Objectives
==========

     To maintain and increase international cooperation in controlling
pests and diseases of plants and plant products, and in preventing
their introduction and spread across national boundaries.

Summary of provisions
=====================
     (a) Parties undertake to adopt the legislative, technical and
administrative measures specified in the Convention (art. 1);

     (b) Specific and regional agreements to be made in conjunction
with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
(art. 2);

     (c) Each Party to set up an official plant protection organization
to:

            (i)  Inspect areas under cultivation and consignments of
                 plants in international traffic for existence or
                 outbreak of plant pests or diseases;

           (ii)  Issue certificates relating to the phytosanitary
                 condition and origin of plants and plant products;

          (iii)  Carry out research in the field of plant protection
                 (art. 4);

     (d) Parties to regulate very strictly the import and export of
plants and plant products, by means, where necessary, of prohibitions,
inspections and destruction of consignments (art. 6).

Membership
==========

     Open to any State interested in the purposes of the Convention,
whether or not a member or associate member of FAO.

Method of participation

     Open for signature until May 1952.  Signatures subject to the
deposit of instruments of ratification with the Director-General of
FAO, without time-limit.  After ratification by three signatory
Governments it entered into force, and then remained open for adherence
by non-signatory Governments, without time-limit, by depositing an
instrument of adherence with the Director-General.

                                                    Amendments

     Date of adoption               6.12.1951       November 1979
     Place of adoption              Rome, Italy     Rome, Italy
     Date of entry into force       3.4.1952        4.4.1991
     Languages                      English, French,
                                                                                              Spanish
     Depositary                     FAO              FAO

     Participant                      Ratification/Accession (Ac)/
     -----------                      Succession (S)  
                                      =============================

     Algeria                           1.10.1985 (Ac)
     Argentina                        23. 9.1954 (Ac)
     Australia*                       27. 8.1952
     Austria                          22.10.1952
     Bahrain                          29. 3.1971 (Ac)
     Bangladesh                        1. 9.1978 (Ac)
     Barbados                          6.12.1976 (Ac)
     Belgium                          22. 7.1952
     Belize                           14. 5.1987 (Ac)
     Bolivia                          27.10.1960 (Ac)
     Brazil                           14. 9.1961
     Cambodia                         10. 6.1952 (Ac)
     Canada                           10. 7.1953
     Cape Verde                       19. 3.1980 (Ac)
     Chile                             3. 4.1952
     Colombia                         26. 1.1970
     Costa Rica                       23. 7.1973
     Cuba                             12. 4.1976
     Czechoslovakia                    5. 8.1983 (Ac)
     Denmark                          13. 2.1953
     Dominican Republic               20. 6.1952 (Ac)
     Ecuador                           9. 5.1956
     Egypt                            22. 7.1953
     El Salvador                      12. 2.1953
     Ethiopia                         20. 6.1977 (Ac)
     Finland                          22. 6.1960 (Ac)
     France                           20. 8.1957
     Germany                           3. 5.1957
     Ghana                            22. 2.1991 (Ac)
     Greece                            9.12.1954 (Ac)
     Grenada                          27.11.1985 (Ac)
     Guatemala                        25. 5.1955
     Guinea                           22. 5.1991 (Ac)
     Guyana                           31. 8.1970 (Ac)
     Haiti                             6.11.1970 (Ac)
     Hungary                          17. 5.1960 (Ac)
     India                             9. 6.1952
     Indonesia                        21. 6.1977
     Iran, Islamic Republic of        18. 9.1972
     Iraq                              1. 7.1954 (Ac)
     Ireland                          31. 3.1955
     Israel                            3. 9.1956
     Italy                             3. 8.1955
     Jamaica                          24.11.1969 (Ac)
     Japan                            11. 8.1952
     Jordan                           24. 4.1970 (Ac)
     Kenya                             7. 5.1974 (Ac)
     Korea, Republic of                8.12.1953 (Ac)
     Lao People's Democratic Republic 28. 2.1955 (Ac)
     Lebanon                          18. 9.1970 (Ac)
     Liberia                           2. 7.1986 (Ac)
     Libyan Arab Jamahiriya            9. 7.1970 (Ac)
     Luxembourg                       13. 1.1955
     Malawi                           21. 5.1974 (Ac)
     Malaysia                         17. 5.1991 (Ac)
     Mali                             31. 8.1987 (Ac)
     Malta                            13. 5.1975 (Ac)
     Mauritius                        11. 6.1971 (Ac)
     Mexico                           26. 5.1976 (Ac)
     Morocco                          12.10.1972 (Ac)
     Netherlands                      29.10.1954
     New Zealand**                    16. 9.1952
     Nicaragua                         2. 8.1956 (Ac)
     Niger                             4. 6.1985 (Ac)
     Norway                           23. 4.1956 (Ac)
     Oman                             23. 1.1989 (Ac)
     Pakistan                         10.11.1954 (Ac)
     Panama                           14. 2.1968 (Ac)
     Papua New Guinea                  1. 6.1976 (Ac)
     Paraguay                          5. 4.1968 (Ac)
     Peru                              1. 7.1975 (Ac)
     Philippines                       3.12.1953
     Portugal                         20.10.1955
     Romania                          17.11.1971 (Ac)
     Russian Federation               24. 4.1956 (Ac)
     Senegal                           3. 3.1975 (Ac)
     Sierra Leone                     23. 6.1981 (Ac)
     Solomon Islands                  18.10.1978 (Ac)
     South Africa                     21. 9.1956
     Spain                            18. 2.1952
     Sri Lanka                        12. 2.1958
     Saint Kitts and Nevis            17. 4.1990 (Ac)
     Sudan                            16. 7.1971 (Ac)
     Suriname                         28.11.1954 (S)
     Sweden                           30. 5.1952
     Thailand                         16. 8.1978
     Togo                              2. 4.1986 (Ac)
     Trinidad and Tobago              30. 6.1970 (Ac)
     Tunisia                          22. 7.1971 (Ac)
     Turkey                           29. 7.1988 (Ac)
     United Kingdom of Great
       Britain and Northern
       Ireland***                      7. 9.1953
     United States of  
       America****                    18. 8.1972
     Uruguay                          15. 7.1970
     Venezuela                        12. 5.1966 (Ac)
     Yemen                            20.12.1990 (Ac)
     Yugoslavia                       11. 2.1955
     Zambia                           24. 6.1986 (Ac)

