Condition 54B – Potato mop-top virus: Ware potato
The information within this Import Condition was current as of the date of printing: Friday, 5 December 2025.
New entry conditions or amendments may be implemented from time to time and are uploaded into the Plant Quarantine Manual.
It is recommended that you regularly check the http://www.agriculture.vic.gov.au/pqm website for the most up to date import conditions.
The movement into Victoria of any ware potato grown for retail trade and human consumption as a fresh potato is prohibited unless it:
- originates from an area covered by an area freedom certificate, issued by an officer responsible for agriculture in the State or Territory from which the host material originated, certifying that the area from is known to be free of PMTV; or
- Ware potato sourced from a property that is not an infested property or linked property, and
- free from soil and plant material;
- be graded and inspected and found free of visual symptoms of potato powdery scab
- packaging marked or otherwise identified with the words “for human consumption and not for planting” and the name and location of the person or business that grew and/or packed the potatoes
Documentation requirement
NA
Definitions
‘ware potato’ means any potato grown for retail trade and human consumption as a fresh potato
‘infested property’ means any parcel of land which has had a positive detection of PMTV
‘potato powdery scab’ means the disease of potatoes caused by the soil-borne pathogen sponsor subterranea f.sp. subterranea.
‘linked property’ means any parcel of land which has a linkage to an infested property, including but not limited to properties:
- sharing a boundary with an infested property
- managed as a single operation across non-contiguous parcels which includes an infested property
- linked to an infested property through tracing of host material.