24 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
RESTRICTIONS ON THE IMPORTATION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODX'CTS 
[Ministerial decree of March 3, 1927 (Gazetta Ufficiale No. 73, March 29. 1927), as 
amended by that of July 18, 1928 (Gaz. TJff. No. 191, August 17, 1928)] 
AUTHORIZED PORTS OF ENTRY 
Article 1. The importation of living plants, parts or* plants, seeds, and other 
plant products, from foreign countries, intended for breeding and propagation, 
may be effected through the following customs ports of entry : Briinjisi, Cagliari, 
Catania, Fiume, Genoa, Livorno, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Syracuse, 
Taranto, Trieste, Turin, Udine, Venice, Ventimiglia, and Verona. 
The entry of forage-crop and grass seeds is authorized also through the port 
of Ancona and the entry of vegetable seeds also through the port of Messina. 
Art. 2. Packages containing the said plants must be refused entry when pre- 
sented at other customs offices. However, such packages may be reshipped to 
the nearest customs office among those above named, when the interested person 
requests the customs authorities to do so and offers to pay the cost of 
reshipment. 
If the railroad station of destination is situated between the frontier station 
and the place where one of the offices named in article 1 is located, or if it is 
situated on a railroad diverging from the normal itinerary which the shipment 
should follow to reach the customs office authorized for importation, the frontier 
customs office at which the shipment was presented is authorized, at the request 
of the interested person, to hold the shipment, fully informing the competent 
regional pathological laboratory. The latter will carry out the prescribed 
inspection in the manner and place deemed most convenient, at the expense of 
the interested person. 
INSPECTION REQUIRED 
Art. 3. Shipments of the plant material referred to in article 1 are admitted 
for importation after inspection by a phytopathologist designated by the Minis- 
try of National Economy at the authorized customs office, in accordance with 
the provisions of articles 8 and 9 of law No. 987 of June 18, 1931. 
Art. 4. When a shipment is admitted for importation, the precautionary 
measures prescribed by article 9 of law No. 987 of June 18, 1931, and article 23 
of the regulations under that law are to be applied by the designated phyto- 
pathologist at the expense of the interested person. 
Arts, 5 and 6. Revoked by the decree of July 18, 1928. 
FORAGE-PLANT SEEDS MUST BE FREE FROM DODDER 
Art. 7. Seeds of forage-crop plants are admitted for importation when the 
absence of any species of Cuscuta has been ascertained. That is accomplished 
by the phytopathological inspector, or by an authorized seed control laboratory 
from samples withdrawn by that inspector. 
IMPORTATION AND TRANSIT PROHIBITED 
Art. 8. The importation and transit of the following plants and parts thereof 
are suspended : 
(a) European and American grapevine (Vitis spp.) stocks and cuttings from 
Canada, France, Spain, and the United States, on account of the black rot, 
Guignardia bidwellii (Ell.) Viala aiid Ravaz, the regulations against phylloxera 
remaining effective. (International Phylloxera Convention of Berne.) 
(&) Chestnut trees (Castmiea spp.), including the fruits, seeds, bark, branches 
and trunks with bark, from North America, South America, China, and the 
Orient in general, as well as from any country which has not taken precautionary 
measures against the chestnut bark disease, Endothia parasitica (Murr.) Ander. 
and Ander. 
(c) Fruit-bearing plants, parts thereof, and fresh fruits of all kinds from 
Argentina. Australia, Brazil, Canada. Chile, China, Hawaii, India, Japan, Mexico, 
Union of South Africa, and the United States, on account of the San Jose 
scale, Aspidiotus pemiciosus Comst. ; the oriental fruit moth (Laspeyresia), 
Grapholitha molesta Busck ; foreign f ruitflies ; and the fungus Diaporthe 
pern iciosa Ma rch a 1 . 
