302 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct-Dec. 
Such derogations may be granted only for plants whose introduction is 
believed to present a real economic and technical interest, and may be imported 
through diplomatic channels alone, and when accompanied by a phytosanitary 
certificate attesting the freedom of the plants from disease. 
Aet. 6. The same provisions are applicable to fresh cacao pods and seeds. 
FRENCH COLONIES CONCERNED 
Art. 7. The provisions of the present order are applicable to plants, pods, 
and seeds of Theohroma cacao offered for importation into and transit through 
Equatorial Africa, Guadeloupe, Guiana, Madagascar, Martinique, New Cale- 
donia, New Hebrides, Oceania (Settlements of), Reunion, and West Africa. 
COUNTRIES AFFECTED 
The prohibitions of article 1 are applicable to the designated products pro- 
ceeding from South America, Central America, and Trinidad. 
Restrictions on the Importation or Coffee 
[Order of February 27, 1922, as amended] 
IMPORTATION PROHIBITED ON ACCOUNT OF THE COFFEE BERRY BORES 
Article 1. Importation into, movement and storage in, and transit through 
French colonies that are free from the coffee berry borer {Stephanoderes hampei 
Hagedorn) are prohibited of any products capable of distributing that insect, 
and such products proceeding either from countries in which the presence of 
that pest has been demonstrated or from those into which the importation of 
those products is not prohibited or subjected to a phytosanitary control. 
products affected 
This prohibition applies to coffee plants and parts thereof, to dry or fresh 
coffee berries, to coffee beans in parchment, hulled coffee beans (fresh or un- 
roasted), soil and composts, and to sacks, cases, and packing that have served 
to transport the aforesaid products, as well as to all plants or parts thereof 
and seeds capable of harboring the coffee berry borer, especially Hibiscus and 
Rubus. 
IMPORTATION UNDER CERTIFICATION 
Art. 2. The movements indicated in article 1 of the said products proceeding 
from sources other than those indicated in that article may be authorized only 
on the presentation of a certificate, issued by the competent authority of the 
country of origin, attesting that the said products had not been gathered in a 
region where the presence of Stcphofwderes had been determined, nor in a 
country into which the importation of the said products is not prohibited or 
subjected to phytosanitary control. The certificate must be visaed by the con- 
sular or other authorized official of the French Republic. 
IMPORTATION INTO NONPRODUCING COLONIES 
Art. 2 contd. In colonies that do not produce coffee, a derogation ot the 
presentation of the certificate required by paragraph 1 of this article may be 
granted by Ministerial decision for coffees proceeding direct from warehouses 
of the metropolis (European France) or from countries declared contaminated, 
on condition that they are intended for consumption only. 
In all other colonies, that derogation may be granted only when it is shown 
on entry into their territory that a technical inspection of imported plant 
products has been established and completed by the necessary equipment for 
quarantine and disinfection. 
DISPOSAL OF IRREGULAR SHIPMENTS 
Art. 8. Such products, offered for importation into the French colonies named 
in article 5, as do not meet the provisions of articles 1 and 2 will be reladen 
immediately or seized and destroyed by fire at the expense of the holder. 
