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1. Financial Resources andMechanisms

The representatives of the South-AmericanCountries identified some priority, concrete andimmediate actions to be implemented at a regionaland sub regional scale (Chapter 1). The involvementof institutions and agencies that give financial andtechnical support for the implementation of theseactions is of fundamental importance. In that sensethe representatives of the South American Countriesaccord, through the Declaration of the Meeting thatthey should:

“Request that the Funding Institutions, theImplementing Agencies and Organisms forTechnical Cooperation, participants of themeeting, make an effort to support technicallyand financially the common interest themesidentified from the priority components,themes and goals defined in theaforementioned meeting.”

In fact, the Convention on Biological Diversityacknowledges that substantial investments arerequired to conserve biological diversity, and that theprovision of new and additional financial resourcesand appropriate access to relevant technologies canbe expected to make a substantial difference in theworld’s ability to address the loss of biologicaldiversity. The Convention further states:

“The extent to which developing countryParties will effectively implement theircommitments under this Convention willdepend on the effective implementation bydeveloped country Parties of theircommitments under this Convention relatedto financial resources and transfer oftechnology and will take fully into account thefact that economic and social developmentand eradication of poverty are the first andoverriding priorities of the developing countryParties.”

As a result, financial resources andmechanism are one of standing items on the agendaof the ordinary meetings of the Conference of the

FORMAL AGREEMENTS ON BIODIVERSITY AMONG THE SOUTH-AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND FINANCIAL MECHANISMS

Parties and a Forum on Financing for BiologicalDiversity was created. The Forum provides anopportunity for Parties and Governments, financialmechanism, funding institutions and developmentagencies, as well as relevant stakeholders, toexchange views, share experience and information,discuss issues and present outcomes of anyresearch or study on financing for biological diversity.The workshops are normally organized by theSecretariat of the Convention or with the involvementof the Secretariat.

Below, some of the multilateral and regionalinstitutions, mentioned by the CDB Secretariat (http://www.biodiv.org/financial/sources.asp) as fundingsources for environmental actions, are described inwhat concerns their action lines related toenvironmental and biodiversity issues. Most of theseinstitutions were represented in the Meeting (SeeList of Participants).

1.1 Global Environment Facility - GEF(http://www.gefweb.orghttp://www.gefweb.orghttp://www.gefweb.orghttp://www.gefweb.orghttp://www.gefweb.org)

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is aninternational financial organization established in1991 that helps developing countries fund projectsand programs that protect the global environment.

GEF grants support projects related tobiodiversity, climate change, international waters,land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistentorganic pollutants. Since 1991, the GEF hasprovided $4.5 billion in grants and generated $14.5billion in co-financing from other partners for projectsin developing countries and countries witheconomies in transition.

GEF funds are contributed by donor countries.In 2002, 32 donor countries pledged $3 billion to fundoperations between 2002 and 2006.

1.2 The World Bank - BIRD(http://web.worldbank.org)

BIRD is one of the United Nations’ specializedagencies, and is made up of 184 member countries.One of the world’s largest sources of developmentassistance, the World Bank supports the efforts ofdeveloping country governments to build schools andhealth centers, provide water and electricity, fight

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against disease, and protect the environment.The goal of the World Bank’s Environment

Strategy is to promote environmental improvementsas a fundamental element of the development andpoverty reduction strategies and actions. TheStrategy has three interrelated objectives: improvingpeople’s quality of life; improving the prospects forand the quality of growth; and protecting the qualityof the regional and global environmental commons.

As an implementing agency for the GlobalEnvironment Facility (GEF) and the Multilateral Fundfor the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, theBank is mobilizing grant funding for environmentalaction with global benefits. Through the PrototypeCarbon Fund (PCF), and other mechanisms, theBank is facilitating market solutions to environmentalproblems. Environment and Natural ResourcesManagement is one of eleven thematic groups, andincludes the following themes:

Biodiversity;Climate change;Environmental policies and institutions;Land management;Pollution management and environmentalhealth;water resources management;other environment and natural resourcesmanagement.

As part of its environmental assistanceprogram, the Bank has developed a portfolio ofprojects with environmental objectives. Preliminaryestimates reveal that the Bank’s environmentportfolio of projects under supervision amounts to$16.4 billion.

