The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

Amendment of Schedule 1 (classification: certification conditions)

3.  In Schedule 1 (classification: certification conditions) in paragraph 3, for sub-paragraph (i) substitute—

“(i) in any case where potato cyst nematode has been found on the land on which the seed potatoes are growing—

(i) the land is no longer demarcated as infected with potato cyst nematode under Schedule 15 to the Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005(1);

(ii) six years have elapsed since the last positive finding; and

(iii) the land on which the seed potatoes are grown or were grown is land which has not been used for growing potatoes at any time during the period, in the case of a crop for which an application for inspection as Pre-basic, class generation 1, 2, 3 or 4 seed potatoes has been made, of seven years, and in the case of all other crops, of five years, immediately preceding the planting of the crop;”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2005/613.