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PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
OF THE 
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS 
BASIC LEGISLATION 
Decree No. 2598, November 20, 1934, of the Council of People's Com- 
missars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Sovnarkom), 
on the Protection of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 
against the Introduction and Distribution of Agricultural and 
Forest Pests and Noxious Weeds. 
This decree charges the People' s Commissariat of Agriculture of 
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Narkomzem) With the organization 
and administration of the domestic and foreign plant quarantine measures 
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which shall apply to all plant 
material capable of propagation, and to other agricultural products that 
are capable of conveying the said pests and diseases. 
The Narkomzem is authorized to determine what plant material shall 
be subject to quarantine measures, p.nd to list the pests, diseases, and 
noxious weeds against which phytosanitary measures shall be directed, 
and to require a permit in advance for their importation, to promulgate 
regulations under foreign and domestic quarantines, and to impose pen- 
alties for infractions of the provisions of such regulations. 
SUGARY 
Importation Prohibited 
PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS listed in article 13 of decree No. 2749, 
October 28, 1935: Importation prohibited except by government 
institutions for scientific purposes. (See pp. 7 to 8.) 
GRAPEVINE PROPAGATING MATERIAL: Props and poles that have been used 
in infested vineyards; soil and cultivating implements that have 
been used in vineyards in infested areas: Introduction into non- 
infested areas of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics prohibited. 
(Article 1, decree No. 345, Jan. 13, 1935; see p. 10). 
COTTONSEED, COTTON, COTTON WASTES, ETC., listed in article 1, decree 
No. 2384, June 14, 1935: Importation prohibited except by the All- 
Union Institute of Plant Industry for scientific purposes. (See 
p. 12.) 
