Section I VERIFICATION

With reference to Article 5(2), the official investigation referred to in Article 4(1) shall establish that at the time of verification one of the following criteria are met:

• no history of potato cyst nematodes in the field during the last 12 years, based on the results of appropriate officially approved testing,

or

• a known cropping history in which no potatoes or other hosts plants listed in point 1 of Annex I have been grown in the field in the past 12 years.