{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-21/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-21/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/21",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive 2014/21/EU of 6 February 2014 determining minimum conditions and Union grades for pre-basic seed potatoes (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-21",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Minimum conditions for lots of pre-basic seed potatoes",
  "text": "Member States shall provide that lots of pre-basic seed potatoes shall satisfy the following minimum conditions:\n(a) presence of earth and extraneous matter shall not exceed 1,0 % by mass;\n(b) the number of potatoes affected by rots, other than ring rot or brown rot, shall not be present in a quantity exceeding 0,2 % by mass;\n(c) the number of potatoes with external blemishes, including misshapen or damaged tubers, shall not exceed 3,0 % by mass;\n(d) the number of potatoes affected by common scab over more than one third of their surface shall not exceed 5,0 % by mass;\n(e) shrivelled tubers due to excessive dehydration or dehydration caused by silver scurf shall not exceed 0,5 % by mass;\n(f) lots of pre-basic seed potatoes shall comply with the following requirements concerning the presence of RNQPs, or diseases caused by the respective RNQPs as set out in the table:\nRNQPs or symptoms caused by RNQPs\nThreshold for the presence of RNQPs on the lots of pre-basic seed potato\nCandidatus Liberibacter solanacearum Liefting et al . [LIBEPS]\n0 %\nDitylenchus destructor Thorne [DITYDE]\n0 %\nBlack scurf affecting tubers over more than 10 % of their surface as caused by Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk [RHIZSO]\n1,0 %\nPowdery scab affecting tubers over more than 10 % of their surface as caused by Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh. [SPONSU]\n1,0 %\n(g) the total number of potatoes, as referred to in points (b) to (f), shall not exceed 6,0 % by mass.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/177 of 11 February 2020 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC, Commission Directives 93/49/EEC and 93/61/EEC and Implementing Directives 2014/21/EU and 2014/98/EU as regards pests of plants on seeds and other plant reproductive material (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/21/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:49.743215+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}