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        CONVENTION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN AND
             MEDITERRANEAN PLANT PROTECTION ORGANIZATION
                            (as amended)

Objectives
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     To prevent the introduction and spread of pests and diseases of
plants and plant products.

Summary of provisions
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     (a) A European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
established (art. 1);

     (b) The Organization to act, with FAO, as a regional plant
protection organization under article 8 of the International Plant
Protection Convention, 1951;

     (c) The Organization to advise, assist and coordinate Government
measures to prevent the introduction and spread of plant pests and
diseases (art. 5), and to obtain, exchange, study and publish
information relating to the same;

     (d) Schedule II contains a list of pests and diseases to be given
special attention.

Membership
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     Restricted to those countries listed in schedule III of the
Convention, and any other country the Council of the Organization may
invite to become a member.

                                               Amendments

     Date of adoption         18. 4.1951        9.5.1962
     Place of adoption                         Paris, France13.5.1964
     Date of entry into force  1.11.1953       10.3.1966
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              18.9.1968
     Languages                English, French
     Depositary               France

     Participant                     Entry into force    Withdrawals
     ------------                    ----------------    -----------

     Algeria                           4. 8.1962
     Austria                           1.11.1953
     Belgium                           1.11.1953
     Bulgaria                         16. 4.1959
     Cyprus                            6.11.1961
     Czechoslovakia                   29. 4.1960
     Denmark                           1.11.1953
     Finland                           1. 6.1960
     France                            1.11.1953
     Germany                          26. 7.1954
     Greece                            9. 3.1956
     Hungary                           5. 5.1960
     Iran, Islamic Republic of         6. 5.1976            19. 2.1982
     Ireland                           1.11.1953
     Israel                            1.11.1953
     Italy                             1.11.1953
     Luxembourg                        1.11.1953
     Morocco                          26.11.1972
     Netherlands                       1.11.1953
     Norway                            1. 4.1956
     Poland                            5. 9.1958
     Portugal                          3.11.1953
     Romania                           5. 4.1959
     Russian Federation               17. 7.1957
     Spain                             1.11.1953
     Sweden                            1.11.1953
     Switzerland                       1.11.1953
     Turkey                            9. 9.1965
     United Kingdom of  
       Great Britain and  
       Northern Ireland*               1.11.1953
     Yugoslavia                        1.11.1953

     *   Applied to Guernsey and Jersey.

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