Mohammad Bin Rashid issues decision regulating import of palm trees to UAE

Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, issued a decision on Wednesday, regulating import of palm trees to the UAE.

Article 1 of the decision empowers the Minister of Environment and Water to ban import of palm trees or plants from any country where cases of Red Palm Weevil or any palm diseases are detected.

The ban can only be lifted by the minister if such diseases have ceased to exist.