Article 4 Inspections by competent authoritiesF9

Samples for official examination in respect of Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Davis et al., hereinafter ‘the specified organism’, shall be taken from each lot in a consignment. Each sample shall consist of at least 200 tubers. Where a lot exceeds 25 tonnes, a sample shall be taken for each 25 tonnes and, in addition, for the remaining part of the lot.

The responsible official bodies shall carry out a visual examination of the samples for symptoms of the specified organism on cut tubers. During that examination, all lots of the consignment concerned shall remain under official control and shall not be moved or used.

Where symptoms of the specified organism are detected during the examination referred to in paragraph 2, tests, determining whether the specified organism is present, shall be carried out in accordance with F1EPPO PM 7/59.

F2While those tests are carried out, all lots of the consignment concerned, and all other consignments which contain a lot originating in the same pest-free area and which are under the control of the responsible official body concerned, must remain under official control, and must not be moved or used.

While those tests are carried out, all lots of the consignment concerned, and all other consignments which contain a lot originating in the same pest free area and are under the control of the responsible official body concerned, shall remain under official control, and shall not be moved or used.

Where the presence of the specified organism is confirmed in a sample in accordance with paragraph 3, there shall be retention and appropriate conservation of any remaining potato extract and the lot concerned shall not be introduced into F3Great Britain.

All remaining lots referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 3 shall be tested in accordance with F4EPPO PM 7/59.

As regards lots for which no symptoms of the specified organism are detected in the samples during the examination referred to in paragraph 2, tests for latent infection shall be carried out on all of the lots in accordance with F5EPPO PM 7/59.

During that testing that lot shall remain under official control and shall not be moved or used.

Where the presence of the specified organism is confirmed in a sample as referred to in the first subparagraph, there shall be retention and appropriate conservation of any remaining potato extract and the lot concerned shall not be introduced into F6Great Britain.

In this Article F8and in Article 5, “EPPO PM 7/59” (“EPPO PM 7/59”) means the standard describing a diagnostic protocol for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization.