1937] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCE^ilENTS 
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The Minister of Agriculture is empowered by section 15, paragraph 3, of the 
law on the combat of diseases and pests of cultivated plants. December 9, 1929, 
temporarily and exceptionally to order the prohibition or inspection of plants 
and parts of plants and also to order their placing in quarantine in cases where 
their importation is permitted in accordance with these regulations and without 
inspection. 
Restrictions ox the Importation of Potatoes, Stocks of Fruit Trees, and 
Other Woody Plants From Infected Countries 
diseases and pests to be excluded 
Art. 2. To prevent the introduction of injurious plant diseases and pests, and 
especially potato wart disease {Synchytrium cndohioticuni (Schilb.) Perc), 
Colorado potato beetle {Leptinotarsa decGnilineata Say), the potato tuber worm 
{Gnoyimoachema opei'culella ZelL), and San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus 
Comst. ) on deciduous fruit trees, the importation of potatoes, and stocks of 
deciduous fruit trees and other woody plants is subject to a special super- 
vision in accordance with the provisions of articles 3, 4, 5, and 6 of these 
regulations. 
The minister can make the same procedure applicable also to other plants, 
plant diseases, and pests, through decrees, when necessary. 
PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE REQUIRED 
Art. 3. The Importation of potatoes, stocks of deciduous fruit trees, and other 
woody plants into Yugoslavia from any country in which the disease or any of 
the pests mentioned in article 2 prevails, will be permitted only when the ship- 
ment is accompanied by the certificate prescribed in article 4 of the institute 
in charge of the public phytopathological service of the exporting country. In 
this certificate it must be affirmed that the shipment is not attacked by the 
disease or by any injurious pest named in article 2, and that the shipment does 
not proceed from a locality in which the said disease or parasites prevail, nor 
from a protective zone of 10-kilometer diameter surrounding that locality. 
LIST OF INFECTED COUNTRIES TO BE PUBLISHED 
The Ministry of Agriculture shall regularly, in January of each year, pub- 
lish in the official gazette (Sluzbene Novine), on the basis of data furnished 
by the agricultural experiment and control stations, a list of the countries 
in which a disease or a pest named in article 2, or any new injurious 
pest or disease prevails. Furthermore, there will be published in the course 
of the year the fact that the disease or a pest named in article 2 invades 
another country or when any nev,- disease or pest appears. In both cases, the 
frontier customs offices will be advised. 
LIST OF COUNTRIES INFECTED OR INFESTED BY THE POTATO W^ART, COLORADO POTATO 
BEETLE, POTATO TUBER WORM, AND SAN JOSE SCALE 
[Order of the Minister of Agriculture, No. 4665/11. Jan. 28, 1937 ; Sluzbene Xovine No. 
24, Feb. 3. 1937] 
In accordance with technical reports of agricultural and supervisory sta- 
tions, the following countries, for the year 1937, are to be regarded as in- 
fested or infected by potato wart (Si/nchytriinn eudohioticum) , Colorado potato 
beetle {Leptinotarsa deccmUneata) , the potato tuber worm {Gnorimoschema 
opercuJeUa), and San Jose scale {Aspidiotus peniiciosus) . 
1. The potato wart prevails in Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the Free 
State of Danzig, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, 
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. 
2. The Colorado beetle occurs in Belgium. Canada, England, France, Ger- 
many. Luxemburg, and the United States of America. 
3. Tlio potato tuber worm occurs in Algeria, America (continent of), Aus- 
tralia. Azores, Belgian Congo. Canary Islands, Cyprus, France, Greece. India 
(British), Italy (Sicily), Java, Madeira, Malta, Mauritius, Morocco, New 
Zealand, Portugal, Rhodesia. Spain, Sumatra, Tasmania, Tunisia, Union of 
South Africa, and the West Indies. 
