PLANT PROTECTION LAWCHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS(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.4. ‘Forecast of outbreak program’ as used in this law shall mean the undertaking in which the outbreak of damage on agricultural crops due to injurious animals and plants is surmised beforehand by investigating the conditions of propagation of injurious animals or plants, weather, growth of agricultural crops, etc. and the information obtained thereby is offered to the parties concerned, in order to ensure timely and economical control of injurious animals or plants.5. ‘Electronic information processing system’ as used in this law shall mean the electronic information processing system in which the electronic computer (including input/output devices, hereinafter the same) used by the Plant Protection S...