1.3 United Nations Development Programme1.3 United Nations Development Programme1.3 United Nations Development Programme1.3 United Nations Development Programme1.3 United Nations Development Programme- UNDP - UNDP - UNDP - UNDP - UNDP (((((www.undp.orgwww.undp.orgwww.undp.orgwww.undp.orgwww.undp.org)

Biodiversity loss exacerbates poverty, andlikewise, poverty is a major threat to biodiversity.Thus, UNDP has made Biodiversity forDevelopment a prime focus of its Energy andEnvironment Practice. Through capacitydevelopment, knowledge management, policyadvice and advocacy, UNDP helps more than 140countries to maintain and sustainably usebiodiversity.

UNDP supports the sustainablemanagement of agriculture, fisheries, forests andenergy, and a pro-poor approach to conservationand protected areas, biotechnology and the

development of viable, new markets for ecosystemservices. Closely integrated activities, including itsBiodiversity Global Program, the Equator Initiative,the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the GEFSmall Grants Program enable UNDP to leveragechange at the local, national, regional and globallevels.

1.4 United Nations Environment Programme- UNEP (www.rolac.unep.mx)

The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) is built on a heritage of service to theenvironment. UNEP’s uniqueness lies in itsadvocacy of environmental concerns within theinternational system. In this sense, it makes aparticular effort to nurture partnerships with otherUN bodies possessing complementary skills anddelivery capabilities and enhancing the participationof civil society - the private sector, scientificcommunity, non-governmental organizations, youth,women, and sports organizations in the achievementof sustainable development.

1.5 United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization - UNESCO(http://www.unesco.org/mab/index.htm)

UNESCO is a specialized United Nationsagency founded on November 16th 1945. Nowadays,UNESCO has been involved in a wide range ofactivities: Education, Natural, Human and SocialSciences, Culture, Communication and Information.

UNESCO’s Program on Man and theBiosphere (MAB) develops the basis, within thenatural and the social sciences, for the sustainableuse and conservation of biological diversity, and forthe improvement of the relationship between peopleand their global environment. The MAB Programencourages interdisciplinary research,demonstration and training in natural resourcemanagement, contributing to greater involvement ofscience and scientists in policy developmentconcerning the wise use of biological diversity. Overthe next decades, by taking advantage of themultidisciplinary and cross-cultural opportunities ofUNESCO’s mandate in the fields of education,science, culture and communication, MAB ispromoting both scientific research and informationgathering, as well as linking with traditional knowledgeabout resource use. It must serve to help implementAgenda 21 and related Conventions, in particular the

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Convention on Biological Diversity.

1.6 The Food and Agriculture Organization1.6 The Food and Agriculture Organization1.6 The Food and Agriculture Organization1.6 The Food and Agriculture Organization1.6 The Food and Agriculture Organizationof the United Nations - FAO of the United Nations - FAO of the United Nations - FAO of the United Nations - FAO of the United Nations - FAO (((((www.fao.org)www.fao.org)www.fao.org)www.fao.org)www.fao.org)

FAO serves both developed and developingcountries, helping them to modernize and improveagriculture, forestry and fisheries practices andensure good nutrition for all.

FAO is a key partner in the implementationof the three environmental conventions, namely, theUnited Nations Convention on Biological Diversity(UNCBD) (FAO’s mandate involvingagrobiodiversity), the United Nations Convention toCombat Desertification (UNCCD) and the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC). FAO is Task Manager for four of Agenda21’s key chapters:

Planning and management of landresources;Combating deforestation;Sustainable mountain development;Sustainable agriculture and ruraldevelopment;Combating desertification and drought;Conservation of biological diversity;Climate change; andSustainable energy.

FAO’s field programs aim at to conciliateconservation and utilization of biodiversity andgenetic resources, offering technical advice andassistance to governments in planning and carryingout conservation projects, thus stimulating policy andinstitutional reform.

Publications and a wide range of educationaland training materials are produced on the use andconservation of biological diversity and geneticresources.

1.7 The World Conservation Union - IUCN(http://www.iucn.org)

Its members include 140 countries, 114government agencies, and about 800 NGOs. ItsMission is to influence, encourage and assistsocieties throughout the world to conserve theintegrity and diversity of nature and to ensure thatany use of natural resources is equitable andecologically sustainable.

