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United Nations - Treaty Series
1955

grounds of locusts in order to prevent the annual migration of locusts across the frontier from the territory of one Contracting Party to that of the other.

Article 5

The two Contracting Parties shall inform one another of the appearance in their territories of the dangerous pests and diseases affecting agricultural plants, referred to in articles 3 and 4, and shall indicate the districts affected. The list of these pests and diseases may in the future be modified by agreement between the Parties.

Article 6

Both Contracting Parties agree that consignments of goods of vegetable origin, as for example: seeds, sets, bulbs, tubers, cuttings, stems, graftings and the like, and also all consignments of goods for food, fodder and industrial use, such as grain, beans, fruit, cotton fibre and others, shall, on being exported from one country into the other, be covered by a certificate issued by plants Quarantine Service of the exporting country stating that the consignments concerned are free from the pests and diseases mentioned in article 3 of the Convention.

Article 7

Both Contracting Parties shall issue to the competent authorities in their territories regulations whereby the import from any third State of vegetable products such as seeds, bulbs, tubers, cuttings, sets, roots and the like will be effected solely under a permit of the Quarantine Service. Quarantine measures and the areas in which such vegetable products may be used shall also be defined by agreement with the plant Quarantine Service.

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Both Contracting Parties undertake to establish as appropriate in their territories specific frontier points through which consignments of goods of vegetable origin may be imported from, or exported to, third countries; to check such consignments carefully for infection by plant pests and diseases for this purpose subject to quarantine and, for this purpose, to equip the said frontier points with disinfection chambers for the disinfection of consignments of imported goods of vegetable origin and with the necessary means for carrying out analyses in respect of plant pests and diseases.

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