SCHEDULE 3SPECIFIED DISEASES OR PESTS, DAMAGE AND DEFECTS AND TOLERANCES

PART II Pre-basic seed potatoes of pre-basic 1, pre-basic 2, pre-basic 3 or pre-basic 4 class produced in Wales

Annotations:

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Specified diseases or pests, damage and defects

Individual tolerances

Group tolerances

Collective group tolerances

GROUP I

Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schlib.) Perc.)

Nil

Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchusdestructor Thorne)

Nil

Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera species infesting potatoes)

Nil

Ring Rot (Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. spp. sepedonicus (Spieck. & Kotth.) Davis et al.)

Nil

Brown Rot (Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.)

Nil

Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid

Nil

Colorado Beetle (Lepinotarsa decemlineata (Say))

Nil

GROUP II

Blight (Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary)

0.2%

F3)

F3)

Blackleg (Erwinia carotovora (Jones) Bergey et al. spp. atroseptica (Hellmers & Dowson) Dye or Erwinia chrysanthemi Burkholder et al. or both)

Nil

)

)

Soft Rots including: Watery Wound Rot (Pythium ultimum Trow)

0.2%

)

)

Pink Rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica Pethybridge) and Pit Rot

0.2%

) 0.2%

)

Dry Rot (Fusarium species)

0.2%

)

)

Gangrene (Phoma species)

0.2%

)

)

Frost damaged tubers

0.2%

)

)

GROUP III

Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M. B. Ellis)

0.2%

)

) F55.0%

GROUP IV

Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn)

1.0%

) F45.0%

)

Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-eighth of whose surface area has been affected are to be deemed to be unaffected by the disease.

 

 

 

Common Scab (Streptomyces species)

F25.0%

)

)

Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than F1one-third of whose surface area has been affected are to be deemed to be unaffected by the disease.

 

 

 

GROUP V

Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Legerh.)

1.0%

)

)

Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-eighth of whose surface area has been affected are to be deemed to be unaffected by the disease.

 

 

 

GROUP VI

External blemishes or tubers other than diseased tubers whose shape is atypical for the variety

1.0%

Superficial necrosis caused by potato virus Y

Nil

 

 

GROUP VII

Dirt or other extraneous matter

1.0%