Uruguay
Seed potatoes (updated 8 December 2020)
Potato cyst nematode (PCN)
A consignment test for potato cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida) is required before export.
Growing crop tolerances
Class tolerances apply.
Tuber tolerances
Inspectors instructions UR/2007/01 apply. Minimum tolerances for seed export apply, except for:
- Gangrene (Phoma foveata): NIL
- Pink rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica): NIL
- Skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans): NIL
- Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea): (2% of incidence) please inspect to NIL tolerance - Please note that the authorities take a 50kg sample from each 150 tonnes (from each lot number). The inspectors calculate the incidence by assessing the number of powdery scab affected tubers in the total number of tubers in the sample. One pustule is countable - it is recommended to inspect to NIL tolerance.
- Spraing (caused by PMTV): NIL
- Common scab (Streptomyces scabies), Black scurf (Rhizoctonia solani), Silver scurf (Helminthosporium solani), as follows (max. tolerance by weight):
Surface Area Common scab Black scurf Silver scurf All three combined > 10% 1.5% 1.5% 3% 5% 5 - 10% 5% 5% 10% 10% < 5% 10% 10% 20% 20%
Other requirements
Import permit: required.
Documentation: The AFIDI number from the import permit has to be quoted on the Phytosanitary Certificate.
Additional declarations to be inserted on the reverse of the Phytosanitary Certificate for Seed Potatoes
1. Tubers were produced under an official phytosanitary certification procedure which includes Potato mop-top virus, utilising appropriate indicators or equivalent methods, finding them free from this pest.
The shipment is free of Potato mop-top virus, according to the result of the official test in the SASA laboratory
2. The seed potato crop was produced in an area in which Thrips palmi is not present.
3. The seed potato crop was produced in an area where Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. sepedonicus is not present.
4. In addition, the seed potato crop was officially inspected during the complete growing season and found free from Phoma foveata, Phytophthora erythroseptica, Polyscytalum pustulans and S ynchytrium endobioticum.
5. The seed potato crop was officially inspected during the complete growing season and found free from: Ditylenchus destructor, Ditylenchus dipsaci, Globodera pallida, Globodera rostochiensis, Meloidogyne chitwoodii and Pratylenchus coffeae.
6. The consignment is free from Leptinotarsa decemlineata.
7. In the official inspections, the lot complied with the Uruguayan Norm for the Production of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Propagation Materials, Ministerial Resolution No. 3041 dated July 14, 2006 and the modification No. 864 dated November 1, 2010.