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plants of economic importance, to cultivated plants, to plant products belonging 
to those categories, or is of such a character as to cause their death or 
modification. 
IMPOKTATIOX AND TRANSIT OF INSECTS, FUNGI, BACTERIA, AND DODUEIl PROHIBITED 
The entry into or transit through the French zone is prohibited of live insects, 
the eggs, larvae, nymphs, or pupae of such insects, when not preserved in 
liquids; cultures of myxomycetes, fungi, or bacteria ; and dodder seeds (Ciiscuta 
spp.). 
ENTRY PERMITTED FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES 
Art. 2. When the articles named in article 1 are intended for scientific pur- 
poses or for official technical purposes, they may be admitted to entry if so 
packed as to prevent their dispersal. 
Art. 3. A decree of the Director General of Agriculture, Commerce, and Coloni- 
zation will determine what species of insects, myxomycetes, fungi, or bacteria 
may be admitted to entry or transit for economic or sanitary interests and the 
conditions under which they will be admitted. 
Art. 4. The Director General and the Director of Pul)lic Health and Hygiene 
may likewise grant temporary derogations from the provisions of article 1. 
entry AND TRANSIT CONTROLLED 
Art. 5. The entry into, transit through, and movement within the French zone, 
and the exportation beyond that zone, pf the following-named products or 
articles, are regulated by the provisions of the present dahir : 
1. All plants, or parts of plants such as seedlings, layers, cuttings, scions, 
grafts, cut flowers, fruits, pits of fruits, vegetables, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, 
roots, grain, and seeds, and in general all plant waste. 
2. Manures, vegetable fertilizers, composts, soil, even when the latter forms a 
portion of a package of live plants. 
3. Cases, baskets, sacks, wrappers, packing, used props and supports, and any 
other article or material that has been used for the transportation or handling 
of the products or articles above mentioned, the utilization of which might 
involve pest risk to crops. 
4. Logs, cork, bark, tan, posts, poles, railroad ties, and cordwood. 
5. All products of plant origin, such as fruits and vegetables industrially 
dried, flours, food pastes, bran, oil cakes, straw, and hay. 
G. Plants in pots or balls of earth : potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants. 'Decree 
of the Director General, Mar. 27, 1931; Bulletin Offlciel No. 962, Apr. 8, 1931.) 
(The decree of May 25, 1928, prescribes that the products named in pars. 4 and 
'^ of the preceding article, with the exception of dried fruits, shall not fall 
under the provisions of arts. 6. 7. and 9 of the present dahir.) 
AUTHORIZED PORTS OF ENTRY 
Art. 6. The ports of entry for the importation or transit of the products named 
in article 5 are designated in orders of the Director General. 
The decree of ?.Iarch 31, 1933. designates the ports of Casablanca and Port 
Lyautey and the frontier post of Oujda. (See p. 9.) 
The decree of the Director General of April 1, 1933, authorizes also the entry 
of potatoes through the ports of Rabat, Mazagan, Safi. and Magador, when 
shipments weighing not less than 20 metric quintals of 100 kilograms are 
concerned. 
INSPECTION ON ARRIVAL 
Art. 7. The products named in article 5 will be inspected by officials of the 
Direction General of agriculture on their entry into thf> French zone and dealt 
with in accordance with the findings : Release for entry, treatment, relading. or 
destruction. Inspectors are authorized to withdraw samples from shipments 
for detailed examination. 
This insi)ection may be extended to other products if the inspector has reason 
to suspect that they carry plant parasites. Products intended for propagation 
may be placed under observation for variable periods. The Director General 
may determine, if occasion requires, the products that, by derogation, shall 
not be subject to the provisions of this article. 
