The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Made: 21st October 2010

Coming into operation-: 1st November 2010

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Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Exemptions

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Marketing of seed potatoes

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Marketing of seed potatoes for scientific purposes and selection work

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Test and trial seed potatoes

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Marketing of seed potatoes of conservation varieties

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Seed potatoes from third countries: information

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Production measures in the interests of plant health

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Composition of lots of seed potatoes and separation in the interests of varietal purity

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Certification and classification

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Community grading of basic seed potatoes

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Packages and containers

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Genetically modified seed potatoes

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Labelling of packages and containers

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Withholding or withdrawal of sealing devices or official labels

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Sealing of packages and containers

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Separate note, etc., of Schedule 7 particulars

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Retail sales

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Tolerances

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Taking of samples

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Sub-standard seed potatoes

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Records and information

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Power to exempt

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Modifications of the Act

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Revocations and consequential amendments

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SCHEDULE 1 — Certification of seed potatoes

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SCHEDULE 2 — Classification: source material for planting, requirements and tolerances for the growing crop

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SCHEDULE 3 — Particulars to be set out in a certificate

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SCHEDULE 4 — Seed potato tubers: requirements as to varietal purity and size

Requirements as to varietal purity and size

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Pre-basic TC and equivalent seed potatoes

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Pre-basic 1, Pre-basic 2, Pre-basic 3, Pre-basic 4 and equivalent seed potatoes

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Basic seed potatoes

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SCHEDULE 5

PART 1 — Requirements for an official label

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PART 2 — Marking of packages and containers for pre-basic seed potatoes or basic seed potatoes exported from Northern Ireland

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PART 3 — Information in respect of seed potatoes more than 2 kilograms in net weight produced in a country other than a member State

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SCHEDULE 6 — Tolerances for diseases, pests, damage and defects in seed potato tubers

Tolerances

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Individual tolerances

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Group tolerances

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Collective group tolerances

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Allowable surface area cover

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SCHEDULE 7 — Particulars to be specified in a sale note, etc.

Pre-basic seed potatoes

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Basic seed potatoes, test and trial seed potatoes, scientific purposes and selection work seed potatoes and conservation variety seed potatoes

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SCHEDULE 8 — Sampling Procedures

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SCHEDULE 9 — Measures to prevent spread, by means of seed potatoes, of disease or pests

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SCHEDULE 10 — Authorisation for marketing seed potatoes for test and trial purposes

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SCHEDULE 11

PART 1 — Revocations

Title	Reference	Extent
Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 188	The whole Regulations
Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007	S.R. 2007 No. 401	The whole Regulations
The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010	S.R. 2010 No. 7	The whole Regulations

PART 2 — Consequential Amendments

Title	Reference	Extent
The Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2006	S.R. 2006 No. 82	In article 2(1), in the definition of “Seed Potatoes Regulations” for “2001” there shall be substituted “2010”.
The Seed Potatoes (Tuber Inspection Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006	S.R. 2006 No. 187	In regulation 1(2), in the definitions of “official label” and “the Seed Potatoes Regulations” for “2001” there shall be substituted “2010”. In regulation 3(a)(i), for “regulation 10(2)” there shall be substituted “regulation 13(2)”. In paragraph 1 of the Schedule, for regulation 14(2) of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001” there shall be substituted “regulation 17 of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010”.
The Seed Potatoes (Crop Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009	S.R. 2009 No. 59	In regulation 1(3), for “Schedule 2 of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001” there shall be substituted “Schedule 2 to the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010”. In regulation 2, for “regulation 8(1) of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001” there shall be substituted “regulation 11(1) of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010”. In regulation 3, for “regulation 8 of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001” there shall be substituted “regulation 11 of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010”.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 21st October 2010.

Mark Browne — A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1), Article 3(4)

[^f00002]: 1965 c.22 (N.I.) as amended by S.R. & O.(N.I.) 1972 No.351 Art.3 and Schedule 3

[^f00003]: S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2)

[^f00004]: S.I. 2000/2812

[^f00005]: 1972 c.68

[^f00006]: O.J. No. L 193 20.07.2002, p.60 as amended by Commission Decision 2003/66/EC (O.J. No. L 025 30.01.2003, p.42) and Council Directive 2003/61/EC (O.J. No. L 165 18.06.2003, P.23)

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L 2, 06.01.2004, p.47

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L 362, 09.12.2004, p.21

[^f00009]: O.J. No. L 106, 30.04.1993, p.7. The grades of EEC grade 1, EEC grade 2 and EEC grade 3 stated in Commission Directive 93/17/EEC are now referred to as EC grade 1, EC grade 2 and EC grade 3 respectively; see references in Article 1 of Commission Decision of 19 December 2003 authorising, in respect of the marketing of seed potatoes in all or part of the territory of certain member States, more stringent measures against certain diseases than are provided for in Annexes I and II to Council Directive 2002/56/EC (O.J. L 2, 6.1.2004, p.47)

[^f00010]: O.J. No. L 162 21.06.2008, p.13

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L 193 20.07.2002, p.60, as amended by Commission Decision 2003/66/EC (O.J. No. L 025 30.01.2003, p.42) and Council Directive 2003/61/EC (O.J. No. L 165 18.06.2003, p.23)

[^f00012]: O.J. No. L 165 03.07.2003, p.23

[^f00013]: O.J. No. L 106, 30.04.93, p.7

[^f00014]: O.J. No. L 225, 29.09.1970, p.1

[^f00015]: O.J. No. L 106 17.04.2001, p.1 as amended by Commission Decision 2002/623/EC (O.J. No. L 200 30.07.2002, p.22), Regulation 1829/2003/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 September 2003 (O.J. No. L 268 18.10.2003, p.1) and Regulation 1830/2003/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 September 2003 (O.J. No. L 268 18.10.2003, p.24)

[^f00016]: O.J. No. L 193 20.07.2002, p.60 as amended by Commission Decision 2003/66/EC (O.J. No. L 025 30.01.2003, p.42) and Council Directive 2003/61/EC (O.J. No. L 165 18.06.2003, p.23)

[^f00017]: O.J. No. L 193, p.1

[^f00018]: O.J. No. L 165 03.07.2003, p.23

[^f00019]: S.I. 2001/3510, as amended by S.I.2009/1273, S.S.I. 2004/317, S.S.I. 2005/328 and 329

[^f00020]: O.J. No. L 193, 20.07.2002, p.1

[^f00021]: O.J. No. L 268, 18.10.2003, p.1

[^f00022]: O.J. No. L 125, 11/07/1966 pp. 2320 - 2326

[^f00023]: 1967 c. 28 (N.I.)

[^f00024]: S.R. 2006 No. 82, as amended by S.R. 2006 No. 165, S.R. 2006 No. 435, S.R. 2007 No. 333, S.R. 2007 No. 483 and S.R. 2008 No. 205, S.R. 2008 No. 442, S.R. 2008 No. 493, S.R. 2009 No. 179, S.R. 2010 No. 197, S.R. 2010 No. 232 and S.R. 2010 No. 307

[^f00025]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00026]: O.J. No. L 225, 12.10.1970, p.1 (English Special Edition Supplement Series I (66-70) p.36); as last amended by Council Directive 98/96/EC (O.J. No. L 25, 01.02.1999, p.27)

[^f00027]: S.R. 2006 No. 82

Editorial notes

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