LegalizeThe Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2006
Made: 21th April 2006
Laid before Parliament: 25th April 2006
Coming into force: 16th May 2006
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Title, commencement, extent and application
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Interpretation
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Seed potatoes to which these Regulations do not apply
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Marketing of seed potatoes
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Marketing in the protected region
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Size of seed potatoes
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Marketing of seed potatoes for scientific purposes or selection work
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Marketing of seed potatoes for test and trial purposes
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Certification of seed potatoes
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Composition of lots of seed potatoes
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Packages and containers for seed potatoes
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Labelling of packages and containers of seed potatoes
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Sealing of packages and containers
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Identification of genetically modified seed potatoes
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Seed potatoes from outside the European Community: information
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Separate particulars
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Retail sales of seed potatoes
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Sampling of seed potatoes
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Keeping of records
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Enforcement – powers of examination and production
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Enforcement – power to withdraw official labels, official documents and growing crop certificates
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Service of notices
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Modification of provisions of the Act
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Revocations
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SCHEDULE 1 — GROWING CROP CERTIFICATES
PART I — General
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PART II — Pre-basic seed potatoes
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PART III — Basic seed potatoes
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PART IV — Certified seed potatoes
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SCHEDULE 2 — OFFICIAL LABEL AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENT
PART I — Official Label
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PART II — Official document
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SCHEDULE 3 — SPECIFIED DISEASES OR PESTS, DAMAGE AND DEFECTS AND TOLERANCES
PART I — Pre-basic seed potatoes of pre-basic TC class produced in England
| Column 1Specified diseases or pests, damage and defects | Column 2Individual tolerances |
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| GROUP I | |
| Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum(Schlib.) Perc.) | Nil |
| Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructorThorne) | 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) | Nil |
| Blackleg (Erwinia carotovora(Jones) Bergey et al.spp) atroseptica(Hellmers & Dowson) Dye or Erwinia chrysanthemiBurkholder et al. or both | Nil |
| Soft Rots including: Watery Wound Rot (Pythium ultimum Trow) | Nil |
| Pink Rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica Pethybridge) and Pit Rot | Nil |
| Dry Rot (Fusarium species) | Nil |
| Gangrene (Phoma species) | Nil |
| Frost damaged tubers | Nil |
| GROUP III | |
| Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M. B. Ellis | Nil |
| GROUP IV | |
| Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solaniKuhn) | Nil |
| Common Scab (Streptomyces species) | Nil |
| GROUP V | |
| Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Legerh.) | Nil |
| GROUP VI | |
| External blemishes or tubers other than diseased tubers whose shape is atypical for the variety | 3.0% |
| GROUP VII | |
| Dirt or other extraneous matter | 1.0% |
PART II — Pre-basic seed potatoes of pre-basic 1, pre-basic 2, pre-basic 3 or pre-basic 4 class produced in England
| Column 1Specified diseases or pests, damage and defects | Column 2Individual tolerances | Column 3Group tolerances | Column 4Collective group tolerances |
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| GROUP I | |||
| Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schlib.) Perc.) | Nil | - | - |
| Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructor 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% | ) | ) |
| 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 (Phomaspecies) | 0.2% | ) | ) |
| Frost damaged tubers | 0.2% | ) | ) |
| GROUP III | |||
| Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield)) M. B. Ellis | 0.2% | ) | ) 5.0% |
| GROUP IV | |||
| Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solaniKuhn) | 1.0% | ) 5.0% | ) |
| 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 shall be deemed to be unaffected by the disease. | |||
| Common Scab (Streptomyces species) | 5.0% | ) | ) |
| Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-third of whose surface area has been affected shall 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 shall 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% | - | - |
PART III — Basic seed potatoes and certified seed potatoes produced in England
| Column 1Specified diseases or pests, damage and defects | Column 2Individual tolerances | Column 3Group tolerances | Column 4Collective group tolerances |
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| GROUP I | |||
| Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum(Schlib.) Perc.) | Nil | - | - |
| Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructorThorne) | 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) | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Blackleg (Erwinia carotovora(Jones) Bergey et al.spp) atroseptica(Hellmers & Dowson) Dye or Erwinia chrysanthemiBurkholder et al. or both | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Soft Rots including Watery Wound Rot (Pythium ultimum Trow) | 1.0% | ) 1.0% | ) |
| Pink Rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica Pethybridge) and Pit Rot | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Dry Rot (Fusarium species) | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Gangrene (Phoma species) | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Frost damaged tubers | 1.0% | ) | ) |
| Provided that in respect of seed potatoes of a Community Grade the individual tolerances listed in column 2 and the group tolerances listed in column 3 shall not exceed 0.5%. | |||
| GROUP III | |||
| Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M. B. Ellis) | 0.5% except for A and CC classes; 2.0% for A and CC classes only | ) | ) |
| Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Legerh.) | 3.0% | ) 5.0% | ) 5.0% |
| 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 shall be deemed to be unaffected by the disease (except where powdery scab takes its cankerous form). | |||
| GROUP IV | |||
| Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solaniKuhn) | 3.0% | ) | ) |
| Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-quarter of whose surface area has been affected in respect of class A and class CC and one-eighth unaffected in respect of all other classes shall be deemed to be unaffected by the disease. | |||
| Common Scab (Streptomyces species) | 5.0% | ) | ) |
| Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-third of whose surface area has been affected shall be deemed to be unaffected by the disease. | |||
| GROUP V | |||
| External blemishes or tubers other than diseased tubers whose shape is atypical for the variety | 2.0% | 2.0% | ) |
| Superficial necrosis caused by strains of potato virus Y | 0.1% | ||
| GROUP VI | |||
| Dirt or other extraneous matter | 1.0% | - | - |
PART IV — Test and trial seed potatoes
| Column 1Specified diseases or pests, damage and defects | Column 2Individual tolerances | Column 3Collective tolerances |
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| Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructor Thorne) | Nil | - |
| Potato Cyst Nematode (Globoderaspecies 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 | - |
| Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schlib.) Perc.) | 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 | - |
| Earth or other extraneous matter | 2.0% | - |
| Dry and wet rot, except if caused by Synchytrium endobioticum, Clavibacter michiganensis(Smith) Davis et al. ssp. Sepedonicus(Spieck. & Kotth.) Davis et al.) or Ralstonia solanacearum(Smith) Yabuuchi et al) | 1.0% | ) |
| External blemishes or tubers other than diseased tubers whose shape is atypical for the variety | 3.0% | ) 6.0% |
| Common scab: tubers affected over more than one-third of their surface | 5.0% | ) |
SCHEDULE 4 — CLASSIFICATION OF SEED POTATOES
PART I — Seed potatoes capable of being marketed as pre-basic seed potatoes
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PART II — Seed potatoes capable of being marketed as basic seed potatoes
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PART III — Seed potatoes capable of being marketed as certified seed potatoes
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SCHEDULE 5 — AUTHORISATION FOR MARKETING SEED POTATOES FOR TEST AND TRIAL PURPOSES
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