[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, 
SECTION -3, SUB -SECTION (ii)]  
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA  
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE  
(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE)  
 
NOTIFICATION                     
 New Delhi, the   December, 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)  
       (Eighteenth  Amendment) Order, 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  - in serial number 774, the existing entry in column (2) 
may be numbered as (i) and  the following entries relating thereto in columns  (2), (3),  (4), 
(5) and (6), shall be inserted, namely: - 
 
 
 
(2) (3)  (4) (5) (6) 
(ii) Fraxinus 
excelsior  Sawn 
timber / 
Logs 
without 
bark Germany  Free from  
a) Agrilus convexicollis  
b) Dryocoetes villosus  
c) Hylesinus varius  
d) Lepidosaphes 
conchyformis  
e) Lymantria monacha  
f) Neoclytus ac uminatus  
g) Poecilonota variolosa  
h) Stenocorus 
meridianus  
i) Xyleborus dispar  
j) Bjerkandera ad usta 
k) Heterobasidion 
annosum  
l) Hymenoscyphus 
fraxineus  
m) Meripilus giganteus  
n) Stereum hirsut um Heat treatment at 
56oC (core 
temperature) for 30 
minutes.  
 
The treatment should 
be endorsed on 
phytosanitary 
certificate issued at 
the country of origin/ 
re-export.  o) Trametes hirsuta  
 
 
 
[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 
amended vide number S.O.167(E), dated 6th February 2004, S.O. 427(E), dated 29th March, 
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