Resolution No. 49/T of 2003 creating a quarantine centre in Tartoos. Country/Territory Syrian Arab Republic Document type Regulation Date 2003 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Gazette No. 32, 13 August 2003, 2 pp. Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Plant protection Hygiene/sanitary procedures Quarantine Inspection Geographical area Asia, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Western Asia Abstract This Resolution provides for the creation of a quarantine centre in the duty free zone located in Tartoos aiming at the following objectives: (a) to protect the Syrian Territory from the infiltration and entry of plant diseases and epidemics arriving with agricultural consignments; (b) to carry out sanitary and veterinary control and inspection of imported agricultural consignments; and, (c) to assure that agricultural consignments are safe and disease-free, and comply with the Syrian quarantine legislation. The quarantine centre shall be managed by a Director-General and Assistant Director-General. Full text Arabic