Through its projects IUCN works to applysound ecosystem management to demonstrate how

this is the only way to sustainable livelihoods forthose directly dependent on natural resources. IUCNhas been actively engaged in restoring ecosystemsand regenerating people’s lives, economies andsocieties.

Almost half of all regional programexpenditure is in Africa, and one third in Asia. During2002 IUCN invested in strengthening its program inEurope, West and Central Asia and North Africa, andSouth America.

1.8 European Union - EU(http://www.europa.eu.int)

The European Union (EU) is a family ofdemocratic European countries, committed toworking together for peace and prosperity.

European Union environment policy is basedon the belief that high environmental standardsstimulate innovation and business opportunities. Thecornerstone of EU environmental action is the SixthEnvironment Action Program entitled Environment2010: Our Future, Our Choice. It covers the period2001 to 2010. Its priorities are:

Tackling climate change and globalwarming;Protecting natural habitat and wildlife;Addressing environment and healthissues;Preserving natural resources andmanaging waste.

Monitoring the environment state andproviding early warning of coming problems is thejob of the European Environment Agency inCopenhagen.

Research into problems affecting theenvironment or the natural habitat receives fundingunder the LIFE program. Financed primarily by theEU, but also by some other countries which haveclose relationship to EU, LIFE has a budget of €640million for 2000-2004.

1.9 Brazilian Development Bank - BNDES(http://www.bndes.gov.br)

The Brazilian Development Bank - BNDESis a federal public company that is associated to theMinistry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade,which has as an objective of financing, in the longterm, endeavors that contribute towards thedevelopment of the country.

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Observing ethical-environmental principles isassumed to be of fundamental importance, in theexecution of its credit policy, keeping in mind thecommitment with the present and future generations.In 1999, the BNDES’s Environmental Policy waspublished, being the bank’s financing activity in theenvironmental area consolidated in three main areas:

1. Condition of credit to the environmentalconsistency of the borrower;

2. Offer of resources for environmentaladaptation projects;

3. Support of endeavors with the objectiveof environmental recovery andconservation with economic returns.

1.10 Institut de Recherch pour leDéveloppement - IRD (http://www.ird.fr)

IRD is a French public science andtechnology research institute under the joint authorityof the French ministries in charge of research andoverseas development.

IRD has three main missions: research,consultancy and training. It conducts scientificprograms contributing to the sustainabledevelopment of the countries of the South, with anemphasis on the relationship between man andenvironment. More specifically, the IRD’s researchcomes under nine main headings:

1. Tropical climate variability and its regionalimpact;

2. The geodynamic approach to mineralresources and natural hazards;

3. Dynamics and use of water resources;4. Dynamics and uses of Mediterranean and

tropical terrestrial ecosystems;5. Dynamics and uses of marine, coastal

and inland aquatic ecosystems;6. Biological foundations of agricultural and

agro-industrial use of biodiversity;7. Health and development;8. Urban issues and development;9. Social and economic aspects of

development

1.11 Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization - ACTO(http://www.otca.org.br)

It competes to the ACTO the favoring of themechanisms development that stimulate theinvestments and the commerce of biodiversityproducts and services or harmless to the

atmosphere in order to reach the objectives of theConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and toadvance in the sustainable development of theAmazon Region.

A Regional Program of Sustainable Use ofthe Amazonian Biodiversity has been designed andformulated in order to promote the development ofthe commercial and productive chains for bothregional internal consumption and export to globalmarkets.

The action plan of the OTCA presents fourgreat strategic axes:

1. Conservation and sustainable use ofrenewable natural resources;

2. Knowledge management andtechnological transference;

3. Integration and regional competitivity;4. Institutional strengthening

Its action is included into six programmaticareas: water, forests, soils and natural protectedareas; biological diversity, biotechnology andbiotrade; Territorial Ordering, human settlement andindigenous subjects; social infrastructure; health andeducation; transport infrastructure, energy andcommunications.

1.12 Japan International CooperationAgency - JICA (http://www.jica.org.br)

The Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) has as objectives the technology transferenceand the support to programs and projects that aimat the sustainable development of the developingcountries.

