This Ministerial Decree requires the implementation of measures to protect the national territory against quarantine pests and the supervision over compliance with legislation in the area of plant quarantine. Plant quarantine measures shall be applicable to: (a) seeds and planting materials for crops, forests, ornamental species and parts thereof, as well as to any other item of plant origin that may harbour quarantine pests; (b) pests; (c) insect collections, pathogens, herbariums and seed coll