1933] SEKVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 279 
Fresh fruits: Buenos Aires and Rosario. Consignments imported through 
Mendoza, Posadas, and La Quiaca will be cleared at Buenos Aires. (Decree 
of Mar. 9, 1931.) 
Apples and pears from New Zealand: Montevideo. (Decree of June 30, 1931.) 
Potatoes: Buenos Aires. (Decree of July 12, 1923.) 
Rice: Pasos de los Libres. (Decree of June 23, 1922.) 
IMPORT PERMITS REQUIRED 
Art. 2. Any person in Argentina who desires to import live plants, parts 
thereof, or seeds must apply to the Oficina de Sanidad Vegetal for a permit, 
furnishing the following information : 
(a) Name and address of importer. 
(&) Name of plant or seed. 
(c) Origin of the same, supported by the declaration of the seller and a 
certificate of competent authority. 
(d) Means by which the consignment will be imported (steamer, railroad, 
etc.). 
(e) Purpose for which imported (planting, sale, sowing, consumption). 
(f) When possible, the locality where it will be planted or sown. 
TREATMENT OF INFECTED OR SUSPECTED PLANTS 
Art. 3. All plants, or parts thereof, which proceed from countries where any 
infection injurious to the agricultural interests of Argentina exists, or into 
which the introduction of plants may not have been regulated, shall be 
considered suspicious, and as such be subjected to the treatment and disinfec- 
tion deemed necessary by the Oficina de Sanidad Vegetal. 
Art. 4. All plants, or parts thereof, found to be attacked by any readily 
communicable injurious infection shall be refused entry or destroyed by fire 
if they cannot be effectively disinfected. Destruction shall not give rise to 
indemnification. If exportation is decided upon it must be effected immediately 
by the person concerned. 
CONDITIONS OF RELEASE FOR ENTRY INSPECTION CERTIFICATE REQUIRED 
Art. 5. Plants or parts thereof which are not deemed suspicious and which 
are not attacked by injurious diseases, or which are accompanied by health 
certificates issued by competent authority of the country of origin and visaed 
by the Argentine consul nearest to the place of origin, shall be admitted after 
the usual inspection. 
The decree of May 6, 1932, as amended by that of July 7, 1933, prescribes 
that every consignment of plants or parts thereof intended for propagation or 
for consumption shall be accompanied by an inspection certificate issued by 
competent authority of the exporting country and visaed by the Argentine 
consul nearest to the port, of embarkation, in order to be admitted into Argen- 
tina, but this requirement does not exempt such consignments from the inspec- 
tion, quarantine, rejection, and other provisions of law no. 4084 and its 
regulatory decrees. 
Art. 6. For the present, plants from countries infested with phylloxera and 
San Jose scale are declared to be of suspicious origin for the purpose of article 
3. Protective measures will be prescribed for other infections if deemed 
necessary. 
Art. 7. Plants and parts thereof, which in accordance with article 3 are 
declared suspicious, are divided into the following categories for treatment: 
(a) Live plants and cuttings; (b) bulbs, tubers, and roots: (c) fruits and 
vegetables; (d) seeds. 
Art. 8. For treatment, live plants are divided into two groups: (1) Plants 
with earth; (2) plants without earth. Plants with earth will have their aerial 
parts disinfected : the subterranean parts and the soil will be treated with 
insecticides. Plants without earth, and cuttings, will be completely disin- 
fected in all their parts by immersion or by exposure for a sufficient time to 
the action of disinfectant fumes. 
Art. 9. Bulbs and turions (young scaly shoots, pips) must be deprived of 
all their dead membranes (skin) and appendages, as well as of the adhering 
soil, and be subjected to a disinfectant wash before being admitted. Tubers 
and roots will be admitted if found to be sound and free from soil, otherwise 
they shall undergo a disinfectant wash or fumigation before being admitted. 
