Division Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or areaF1

• Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman

• propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category shall be produced in areas known to be free from Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman; or

• no symptoms of Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman are observed on the foliage of propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category in the production site over the last complete growing season, and any infected propagating material and fruit plants and plants in a surrounding zone of at least 5 m radius have been marked, excluded from lifting and marketing, and destroyed after uninfected plants have been lifted;

  • Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King

• propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category shall be produced in areas known to be free from Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King; or

• symptoms of Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King have been observed on no more than 2 % of propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category in the production site over the last complete growing season, and that propagating material and those fruit plants, and any symptomatic plants in the immediate vicinity have been rogued out and immediately destroyed.

• Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman

• there shall be a rest period, during which the propagating material and fruit plants concerned shall not be grown, which shall be of at least ten years between findings of Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman and the next planting; or

• the cropping and soil borne disease history of the production site shall be recorded;

  • Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King

• there shall be a rest period, during which the propagating material and fruit plants concerned shall not be grown, which shall be of at least one year between findings of Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King and the next planting;

Requirements for RNQPs, other than Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King and Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman and other than viruses:

• the percentage of propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category in the production site over the last complete growing season, showing symptoms of each of the following RNQPs shall not exceed:

  • 0,1 % in the case of Phytonemus pallidus Banks;

  • 0,5 % in the case of:

    • Aphelenchoides besseyi Christie;

    • Strawberry multiplier disease phytoplasma;

  • 1 % in the case of:

    • Aphelenchoides fragariae (Ritzema Bos) Christie;

    • Candidatus Phlomobacter fragariae Zreik, Bové & Garnier;

    • Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris Lee et al .;

    • Candidatus Phytoplasma australiense Davis et al. ;

    • Candidatus Phytoplasma fragariae Valiunas, Staniulis & Davis;

    • Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni ;

    • Candidatus Phytoplasma solani Quaglino et al. ;

    • Chaetosiphon fragaefolii Cockerell;

    • Clover phyllody phytoplasma;

    • Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kuehn) Filipjev;

    • Meloidogyne hapla Chitwood Chitwood;

    • Podosphaera aphanis (Wallroth) Braun & Takamatsu;

    • Pratylenchus vulnus Allen & Jensen;

    • Rhizoctonia fragariae Hussain & W.E.McKeen;

  • 2 % in the case of:

    • Verticillium albo-atrum Reinke & Berthold;

    • Verticillium dahliae Kleb; and that propagating material and those fruit plants, and any surrounding host plants have been rogued out and destroyed; and

• In the case of a positive test result for propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category showing symptoms of Arabis mosaic virus, Raspberry ringspot virus, Strawberry crinkle virus, Strawberry latent ringspot virus, Strawberry mild yellow edge virus, Strawberry vein banding virus, and Tomato black ring virus, the propagating material and fruit plants concerned shall be rogued out and immediately destroyed.

Requirements for all viruses

Symptoms of all viruses listed in Annexes I and II have been observed on no more than 2 % of propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category in the production site over the last complete growing season, and that propagating material and those fruit plants and any symptomatic plants in the immediate vicinity have been rogued out and immediately destroyed.