Movement of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms

Document 2025-10797 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on June 16, 2025, with an effective date of June 16, 2025. On December 2, 2024, a Federal court vacated the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) final rule issued on May 18, 2020 (the May 2020 final rule) that revised APHIS' regulations governing the movement of certain genetically modified organisms and was issued under the authority of the Plant Protection Act. APHIS is therefore amending the CFR to conform the CFR to the Federal Court's vacatur of that rule. The Court's vacatur was effective December 2, 2024, and had the legal effect of vacating the May 2020 final rule in its entirety and restoring the legal effect of the pre-May 2020 regulations. These technical conforming amendments revise the CFR to reflect the court's vacatur of the May 2020 final rule. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/16/2025-10797/movement-of-certain-genetically-engineered-organisms.

No. Document 2025-10797 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.