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CL 84/5
PLANT PROTECTION AGREEMENT FOR THE ASIA AND
PACIFIC REGION
The Contracting Governments, desiring to prevent, through concerted action, the introduction into and spread within the Asia and Pacific Region of destructive plant diseases and pests, have concluded the following Agreement, which is a supplementary agreement under Article III of the International Plant Protection Convention of 1951:
APPENDIX A
ARTICLE I
Definitions
In this Agreement and in the appendices hereto, the following terms shall have the meaning hereby assigned to them, save as otherwise provided:
(a)
"The Asia and Pacific Region, hereinafter called 'The Region' comprises all territories in Asia, east of the western border of Pakistan and /and south of the Himalayas, the southern border of China and west of the eastern coast of Viet Nam,/ of the western border of China and south of the northern border of China and west of the eastern border of China, together with all those territories in the Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean situated wholly or partly in the area bounded by longitude 100° East, latitude 45° South, longitude 130° West, latitude 38 North to the point of its intersection with the eastern coast of China. /western coast of the Republic of Korea, and from that point a straight line to Taipei, and thence a straight line to the point of intersection of the eastern coast of Viet Nam and latitude 15° North. For the purpose of implementing the objectives of this Agreement Hong Kong shall also be considered as being in the Region.7"
(b) "plant" or "plants" means all species of plants or parts thereof, whether
living or dead (including stems, branches, tubers, bulbs, corms, stocks, budwood, cuttings, layers, slips, suckers, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and any other parts of plants);
(c) "territory" means a State or Territory within the Region defined in (a)
above;
(d)
(e)
"the Organization" means the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
"the Commission" means the Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission established in pursuance of Article II of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE II
Regional Commission
The Contracting Governments hereby establish a regional Commission, to be known
as the Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission, whose functions shall include:
(a)
the determination of procedures and arrangements necessary for the implementation of this Agreement and the making of recommendations to the Contracting Governments accordingly;