1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 89 
plant-quarantine officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants 
and plant products to that country. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector in charge, 
Foreign Information Service. Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from his 
translations of the French texts of the dahirs and decrees promulgated by the 
Director General of Agriculture, Commerce, and Colonization, and more recently 
from those of the Director of Economic Affairs of the French zone of the 
Sherifian Empire (Morocco), and reviewed by the Direction of Economic 
Affairs. 
The information included in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used 
independently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and is not to be 
interpreted as legally authoritative. The original dahirs and decrees should 
be consulted for the exact texts. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, FRENCH ZONE OF MOROCCO 
Basic Legislation 
[Dahir of September 20. 1927: Bulletin Officiel No. 803, March 13, 1928. Dahir of April 
29, 1933 ; Bulletin Officiel No. 1076, June 9, 1933] 
Summary 
importation prohibited 
Live insects and, unless preserved in liquids, their eggs, larvae, nymphs, or 
pupae, cultures of myxomycetes, fungi, or bacteria; dodder seeds (Cuscuta 
spp.j, may not be imported except for scientific or official technical purposes. 
(Dahir of September 20, 1927, articles 1 and 2.) 
Plants or parts thereof used as packing material, prohibited unless indus- 
trially processed, except those named in the vizirial decree of September 13, 
1933. 
Living plants, culms, straw, leaves, roots, husks, rachises, and inflorescences 
of Zea mays L., Sorghum vulgare Pers., including all cultivated species of 
Sorghum or Andropogon, Panicum miliaceum L., (Chaetochloa italica) Setaria 
italica (L.) Beauv., and other species of Panicum : any part or residue of 
Cannabis sativa L. except seeds, liber, and inflorescences; whole plants, living 
or dead, of Arundo donax L., except peeled or sawn stems used in making 
packings. ( Vizirial decree of August 31, 1932, as amended by vizirial decree 
of September 3, 1934, and July 12, 1935. ) 
IMPORTATION RESTRICTED 
Insects of economic importance: Certain honey-producing and Bilk-producing 
insects may be imported into the French zone subject to inspection on arrival 
if properly marked. (Decree of the Director General, March 1, 1928, as amended 
by decree of May 12, 1937.) 
Fungi, myxomycetes, and bacteria of economic or sanitary interest may be 
imported into the French zone subject to examination on arrival. (Decree of 
the Director General of March 1, 1928.) 
Forage-crop seeds of the genera Medicago, Trifolium, Lotus, and Anthyllis, 
subject to examination for dodder seeds {Cuscuta spp.). (Vizirial decree of 
May 8, 1933.) 
All plants or parts of plants, including seedlings, layers, cuttings, scions, 
bulbs, cut flowers, fruits, pits of fruits, vegetables, tubers, rhizomes, roots, 
grain, seeds, and in general, all plant wastes: manures, fertilizers, containers. 
and packing materials; lumber and bark, industrially processed plant products," 
bran, 2 straw, 2 hay 2 (see below for restrictions on hay), oil cakes; are subject to 
the provisions of the dahir of September 20, 1927. 
Potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants: Phytosanitary certificate which must 
attest their freedom from potato wart; in addition, a certificate of supervision 
is required for such products originating in countries Invaded by the Tolorado 
potato beetle, and the products must be packed in new containers which are 
2 Unrestricted entry authorized bv the decree of February 19, 1!>31, as amended. 
