Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993
3. In Part II, Article 19 (Restriction on the planting of potatoes) after paragraph (1) insert—
“(1A) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a person shall not knowingly plant or knowingly cause or permit to be planted any potatoes unless they derive in direct line from potato material which has been obtained under an officially approved programme within the European Community or Switzerland and which has been found to be free from Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al. in official tests using the method set out in Annex II of Directive 98/57/EC.”