1934] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Concise Summary 
importation restricted 
Plants or parts of plants, including scions, cuttings, cut flowers, leaves, fruits, 
vegetables, bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, and seeds. Each shipment offered for entry 
must be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate issued in the country of 
origin. 
IMPORTATION UNRESTRICTED 
Plants and parts of plants intended exclusively for food and for industrial 
and medicinal purposes, but when their use is in doubt they shall be deemed 
restricted products. 
Order of the French High Commission, No. 248, of April 19, 1926 
general regulations 
Movements of plant material restricted 
Article 1. Subject to the provisions of the present order are : 
(a) Importation into the States under French mandate; 
( & ) Commerce between these same States ; 
(c) Exportation from these States; 
(d) Transit through the territories under French mandate. 
Restricted plant material 
(1) Plants or parts of plants, including scions, cuttings, bulbs, tubers, 
Thizomes, seeds, cut flowers, leaves, fruits, and vegetables ; 
(2) Material of any kind used for the packing and transport of the products 
mentioned in the preceding paragraph. 
Unrestricted plant material 
Art. 2. Plants and parts of plants intended exclusively for food, manufactur- 
ing, and medicinal purposes are not subject to the present regulations. 
However, in case of doubt as to the real purpose of the plants and parts of 
plants, or if, although intended for food, or for manufacturing or medicinal 
purposes,, their introduction into or distribution through the country constitutes 
a danger to agriculture, the present regulations will be applied to them by 
decision of the High Commissioner upon the request of the heads of the States 
concerned and upon the advice of the president of the Consultative Epiphyte 
Commission. 
Art. 3. The High Commissioner may prohibit the importation and transit of 
these products by special orders issued upon the proposal of the Secretary 
General of the High Commissariat on the advice of the president of the Con- 
sultative Epiphyte Commission. 
Art. 4. Commerce in the products mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 of 
article 1 shall be the object of provisions made by each State. 
Customs ports of entry 
Art. 5. Subject to the provisions mentioned in the following article, the right 
to import into the territories under mandate the products mentioned in para- 
graphs 1 and 2 of article 1 is limited to customs offices on maritime and land 
frontiers which will provide the technical personnel and material necessary to 
insure the control of importation and, when required, the disinfection of the 
imported products. 
An agreement between the inspection-general of customs of Syria and 
Lebanon and the State concerned will regulate the conditions under which the 
products to be disinfected will be transported from the point of importation 
to the State disinfecting station and their delivery to the importers after 
disinfection. 
Art. 6. Requests for the opening of customs offices for the entry of the prod- 
ucts mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 1 shall be addressed by the heads 
