90 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
then officially sealed. (Yizirial decree of August 1, 1936, amended by Vizirial 
decree of January 23, 1937.) 
Hay: Importation subject to the phytosanitary regulations and those relat- 
ing to the control of parasites and importation permitted only in the form of 
mechanicaUy compressed bales bound with iron wire. (Vizirial decree of Sep- 
temper 13, 1933, article 4.) 
Authorized ports of entry for plant products: Casablanca, Port-Lyautey 
(Kenitra), and Oujda. (Article 6 of dahir of September 20, 1927, and decree 
of September 10, 1936.) 
IMPORTATION UNRESTRICTED 
Cereals: Wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, rice, soybean, and millet; beans, 
peas, lentils, vetches, garbanzos, coffee, spices, and dried herbs : gums and resins ; 
dried medicinal plants in packages ; lumber and bark ; industrially dried vege- 
tables, flours, food pastes, brans, oil cakes, straw, and hay. (Decree of the 
Director General, February 19, 1931, amended by decrees of November 23, 1931, 
and May 5, 1937.) 
Dried herbarium specimens: Importation not restricted. (Dahir of September 
20, 1927, art. 12.) 
PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS OF THE FRENCH ZONE, SHERIFIAN EMPIRE 
(MOROCCO) 
[Promulgated by the dahir of September 20, 1927; Bulletin Officiel No. 803, March 13, 
1928] 
General Regulations 
definition of plant parasite 
Article 1. The term "plant parasite" designates any animal or plant organ- 
ism, at any stage of development, that can effect lesions or other injury to wild 
plants of economic importance, to cultivated plants, to plant products belonging 
to those categories, or is of such a character as to cause their death or 
modification. 
importation and transit of insects, fungi, bacteria, and dodder prohibited 
The entry into or -transit through the French zone is prohibited of live insects, 
the eggs, larvae, nymphs, or pupae of such insects, when not preserved in 
liquids ; cultures of myxomycetes, fungi, or bacteria ; and dodder seeds ( Cuscuta 
spp.). 
ENTRY PERMITTED FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES 
Art. 2. When the articles named in article 1 are intended for scientific pur- 
poses or for official technical purposes, they may be admitted to entry if so 
packed as to prevent their dispersal. 
Art. 3. A decree of the Director General of Agriculture, Commerce, and 
Colonization (now Director of Economic Affairs) will determine what species of 
insects, myxomycetes, fungi, or bacteria may be admitted to entry or transit 
for economic or sanitary interests and the conditions under which they will be 
admitted. 
Art. 4. The Director General and the Director of Public Health and Hygiene 
may likewise grant temporary derogations from the provisions of article 1. 
ENTRY AND TRANSIT CONTROLLED 
Art. 5. The entry into, transit through, and movement within the French 
zone, and the exportation beyond that zone, of the following-named products or 
articles, are regulated by the provisions of the present dahir : 
1. All plants, or parts of plants such as seedlings, layers, cuttings, scions, 
grafts, cut flowers, fruits, pits of fruits, vegetables, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, 
grain, and seeds, and in general all plant waste. 
2. Manures, vegetable fertilizers, composts, soil, even when the latter forms a 
portion of a package of live plants. 
3. Cases, baskets, sacks, wrappers, packing, used props and supports, and any 
other article or material that has been used for the transportation or handling 
