Paragraph 2 General restrictions on the planting of potatoesI1

England and Wales

(1)

A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted—

(a)

any potatoes which have been grown in a third country F1to which the prohibition in Article 40(1) of the Plant Health Regulation applies; or

(b)

any potatoes produced from those potatoes.

(2)

A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted, any potatoes unless—

(a)

they derive in direct line from potato material which has been obtained under F2a programme for the certification of potatoes which has been officially approved by a competent authority or a CD authority;

(b)

they have been found to be free from Potato ring rot in official tests using the methods set out in F3EPPO PM 7/21; and

(c)

they have been found to be free from Potato brown rot in official tests using the methods set out in F4 EPPO PM 7/59.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(a)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(i)
F3: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(ii)
F4: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(iii)

Commencement

I1: Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)