This Law regulates agricultural quarantine measures on the territory of Georgia and the principles of their implementation, and applies to state and local governments as well as legal and physical persons. The main objectives of phytosanitary quarantine are: (a) prevention of the entry and spread of diseases and pests from other countries; (b) timely discovery of diseases and pests, their eradication, and supervision of the measures to do so; and (c) establishment of state control over the implementation of quarantine rules in production, transportation, storage, processing and sale of agricultural goods. The main objectives of veterinary quarantine are: (a) prevention of the entry and spread of human and animal diseases from other countries; (b) timely discovery of human and animal diseases, localization of the centres of infection and their eradication; and (c) establishment of state veterinary control over the utilization of quarantine rules for animals, birds, fish and other living organisms, the production, storage, processing, transportation and sale of commodities and inputs of animal origin, and other products and materials subject to veterinary control. The following materials are subject to phytosanitary quarantine: (a) seeds and sowing materials of agricultural, forestry and decorative crops, plants and their parts, food and commodities of plant origin that can become carriers of quarantined organisms; (b) fungi and their cultures, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, mites and insects; (c) collections of insects, disease sources and samples, as well as collections of herbs and seeds; (d) conveyances entering the country from abroad; (e) agricultural equipment, bottling and packaging materials, industrial products, plant crafts that can facilitate spread of quarantine organisms, as well as rocks and soil samples; and (f) land and facilities used for producing, processing, storing and selling commodities of plant origin, agricultural and forestry crops, household plots, and non-agricultural land.