# The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019, Paragraph 2: General restrictions on the planting of potatoes

Extent: E+W

(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 to 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 a 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 EPPO 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 EPPO PM 7/59.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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