APPENDIX li. 



• International Phytopathological Convention of Rome. 



Article 1.— The contracting States agree to take the necessary legislative 

 and administrative measures to ensure common and efficacious action against 

 the introduction and extension of enemies of plants. 



These measures should especially have regard to: (1) the efficacious 

 supervision of nurseries, gardens, green-houses, and other establishments 

 engaged in trade in living plants (plants, cuttings, grafts, flDwering bulbs, and 

 cut flowers) ; (2) the recording of the appearance of diseases of plants and 

 of injurious animals with the localities infected ; (3) the means of checking 

 and preventing the diseases of plants ; (4) tlie regulation of the transport 

 and packing of the plants and parts of plai\ts mentioned above ; (5) the 

 measures to be taken in case of a breach of the regulations. 



Article 2. — There shall be created in each State adhering to the present 

 Convention a government service of Phytopathology intended to secure the 

 execution of these measures. 



The government service of Phytopathology will comprise as a minimum : 

 (1) the creation of one or more establishments for study and for scientific 

 and technical research ; (2) the organisation of efTective supervision of the 

 arowing plants ; (3) the inspection of consigiunents ; (4) the issue of 

 phytopathological certificates. 



Article 3. — The measures indicated in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 cf Article 2 

 shall be already in force at the moment of ratification of or of adherence 

 to the present Convention. 



All other measures indicated in Articles 1 and 2 shall be taken in 

 each State within a period of two years from the date of ratification of or of 

 adherence to the present Convention. 



Article 4. — The present Convention shall not apply to the vine, to grains 

 and seeds, to edible tubers, bulbs, rhizomes and roots, to fruit and vegetables, 

 to roots and produce of field cultivation. 



