Iran Reach Regulation for Various Sectors

The Plant Protection Organization, which is an affiliate of the Ministry of Agriculture, will be established as of the date of this Act's ratification. The Organization must be a legally recognized body. It will be led by a director who will be a member of the board of directors designated by the Minister of Agriculture.

The Plant Protection Organization shall have a council consisting of the following:

1) Minister of Agriculture

2) Deputy-Minister of Agriculture in Technical Affairs

3) Deputy-Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs

4) Deputy-Minister of State

5) Deputy-Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education or an expert designated by the Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education or an expert designated by the Minister of Health, treatment and Medical Education

6) Head of the Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute

7) Director of the Plant Protection Organization, and

8) Director- General of the Agricultural Supporting Services Company and three pest control experts or three persons working in pest control who are designated by the Minister of Agriculture. The Minister of Agriculture and, in his absence, the Deputy- Minister of Agriculture in Technical Affairs shall preside the Council.

To prevent the introduction and dissemination of dangerous plant pests and diseases the Plant Protection Organization shall refuse to issue phytosanitary certificates for  the following materials.

1- Cotton (seeds, unginned and ginned cotton and all different parts of the plant )

2- All kinds of potatoes

3- All kinds of beet seeds

4- Rough rice

5- Seedlings, cuttings and grafts of citrus

6- Seedlings, cuttings , and grafts of all kinds of fruit trees

7- Seedlings , cuttings and fruits of olive

8- Seedlings, and cuttings of grapevine

9- Sugarcane cuttings

10-Seedlings of all kinds of needle leaf trees

11- Seedlings of banana, mango, and avocado

12- Strawberry transplants

13- Seeds of kenaf, lettuce, com, sorghum, beans, soybeans and alfalfa

14- Seeds of tobacco and tombac

15- All kinds of live insects, fungi, and harmful bacteria

16- All kinds of fruit including citrus

Note: If the institutes affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture, government institutes engaged in agriculture of private research institutes approved by the Ministry of Agriculture as qualifies wish it import particular types of seeds or seedlings into the country the must proceed with the importation in a limited quantity with the prior permission of the Plant Protection Organization and complying with the requirements set by the Plant Quarantine foe each type of seedling. Should the imported plants of seeds be found afflicted with quarantine pests and diseases during their growth they shall be destroyed immediately

Note 2: In cases deemed necessary by the Government to import one or more items mentioned under Article 9 for nutritional or industrial purposes depending on the case action shall be taken through the Plant Protection Organization for the issuance of a decree to remove the ban.

Note 3 : The Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute, agricultural colleges and agricultural research institutes needing to import useful insects and parasites or dead insects and parasites for their collections may do so having priory informed the Plant Protection Organization and observing the technical precautions.

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