Memorandum on cooperation in the sphere of quarantine and plant protection between the State Plant Quarantine Service of the Russian Federation and the Chief Plant Quarantine Office of France

МЕМОРАНДУМ о сотрудничестве в области карантинов и защиты растений между Государственной Службой Карантинна Растений Mинистерства сельского хозяйства и продовольствия Российской Федерации и Главным Управлением Защиты Растений Министерства Сельского хозяйства и Рыболовства Французской Республики

The terms and conditions of the present Memorandum shall be applicable planting materials given as gifts, used for scientific exchange and destined for diplomatic representatives. The Contracting Parties have agreed to undertake the necessary arrangements for the prevention of the introduction and propagation of pests and diseases with commodities subject to quarantine inspection (art. 1). The Parties shall timely inform each other of the appearance and the propagation on their own territories of new pests and diseases and of the arrangements for combating them (art. 3). The Parties shall annually exchange by 1 April information on pests and diseases related to the previous year, legislative acts and regulations on quarantine and plant protection within two months from the date of publication thereof and the publications issued by phytosanitary services of both countries (art. 5).