Article 420 Ter Federal Criminal Code

A penalty of one to nine years of imprisonment and from three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who, in contravention of what is established in the applicable regulations, introduces into the country, or extracts from it, trades, transports, stores or releases into the environment, any genetically modified organism that alters or may negatively alter the components, the structure or the functioning of the natural ecosystems.

For purposes of this article, a genetically modified organism shall be understood as any organism that possesses a new combination of genetic material that has been obtained through the application of biotechnology, including those derived from genetic engineering techniques.