The Seed Potatoes (Wales) Regulations 2016

PART 2 Pre-basic seed potatoes

4.—(1) No growing crop certificate may be issued containing a statement that seed potatoes are capable of being marketed as pre-basic seed potatoes of any grade unless the authorised officer is satisfied that the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown—

(a) is land which, as a result of a soil test carried out by the Welsh Ministers prior to the planting of the crop, has been found not to be contaminated with Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera species infesting potatoes);

(b) is not demarcated under [F1 Part 4 of Schedule 2 to the Official Controls (Plant Health) Regulations] as infested with a European population of Potato Cyst Nematode; and

(c) has not been used for growing potatoes at any time during the seven years immediately preceding the planting of the crop.

(2) But sub-paragraph (1)(a) does not apply in the case of seed potatoes grown in a soil-free medium.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (27.3.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/206), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(4)(b)

5.  No growing crop certificate may be issued containing a statement that seed potatoes are capable of being marketed as pre-basic seed potatoes of [F2 GB] grade PBTC unless the authorised officer is satisfied that the immediately succeeding crop produced from the seed potatoes is not likely to contain—

(a) plants of a different variety; or

(b) plants affected by mild or severe virus.

Textual Amendments

F2 Word in Sch. 1 para. 5 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/738, reg. 2(12)(b) (as substituted by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1573), regs. 1(2)(b), 2(3)(j))

6.  No growing crop certificate may be issued containing a statement that seed potatoes are capable of being marketed as pre-basic seed potatoes of [F3 GB] grade PB unless the authorised officer is satisfied that the immediately succeeding crop produced from the seed potatoes is not likely to contain—

(a) more than 0.01% by number of growing plants which deviate from variety and type or are a different variety; or

(b) more than 0.5% by number of growing plants which show symptoms of virus diseases where those symptoms are attributable to infection in the mother crop.

Textual Amendments

F3 Word in Sch. 1 para. 6 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/738, reg. 2(12)(b) (as substituted by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1573), regs. 1(2)(b), 2(3)(j))