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SERVICE AND KEGULATOKY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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plant-quarantine officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants 
and plant products to that Union. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector, in charge, 
foreign information service. Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from the 
translations made by Ralph Shemin, plant quarantine inspector of this Bureau 
at the port of New York, of the decrees and regulations promulgated by the 
People's Commissariat of Agriculture, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, under 
the authority of decree No. 2598 of November 20, 1934, of the Council of People's 
Commissars of that Union, and reviewed by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Quarantines, People's Commissariat of Agriculture, Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used 
independently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and it is not to be 
interpreted as legally authoritative. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, UNION OF SOVIET 
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS 
Basic Legislation 
Decree no. 2596, November 20, 1984,. of the Council of People's Commissars of 
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Sovnarkom), on the Protection of the 
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against the Introduction and Distribution of 
Agricultural and Forest Pests and Noxious Weeds. 
This decree charges the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the Union 
of Soviet Socialist Republics (Narkonizem) with the organization and adminis- 
tration of the domestic and foreign plant quarantine measures of the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics which shall apply to all plant material capable of 
propagation, and to other agricultural products that are capable of conveying 
the said pests and diseases. 
The Narkonizem is authorized to determine w^hat plant material shall be 
subject to quarantine measures, and to list the pests, diseases, and noxious 
weeds against which phytosanitary measures shall be directed, and to require 
a permit in advance for their importation, to promulgate regulations under 
foreign and domestic quarantines, and to impose penalties for infractions of the 
provisions of such regulations. 
Summary 
importation prohibited 
Plants and plant products listed in article 13 of decree no. 2749, October 28, 
1935: Importation prohibited except by government institutions for scientific 
purposes. (See pp. 7 to 8.) 
Grapevine propagating material : Props and poles that have been used in 
infested vineyards ; soil and cultivating implements that have been used in 
vineyards in infested areas : Introduction into noninfested areas of Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics prohibited. (Art. 1, decree no. 345, Jan. 13, 1935; 
see p. 10.) 
Cottonseed, cotton, cotton wastes, etc., listed in article 1, decree no. 2384, June 
14, 1935: Importation prohibited except by the All-Union Institute of Plant 
Industry for scientific purposes. (See p. 12.) 
Potatoes for any purpose, live plants of Solanaceae, and parts thereof except 
seeds ; cultivating implements that have been used on fields infested with the 
pests and diseases named in article 1 of decree no. 2.30(5, May 15, 1935: Importa- 
tion prohibited except by the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry for scientific 
purposes. (See p. 14.) 
Weed seeds of quarantine Importance listed in the decree of April 7, 1935: 
Importation prohibited except for scientific purposes. (See p. 16.) 
Diseases and pests comprising groups 1 and 2 of decree no. 2598, November 20, 
1934 : Importation prohibited except under special permit for scientific purposes. 
(See p. 19 et seq.) 