        *    Extended to Nauru and Norfolk Island on 9.8.1954.    
  

       **    Applied to Cook Islands and Niue.

      ***    Extended to the Isle of Man and Jersey on 1.10.1953, and
to the Bailiwick of Guernsey on 9.3.1966.

     ****    Extended upon ratification to all territories for the
international relations of which the United States of America is
responsible.

     At its twentieth session, in November 1979, the FAO Conference
approved a revised text of the Convention.  In accordance with
article XIII.4 of the revised text, the Convention shall enter into
force as from the thirtieth day after acceptance by two thirds of the
contracting parties.

     The following States have so far deposited notifications of
acceptance of the revised text of the Convention:

     Participant                               Dates of receipt of
                                               notification of
                                               acceptance          
     ------------                               ------------------

     Algeria                                     1.10.1985
     Argentina                                  14.11.1983
     Australia                                  22. 5.1981
     Bangladesh                                 11. 1.1984
     Barbados                                    4. 4.1991
     Belgium                                     6. 5.1983
     Belize                                     14. 5.1987
     Brazil                                     28. 8.1985
     Bulgaria                                    8.11.1991
     Canada                                     17. 9.1980
     Cape Verde                                 19. 3.1980
     Chile                                       8.10.1980
     Colombia                                   18. 9.1980
     Costa Rica                                 22. 9.1986
     Czechoslovakia                              9.10.1987
     Denmark                                    19. 9.1980
     Ecuador                                    22. 7.1988
     El Salvador                                20. 9.1982
     Equatorial Guinea                          27. 8.1991
     Ethiopia                                   26. 5.1980
     Finland                                    31. 5.1982
     France                                     29.10.1980
     Germany                                    27.11.1985
     Ghana                                      22. 2.1991
     Grenada                                    27.11.1985
     Guatemala                                  21. 8.1980
     Guyana                                     21. 7.1982
     Haiti                                       3.12.1990
     Hungary                                     1. 4.1981
     Indonesia                                  14.11.1990
     Ireland                                    27. 1.1981
     Israel                                     26. 7.1982
     Korea, Republic of                          4.11.1980
     Lebanon                                    24.10.1990
     Liberia                                     2. 7.1986
     Luxembourg                                  7. 2.1983
     Malaysia                                   17. 5.1991
     Mali                                       31. 8.1987
     Malta                                      16.11.1990
     Mauritius                                  10. 9.1990
     Mexico                                     11.11.1981
     Morocco                                    24.11.1980
     Netherlands                                 2.11.1981
     New Zealand                                10. 4.1990
     Nicaragua                                  28.11.1990
     Niger                                      17.12.1990
     Norway                                      7. 4.1981
     Papua New Guinea                           13.11.1991
     Peru                                       21.12.1990
     Portugal                                   23. 4.1992
     Russian Federation                          9.12.1982
     Senegal                                    27. 3.1984
     Sierra Leone                               23. 6.1981
     Solomon Islands                            15.12.1989
     South Africa                               10. 3.1981
     Spain                                      30. 6.1981
     Saint Kitts and Nevis                      17. 4.1990
     Sudan                                       5. 3.1991
     Suriname                                   19. 8.1980
     Sweden                                     19.11.1980
     Togo                                        2. 4.1986
     Trinidad and Tobago                         4. 3.1991
     Tunisia                                    29. 8.1990
     Turkey                                     29. 7.1988
     United Kingdom of  
      Great Britain and  
      Northern Ireland                          15. 7.1982
     United States of America                   11. 6.1982
     Uruguay                                     1.10.1981
     Yugoslavia                                 13. 6.1983
     Zambia                                      1. 2.1991

Convention Secretariat
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