Commission Implementing Directive 2014/21/EUDangos y teitl llawn

Commission Implementing Directive 2014/21/EU of 6 February 2014 determining minimum conditions and Union grades for pre-basic seed potatoes (Text with EEA relevance)

[F1Article 3 U.K. Minimum conditions for lots of pre-basic seed potatoes

Member States shall provide that lots of pre-basic seed potatoes shall satisfy the following minimum conditions:

(a)

presence of earth and extraneous matter shall not exceed 1,0  % by mass;

(b)

the number of potatoes affected by rots, other than ring rot or brown rot, shall not be present in a quantity exceeding 0,2  % by mass;

(c)

the number of potatoes with external blemishes, including misshapen or damaged tubers, shall not exceed 3,0  % by mass;

(d)

the number of potatoes affected by common scab over more than one third of their surface shall not exceed 5,0  % by mass;

(e)

shrivelled tubers due to excessive dehydration or dehydration caused by silver scurf shall not exceed 0,5  % by mass;

(f)

lots of pre-basic seed potatoes shall comply with the following requirements concerning the presence of RNQPs, or diseases caused by the respective RNQPs as set out in the table:

RNQPs or symptoms caused by RNQPs Threshold for the presence of RNQPs on the lots of pre-basic seed potato
Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum Liefting et al . [LIBEPS] 0 %
Ditylenchus destructor Thorne [DITYDE] 0 %
Black scurf affecting tubers over more than 10 % of their surface as caused by Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk [RHIZSO] 1,0  %
Powdery scab affecting tubers over more than 10 % of their surface as caused by Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh. [SPONSU] 1,0  %
(g)

the total number of potatoes, as referred to in points (b) to (f), shall not exceed 6,0  % by mass.]

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