E2/Central America 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 Agricultural Research Administration 
 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
 Washington, D ? C. 
 
 B.E.P.Q. kk5, Supplement No. 6 October 2k, 1950 
 
 PLANT QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
 OF CENTRAL AMERICA 
 
 THE REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA 
 
 AMENDMENTS TO PLANT QUARANTINE REGULATIONS • 
 
 According to information supplied "by the American Embassy, 
 San Jose, Costa Rica, concerning amendments to the regulations 
 governing the importation of plants, seeds, etc., into Costa 
 Rica the following action has been taken.: - 
 
 Presidential Decree No. Ik of November 8, 1929, on which 
 the summary for Costa Rica on pages 5 and 6 of B.E.P.Q. kk5 
 was based, was amended by Decree No. 7°1 of La Junta 
 Fundadora of the Second Republic, published in La Gaceta 
 No. 205, September 13, 19^9, to be effective on that date. 
 
 The amendments add cacao to coffee and sugarcane as plants ' 
 which may not be imported by private persons, although at 
 least one official agency, The National Agricultural Center, 
 is permitted to import such plants for research. The un- 
 restricted entry of several classes of seeds provided for 
 in Article 6 of Decree No..l4 has been revoked. 
 
 In the interim since 1929 a Plant Protection Service 
 (Servicio de Sanidad Vegetal) has been set up in the 
 Department of Agriculture which has taken over the in- 
 spection duties previously carried on by the National 
 Agricultural Center. 
 
 " Decree No. 701 
 
 - : - ■'-- Effective September 13, 19^9 
 
 Article 1 amends Articles 1 and 2 of Decree No. Ik of November 
 8, 1929 as follows: - 
 
Article 1. - Private persons are prohibited from im- 
 porting live plants, seeds and reproductive parts of 
 any species and varieties of the genera Coffea , coffee, 
 Saccharum , sugarcane, and Theobroma , cacao. The im- 
 portation of other reproductive plants which in the 
 Judgement of the Department of Agriculture may be in- 
 jurious to national agriculture, is likewise prohibited. 
 
 (importation restricted to official agency. See Art. 5 below) 
 
 Article 2. - The license for the importation of live 
 plants or parts thereof such as roots, tubers, bulbs, 
 rhizomes, sprouts, etc . and seeds of forage and vegetable 
 plants for planting or immediate consumption, as well as 
 ornamental and forest plants, shall be applied for at 
 the Department of Agriculture. The Department will ex- 
 amine said reproductive plants as soon as they arrive in 
 the country and if they are found in perfect sanitary 
 condition, it shall advise the interested parties and the 
 Ministry of Finance so that the plants may be cleared 
 through the Customhouse. 
 
 Article 3 of Decree No. Ik was not revoked by Decree No. 
 701. . Apparently the authority for the destruction of 
 plants found infested or infected without the right of 
 indemnity remains in force . 
 
 Article k of Decree No. Ik referred to inspection pro- 
 cedure which is now performed by the Department of 
 Agriculture. (See Art. 2 above.) 
 
 Article 5 of Decree No. Ik remains in force. It author- 
 izes the National Agricultural Center to import any 
 kind of plants and parts thereof exclusively for research 
 in its experiment stations without observing the pro.- 
 cedures required by the decree . 
 
 Article 2 of Decree No. 701 revokes Article 6 of Decree No. Ik 
 which provided for the unrestricted entry of several classes 
 of seeds . 
 
 Article 3 of Decree No. 701: - Effective date. 
 
 Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine