The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Amendment of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

18.  For Schedule 6, Table II substitute the following—

“Table II

PRE-BASIC TO PRE-BASIC 4 CLASS AND EQUIVALENT (NORTHERN IRELAND AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UK)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Disease, pests, damage and defects	Individual Tolerances	Group Tolerances	Collective group tolerances	Allowable % surface area cover
GROUP 1
Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum Schilb.)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructer Thorne)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera species infesting potatoes)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Ring Rot (Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spieck & Kotth) Davis et al.)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Brown Rot (Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Potato Tuber Moth (Phthorimaea operculella (Zell)	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
Colorado Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say))	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL
GROUP II
Blight (phytophthora infestans (Mont) de Bary	0.2%	0.2%	4.0%	NIL
Blackleg (Erwinia carotovora (Jones) Bergey et al. ssp atroseptica (Hellmers & Dowson) Dye) or Erwinia chrysanthemi Burkholder et al. or both	0.05%	0.2%	4.0%	NIL
Gangrene/Dry Rot/Wet Rot	0.1%	0.2%	4.0%	NIL
Frost damaged tubers	0.1%	0.2%	4.0%	NIL
GROUP III
Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M. B. Ellis)	0.2%	3.0%	4.0%	NIL
Black scurf (Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn)	1.0%	3.0%	4.0%	12.5%
Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea (Wallr) Lagerh)	1.0%	3.0%	4.0%	12.5%
Common scab (Streptomyces species)	3.0%	3.0%	4.0%	25.0%
GROUP IV
Blemishes such as damaged or misshapen tubers	1.0%	NIL	4.0%	NIL
GROUP V
Dirt or other extraneous matter	NIL	1.0%	NIL	NIL

Note: The collective group tolerance in Column 4 applies to Groups II, III, and IV in Column 1.”