# The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 3

Extent: N.I.

A growing crop report shall only be issued if an authorised officer is satisfied that—
(a) the seed potatoes are of a variety of potato species listed in the NI Variety List or, before the end of the period of two years beginning with the day after the day on which exit day falls, the Common Catalogue;
(b) the seed potatoes in any one crop are of a single variety;
(c) the seed potatoes are taken from a crop which is free from the following diseases or pests—
(i) Wart Disease;
(ii) Potato Cyst Nematode;
(iii) Ring Rot;
(iv) Brown Rot;
(v) Potato Tuber Eelworm;
(vi) PSTVd;
(vii) Colorado Beetle;
(viii) Dickeya;
(ix) Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Liefting et al.); and
(x) Candidatus Phytoplasma solani (Quaglino et al.);
(d) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown—
(i) is not land in respect of which a notice has been served under regulation 15(2) of the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations with regard to Wart Disease, Ring Rot or Potato Cyst Nematode and not withdrawn;
(ii) is not land within a zone demarcated under regulation 17(2) of the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations to prevent the spread of Brown Rot;
(e) blanking in any of the growing crop of the seed potatoes is not or was not excessive;
(f) the growing crop—
(i) in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, has not been rogued prior to examination; or
(ii) in the case of basic seed potatoes, any roguing has been carried out effectively and the growing crop has not been over-rogued; and
(g) all reasonable husbandry practices for the prevention of the occurrence, development or spread of diseases and pests have been effectively carried out.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/190/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-3
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