International:


International Plant Protection Convention

Objectives:

To maintain and increase international cooperation in controlling pests and diseases of plants and plant products, and in preventing their introduction and spread across national boundaries.

Summary of Provisions:

• Parties undertake to adopt the legislative, technical and administrative measures specified in the Convention.
  
• Specific and Regional agreements to be made in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
  
• Each Party to set up an official plant protection organization to:
  • Inspect areas under cultivation and consignments of plants in international traffic for existence or outbreak of plant pests or diseases.
    
  • Issue certificates relating to the phytosanitary condition and origin of plants and plant products.
    
  • Carry out research in the field of plant protection.
• Parties to regulate very strictly the import and export of plant and plant products, by means, where necessary, of prohibitions, inspections and destruction of consignments.

Date of Adoption:
6.12.1951 (Rome)

Date of entry into force:
3.4.1952

Arab Participants:
Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Yemen