[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 
-3, SUB -SECTION (ii)]  
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA  
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELF ARE  
(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE)  
 
NOTIFICATION                     
 New Delhi, the    August, 2023  
 
S.O.         (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub -section (1) of section 3 of the 
Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914 (2 of 1914), the Central Government hereby makes 
the following Order  further to amend the Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) 
Order, 2003, namely: - 
 
1. Short title and Commencement. -          (1) This Order may be called the  Plant   
      Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India)  
       (Tenth  Amendment) O rder, 202 3.  
(2) It shall come into force on the date of   its   
publication in the Official Gazette.  
 
2. Amendment of Schedule VI. - In the Schedule VI to the Plant Quarantine (Regulation of 
Import into India) Order, 2003  - Against serial number 714, relating to  “ Arundo donax” 
and column (3) against the entry “Tissue culture plants”, the following entries relating 
thereto in columns (4), (5) and (6), shall be inserted, namely: - 
 
 
 
 (4) (5) (6) 
(iii) Hungary  Certified that the tissue culture 
plants were obtained from 
mother stock tested and 
maintained free from any virus.  Nil 
 
 
 
[F.No.8 -34/2021-PP.II]  
 
(Ashish Kumar Srivastava ) 
Joint Secretary to the Government of India  
 
Note : The Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003 was published in the 
Gazette of India, vide, number S.O. 1322 (E) dated 18th November, 2003, and subsequently 
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To 
The Manager,  
Government of India Press,   
Mayapuri,  New Delhi.