The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Amendment of the Seed Potatoes Regulations 1991

2.  –

(1) The Seed Potatoes Regulations 1991((1)) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 6(2)(d) of Part III of Schedule 1, (classification of certified seed potatoes) in column 1 of the Table (diseases) the words “(including tobacco veinal necrosis virus infection)” shall be deleted.

(3) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (classification of basic seed potatoes), in column 3 (tolerances)–

(a) opposite the entry relating to Class Elite 1 (E1), for paragraphs (ii) and (iii) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

“(ii) total virus disease (leafroll, severe mosaic and mild mosaic)–0.5% of which not more than 0.1% (in total) shall be of leafroll and severe mosaic.”;

(b) opposite the entry relating to Class AA for paragraphs (i) to (iv) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:–

“(i) deviations from variety and type and groundkeepers–0.1%;

(ii) total virus disease (leafroll, severe mosaic and mild mosaic)–1.0%, of which not more than 0.25% (in total) shall be of leafroll and severe mosaic;

(iii) blackleg–1%”.

(1)

S.I. 1991/2206; amended by S.I. 1992/1031.