日本植物保护法(doc 36页)(英文)

(PURPOSE OF THE LAW)
Article 1. The objective of this Law is to ensure the stabilization and development of agricultural production by inspecting export plants, imported plants and domestic plants, by controlling injurious animals and plants and by preventing the outbreak and spread thereof.
(DEFINITIONS)
Article 2. 'Plants' as used in this law shall mean any plant (including a part thereof, seed, fruit and processed goods such as straw mat, straw bale or other similar products) belonging to phanerogam, pteridophyte or bryophyte, exclusive of injurious plants specified in next paragraph.
2. ‘Injurious plants’ as used in this law shall mean any fungus, slime mold, bacterium, parasitic plant or virus which is directly or indirectly injurious to economic plants.
3. ‘Injurious animals’ as used in this law shall mean insect, mite and other arthropod, nematode and other invertebrate animals, and certain vertebrate animals which are proven to be harmful to economic plants.

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