44 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE IJan.-Marrh 
IMPORTATION RKSTKICTED 
Plants and plant products listed in article 2, decree no. 2749, October 28, 1935: 
Importation subject to quarantine restrictions, namely, import permit in advance 
of shipment, phytosanitary certificate issued by competent authority of country 
of origin, and inspection on arrival. (See pp. 4 and 5.) 
General Regul^vtions 
Promulgated by the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics, under decree no. 2749, October 28, 1935, 
MATT-JtlAL AFFECT1-:D 
Article 1. In order to safeguard the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics from the possibility of the introduction and distribution of agricul- 
tural and forest pests, plant diseases, and v^-eeds the existence of which is 
entirely unknown, or which are not widely distributed in the L'nion of Soviet 
Socialist Republics, the foreign plant quarantine is established in accordance 
with the list compiled by the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the 
articles subject thereto. 
Art. 2. The quarantine is applicable to the materials listed below imported 
from abroad into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, regardless of quantity 
and ultimate use : 
(a) Seeds of cultivated and wild plants (for collections, selected varieties 
for propagation, for technical purposes, or for consumption). 
(&) All kinds of roots, rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, fruits, and syncarps. 
(c) Live plants or parts thereof, rooted seedlings, cuttings, grapevines and 
parts thereof, scions, shoots, buds, layers, etc., and other parts of live plants. 
(d) Collections of all kinds of wild and cultivated plants, including entire 
plants or parts thereof, regardless of the method of preparation and character 
of the specimens, including pressed herbarium specimens, dried in the natural 
state, of higher and lower types of plants (phanerogams and cryptogams), and 
entomological collections of all kinds. 
(e) Agricultural raw material and products; raw cotton,^ ginned cotton, 
linters, and cotton wastes, and the fibers of other malvaceous plants {Hibiscus 
spp. etc.). 
(f) Wrapping and packing material capable of carrying infection; wraps 
that may have served to pack raw cotton, and other materials listed in articles 
13 and 16 ; also textiles, paper, excelsior, straw, hay, seaweed, moss, and other 
materials that have served as packing for seeds, planting material, live plants 
and parts thereof, named in the present list. 
if/) Soil, soil briquettes, soil samples, and soil in containers with live plants. 
Art. 3. Inspection on arrival. — The quarantine inspection and examination of 
the materials named in article 2 are effected by quarantine inspectors at points 
of entry (ports, customhouses, airports, and frontier stations) or such materials 
are sent to quarantine laboratories for more thorough examination. 
Art. 4. Import permit required for each shipment. — The importation into the 
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from abroad of shipments of the materials 
listed in article 2 is allowed only under a special quarantine permit issued in 
each case by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Quarantines, People's Com- 
missariat of Agriculture, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, upon application 
by the interested organizations. The permits are filed in advance by the estab- 
lished offices of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade, Division of 
Imports. 
Art. 5. Phytosanitary certificate required. — In connection with the purchase in 
foreign countries of material subject to quarantine restriction (under license 
issued by the P. C. ¥. T., U. S. S. R. ), importing organizations must demand from 
foreign exporters an official certificate for each shipment, issued by the quar- 
antine service or other official plant protection organization of the exporting 
country. The certificate nuist afiirn^ that the shipment concerned is free from 
quarantined pests (insects and diseases) listed by the Bureau of Foreign and 
Domestic Quarantines, of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics, in its import permit issued to the purchasing organ- 
3 For details of cotton restrictions see decree no. 2384, p. 12. 
