The Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

16.  Where a place of production is designated by an inspector to be contaminated for the purposes of Article 5(1)(a)(ii) of Directive 98/57/EC, the notice referred to in paragraph 8 may require that upon receipt of the notice and throughout the subsequent growing years up to and including the first potato or tomato cropping season permitted by paragraph 10(b) or 11(b)—

(a) all machinery and storage facilities at the place of production which are used for potato or tomato production shall be cleansed and, where appropriate, disinfected in accordance with paragraph 6(b); and

(b) such controls on irrigation and spraying programmes, which may include a prohibition on such programmes, shall be introduced as the inspector considers appropriate for the prevention of the spread of R. solanacearum.