MAKING PUBLIC THE INTERNATIONAL PLANT PROTECTION CONVENTION, SIGNED IN ROME BETWEEN DECEMBER 6, 1951 AND MAY 1, 1952

WHEREAS, the International Plant Protection
Convention was signed in Rome between December 6, 1951 and May 1, 1952 by the
authorized representatives of thirty-seven Governments, including that of the
Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Convention is designed to secure
international cooperation in controlling pests and diseases of plants and plant
products and in preventing their introduction and spread across national
boundaries;

WHEREAS, Article XII of the Convention provides
that it shall be ratified at the earliest possible date and that the
instruments, of ratification shall be deposited with the Director-General of
the Food and Agriculture Organization ;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 128 adopted on May 19, 1953, did concur in
the ratification of the said Convention in accordance with the Constitution of
the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally ratified the said Convention and deposited her instrument of
ratification on December 3, 1953 with the Director-General of the Food and
Agriculture Organization;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Convention, a
copy of which is hereto attached, to be made public to the end that the same
and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary