to DISSEMINATION OF PARASITIC FUNGt 



The same will be tlie case with enemies of plants whose ordinary supports 

 do not exist in the importing countries. 



B. — In specifying the enemies of plants w^hich are to figure on the lists, 

 the choice will be limited to those presenting — 



(1) An epidemic character. 



(2) A destructive or at least very harmful action on cultivated plants. 



(3) An easy propagation by living plants or parts of living plants. 



Article 11. — The creation of the government service of Phytopathology 

 shall be notified by each contracting State to the International Institute of 

 Agriculture, Rome. 



Article 12. — The contracting States recognise, from the time of signing the 

 ))resent Convention, the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, to be 

 the official international centre for all questions relating to the enemies of 

 plants. 



The Institute shall collect statistical data as well as administrative, 

 scientific, and practical information concerning all diseases and enemies of 

 plants, through the medium of documents which shall be communicated to 

 it as soon as possible by the government services of Phytopathology and 

 the establishments for Phytopathological Research placed under the authority 

 and control of the several Governments. 



Article 13. — The International Institute of Agriculture shall publish, at 

 least once a month, the administrative, scientific, and practical information 

 transmitted to it. 



Article 14. — Any proposal from a contracting State tending to modify or 

 amplify the present Convention shall be communicated by that State to the 

 Institute and referred by the latter to a meeting (>f special Delegates of 

 the contracting parties which shall be called together on the occasion of a 

 General Assembly of the Institute. 



The proposals studied by these special Delegates will then be submitted 

 by the General Assembly for the approval of the States which have adhered 

 to the present Convention. 



Article 15.— In case of disagreement between two or more contracting 

 States as to the interpretation of the clauses of this Convention, and in case 

 of practical difficulties in its application, the parties concerred undertake 

 to submit their difierences to the examination of a special joint Commission 

 appointed from their Phytopathological services so that measures calculated 

 to settle these diflterences may be proposed. 



