MOROCCO
WARE POTATOES
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Last updated: 04 January 2007
Requirements applicable to: UK
Phytosanitary requirements
Wart disease
Wart disease ( Synchytrium endobioticum) must not be known to have occurred in the field in which the crop was grown.
PCN
The field in which the potatoes were grown must have been tested for the presence of Potato cyst nematodes ( Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida).
Tuber tolerances
Minimum tolerances for ware export apply.
Other requirements
Certificates: the name of the importer should be given on the Phytosanitary Certificate. The statement "to order" is not allowed.
Procedures upon arrival
All consignments will be inspected upon arrival in Morocco.
Points of entry: Ports of: Agadir, Al-Hoceima, Casablanca, El-Jadida, Kenitra, Laayoune, Larache, Nador, Tanger; Frontier posts of: Beni Anzar (Nador), Finideq (Tanger), Jouj Baghal (Oujda); Airports of: Agadir, Casablanca, Cujda, Fes, Marrakech, Rabat-Sale, Tanger, Tetouan.
Additional declarations to be inserted on the reverse of the Phytosanitary Certificate for Ware Potatoes
1. Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) is not known to have occurred on the land in which the potatoes were grown.
2. Samples of soil from the land in which the potatoes were grown, were drawn and tested prior to planting by the Department and revealed no trace of viable cysts of Potato cyst nematodes (Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida).
3. Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), Potato ring rot (Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. sepedonicus), Potato brown rot ( Ralstonia solanacearum), Potato smut (Angiosorus solani) and Potato spindle tuber viroid are not known to exist in Scotland.
4. Potato tuber nematode (Ditylenchus destructor), Root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and Tomato canker (Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. michiganensis) have not been recorded in commercial stocks of potatoes in Scotland.
5. The consignment has been sieved, cleared and parked either at the port, frontier post or airport of dispatch under the supervision of an officer of the Plant Health Service in the country of origin or in a packing station mentioned and approved by the Plant Health Service and in this event has undergone a random inspection by a Plant Health Officer in the same service.
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