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Part 3 Basic seed potatoes and certified seed potatoes produced in WalesF1

Column 1Column 2Column 3Column 4
Specified diseases or pests, damage and defectsIndividual tolerancesGroup tolerancesCollective group tolerances
Group I
Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schlib) Perc)Nil--
Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructor Thorne)Nil--
Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera species infesting potatoes)Nil--
Ring Rot (Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al spp sepedonicus (Spieck & Kotth) Davis et al)Nil--
Brown Rot (Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al)Nil--
Potato Spindle Tuber ViroidNil--
Colorado Beetle (Lepinotarsa decemlineata (Say))Nil--
Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum Liefting et alNil--
Candidatus Phytoplasma solani Quaglino et alNil--
Group II
Blight (Phytophthora infestans (Mont) de Bary)0.5%))
Blackleg (Dickeya Samson et al. spp. or Pectobacterium Waldee emend. Hauben et al. spp. or both)0.5%))
Soft Rots including Watery Wound Rot (Pythium ultimum Trow)0.5%))
Pink Rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica Pethybridge) and Pit Rot0.5%) 0.5%)
Dry Rot (Fusarium species)0.5%))
Gangrene (Phoma species)0.5%))
Frost damaged tubers0.5%))
Any of these Group II defects that present as a wet rot symptom0.2%))6.0% for basic seed potatoes and 8.0% for certified seed potatoes
Group III
Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M B Ellis)0.5% except F2GB grade E, GB grade A and GB grade B grades; 2.0% for GB grade E, GB grade A and GB grade B grades only))
Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea (Wallr) Legerh)3.0%) 5.0%)
Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-tenth of whose surface area has been affected are deemed to be unaffected by the disease (except where powdery scab takes its cankerous form)
Group IV
Black scurf as caused by Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-tenth of whose surface area has been affected are deemed to be unaffected by the disease5.0%))
Common Scab (Streptomyces species) Provided that seed potatoes which have at least two eyes at the rose end that are wholly unaffected and less than one-third of whose surface area has been affected are deemed to be unaffected by the disease5.0%))
Group V
External blemishes including damaged tubers or tubers other than diseased tubers whose shape is atypical for the variety3.0%))
Shrivelled tubers due to excessive dehydration or dehydration caused by silver scurf (Helminthosporium solani)1.0%) 3.0%)
Superficial necrosis caused by strains of potato virus Y0.1%))
Group VI
Dirt or other extraneous matter1.0%--

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 3 Pts. 2, 3 substituted (29.8.2020) by The Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/833), regs. 1, 5(4)(c)

F2

Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed Potatoes (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/738), regs. 1(2), 2(14)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1573, regs. 1(2)(b), 2(3)(l)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)