent cross-contamination are not in place, then PC1 dealings conducted in an authorised PC2 physical containment facility must be transported in accordance with the PC2 transport requirements below.

       1.2.1 PC2 General Requirements

These General Requirements apply to all dealings with GMOs to which Part 1.2 of these guidelines apply. Where any Specific Requirements (Parts 1.2.2, 1.2.3 and 1.2.4) applicable to the dealings conflicts with a General Requirement, the Specific Requirement prevails.

Labelling

      1.2.1.1           A person or accredited organisation supplying the GMO for transport must label the material to be transported in a manner capable of notifying any other handler of the material that the item to be transported is, or contains a GMO.

      1.2.1.2           The outermost container must be labelled to clearly show the name, address and contact details of the sender, so that the sender can be contacted should the container be lost, damaged or misdirected.

This is not required where transport takes place entirely within a building, or when clinical or infectious waste containing viable GMOs is being transported to a place of decontamination by a transport, storage or disposal service provider licensed or otherwise authorised to do so under state or territory legislation.

Loss, spill or escape of GMOs during transport
      1.2.1.3           In the event of the escape, unintentional release, spill, leak, or loss of GMOs, including failure of the GMOs to be delivered to the recipient:
          * efforts must be implemented as soon as reasonably practicable to locate and/or retrieve the GMOs and return the GMOs to containment or render them non-viable; and
          * the incident must be reported to the Regulator as soon as reasonably practicable.

NOTE: A person consigning the GMO for transport should consider whether the transported material should be accompanied by:
          * instructions on how to decontaminate any material in the event of a spill or leak;
          * sufficient volume of effective decontamination agent to decontaminate any spill;
          * appropriate protective clothing for persons undertaking the decontamination; and
          * any other equipment necessary to undertake decontamination.

Accounting requirements
      1.2.1.4           Procedures must be in place to ensure that all GMOs or, for micro-organisms and cell cultures, the number of primary containers of cultures of GMOs transported, can be accounted for and that a loss of GMOs during transport, or the failure of delivery, can be detected. These procedures must be implemented for all transport events, except where transport takes place entirely within a building and the GMOs are accompanied by a person or class of persons mentioned in