SCHEDULE 2 E+W

PART 2 E+W General provisions relating to the planting of certain solanaceous species

General restrictions on the planting of potatoes E+W

2.—(1) A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted—

(a) any potatoes which have been grown in a third country [F1 to which the prohibition in Article 40(1) of the Plant Health Regulation applies], or

(b) any potatoes produced from those potatoes.

(2) A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted, any potatoes unless—

(a) they derive in direct line from potato material which has been obtained under [F2 a programme for the certification of potatoes which has been officially approved by a competent authority or a CD authority],

(b) they have been found to be free from Potato ring rot in official tests using the methods set out in [F3 EPPO PM 7/21], and

(c) they have been found to be free from Potato brown rot in official tests using the methods set out in [F4 EPPO PM 7/59].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 16(2)(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 16(2)(b)(i)

F3 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 16(2)(b)(ii)

F4 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 16(2)(b)(iii)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 27.3.2020, see reg. 1