{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98/annex-IV/division-6/division-d/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98/annex-IV/division-6/division-d/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/98",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU of 15 October 2014 implementing Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards specific requirements for the genus and species of fruit plants referred to in Annex I thereto, specific requirements to be met by suppliers and detailed rules concerning official inspections",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98",
  "path": "annex/IV/division/6/division/d/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or area",
  "text": "(i) Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman\npropagating material and fruit plants of the certified category shall be produced in areas known to be free from Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman; or\nno 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;\nXanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King\npropagating material and fruit plants of the certified category shall be produced in areas known to be free from Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King; or\nsymptoms 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.\n(ii) Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman\nthere 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\nthe cropping and soil borne disease history of the production site shall be recorded;\nXanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King\nthere 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;\n(iii) Requirements for RNQPs, other than Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King and Phytophthora fragariae C.J. Hickman and other than viruses:\nthe 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:\n0,1 % in the case of Phytonemus pallidus Banks;\n0,5 % in the case of:\nAphelenchoides besseyi Christie;\nStrawberry multiplier disease phytoplasma;\n1 % in the case of:\nAphelenchoides fragariae (Ritzema Bos) Christie;\nCandidatus Phlomobacter fragariae Zreik, Bové & Garnier;\nCandidatus Phytoplasma asteris Lee et al .;\nCandidatus Phytoplasma australiense Davis et al. ;\nCandidatus Phytoplasma fragariae Valiunas, Staniulis & Davis;\nCandidatus Phytoplasma pruni ;\nCandidatus Phytoplasma solani Quaglino et al. ;\nChaetosiphon fragaefolii Cockerell;\nClover phyllody phytoplasma;\nDitylenchus dipsaci (Kuehn) Filipjev;\nMeloidogyne hapla Chitwood Chitwood;\nPodosphaera aphanis (Wallroth) Braun & Takamatsu;\nPratylenchus vulnus Allen & Jensen;\nRhizoctonia fragariae Hussain & W.E.McKeen;\n2 % in the case of:\nVerticillium albo-atrum Reinke & Berthold;\nVerticillium dahliae Kleb; and that propagating material and those fruit plants, and any surrounding host plants have been rogued out and destroyed; and\nIn 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.\n(iv) Requirements for all viruses\nSymptoms 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.",
  "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/2014/98/annex/IV/division/6/division/d/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:40.967038+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."
}