SCHEDULE 1 U.K.Growing crop certificates

PART 4 U.K.Certified seed potatoes

11.  No growing crop certificate may be issued containing a statement that seed potatoes are capable of being marketed as certified seed potatoes unless the authorised officer is satisfied that the immediately succeeding crop produced from the seed potatoes is likely to contain— U.K.

(a) in the case of—

(i) [F1 GB] grade A, not more than 0.5%, and

(ii) [F1 GB] grade B, not more than 0.5%,

by number of growing plants which do not breed true to variety or are a different variety; and

(b) in the case of—

(i) [F1 GB] grade A, not more than 8%, and

(ii) [F1 GB] grade B, not more than 10%,

by number of growing plants which show symptoms of severe virus diseases F2 ... where those symptoms are attributable to infection in the mother crop.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. 1 para. 11 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/809), regs. 1(b), 7(15)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 21(4)(l)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 11 omitted (24.7.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/682), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(c)