The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

3.  A growing crop report shall only be issued if an authorised officer is satisfied that— N.I.

(a) the seed potatoes are of a variety of potato species listed in the [F1 NI Variety List] or[F2 , before the end of the period of two years beginning with the day after the day on which exit day falls,] the Common Catalogue;

(b) the seed potatoes in any one crop are of a single variety;

(c) the seed potatoes are taken from a crop which is free from the following diseases or pests—

(i) Wart Disease;

(ii) Potato Cyst Nematode;

(iii) Ring Rot;

(iv) Brown Rot;

(v) Potato Tuber Eelworm;

(vi) PSTVd;

[F3 (vii) Colorado Beetle;

(viii) Dickeya;

(ix) Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Liefting et al.); and

(x) Candidatus Phytoplasma solani (Quaglino et al.);]

(d) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown—

(i) is not land in respect of which a notice has been served under [F4 [F5 regulation 15(2) of] the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations] with regard to Wart Disease, Ring Rot or Potato Cyst Nematode and not withdrawn;

(ii) is not land within a zone demarcated under [F6 [F7 regulation 17(2) of] the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations] to prevent the spread of Brown Rot;

(e) blanking in any of the growing crop of the seed potatoes is not or was not excessive;

(f) the growing crop—

(i) in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, has not been rogued prior to examination; or

(ii) in the case of basic seed potatoes, any roguing has been carried out effectively and the growing crop has not been over-rogued; and

(g) all reasonable husbandry practices for the prevention of the occurrence, development or spread of diseases and pests have been effectively carried out.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/302), regs. 1, 26(2)(f)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/962), regs. 1(2), 21(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Sch. 1 paras. 3(c)(vii)-(x) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 3(c)(vii)(viii) (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seed Potatoes, Plant and Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/359), regs. 1, 4(3)(a)

F4 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d)(i) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/230), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(4)(a)(i)

F5 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d)(i) substituted (23.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/293), regs. 1, 53(3)(a)(i)

F6 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d)(ii) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/230), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(4)(a)(ii)

F7 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d)(ii) substituted (23.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/293), regs. 1, 53(3)(a)(ii)