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INTERNATIONAL PLANT PROTECTION CONVENTION
Objectives
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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
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(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
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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)
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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
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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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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
Cables: FOODAGRI, ROME
Telex: 610181 FAO 1
625852 FAO 1/625853 FAO 1
Telephone: 57971
Fax: 57973152
5782610/57975155
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