JICA acts in the following areas:Environment;Agriculture;Health;Social development; andMultilateral cooperation.

Along the years, JICA has sent 7,800 Brazilianscholarship holders to study in Japan, 2,200Japanese experts to support projects in Brazil, andhas carried out a total of 53 projects and studieswith average duration of five years.

The priority areas of JICA for Cooperation inEnvironment are:

Recovery of degraded areas;Agro-forestry Systems;Networks and exchanges of experiences;Amazonian Region.

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1.13 The Amazon Bank – BASA(http://www.bancoamazonia.com.br)

BASA is a Federal Financial Public Institutionlinked to the Treasury that applies resources throughannual programs elaborated according to theenvironmental, social and economic realities of theRegion. It works in association with representativesof public institutions and diverse segments ofsociety. It has the special function of financial agentof the Federal Government policy for developmentof the Legal Amazon through promotion resources,products and services, aiming at the satisfaction ofsociety, clients and shareholders.

BASA, with resources of the ConstitutionalNorth Fund - FNO, finances the Rural, Industrialistand Touristy sectors. The FNO is the main sourceof stable financial resources for promotion credit,managed to take care of the productive activities oflow environmental impact, whose macro guidelinesis the sustainable development of the NorthernRegion. Some programs developed by BASA canbe mentioned:

Support Program to EnvironmentConservation and Sustainability -PROSUMAMSupport Program to Plant ExtractivismDevelopment - PRODEX - that aims topromote the access to rural credit by theproducers at the extractivist areas, as away to preserve the forestry resourcesSupport Program to Small Companies -PROMICRO.Program of Regional TourismDevelopment - PRODETUR, consideringthe conventional tourism activities as wellas the ecotourism.

1.14 The Brazilian Biodiversity Fund -FUNBIO (http://www.funbio.org.br)

FUNBIO is a nonprofit civil associationfounded in October 1995. Its general objective is tocomplement governmental action to conserve andsustainably use the country’s biological diversity, inaccordance with the worldwide Convention onBiological Diversity (CBD), and the NationalBiological Biodiversity Program (PRONABIO).

Its specific goal is to operate a fund that

provides financial and material support to initiativesrelated to conservation and sustainable use ofbiodiversity resources in Brazil. FUNBIO received agrant from GEF (Global Environmental Facility), inof US$ 20 million. Since 1996, FUNBIO hassupported 62 projects for a total of US $13 million.

Created as an innovative Fund, FUNBIO hassought diverse forms of activity in the area ofpromotion. In principle, it can fund differentorganizations - public and private - and projects invarious modalities, biomes, and regions.

Business, nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) with projects related to conservation andsustainable use of biodiversity, and localcommunities that benefit from those actions makethe Fund’s clientele. Currently, possible modalitiesof support are:

Biodiversity conservation;Sustainable use associated to biologicaldiversity conservation;Development of applied research whoseresults may provide input to conservationand sustainable use of biodiversity;Analyses and studies of policies andmeasures for conserving biologicalresources and stimulating theirsustainable use.

FUNBIO is available to collaborate, by sharingexperiences and knowledge with other SouthAmerican countries, in the development of thefollowing activities:

Ddevelop a communication/informationmechanism directed to the facilitation ofthe South American Cooperation andInterchange (SACI) Initiative.Develop strategic alliances withcooperation and technical assistanceagencies with the purpose of obtaining thenecessary support for the SACI initiative.To develop and put in place financialmechanisms capable of finding andraising the resources necessary tosupport the implementation of NBSs andRBSs action plans.To develop and operate a specificcommunication/information activity for theexchange of experiences and knowledgein biotrade.

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1.15 Brazilian Cooperation Agency - ABC(http://www.abc.mre.gov.br)

The Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), thatcomposes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE)structure, has the attribution to negotiate, coordinate,implement and monitor the Brazilian programs andprojects on technical cooperation, executed on thebasis of the agreements signed by Brazil with othercountries and international organisms.

Among other services, ABC orients thenational institutions on the existing opportunities atthe scope of the several agreements of internationaltechnical cooperation signed by Brazil. Besides, ABCintensifies and strengthens political and economicBrazilian relationships, through the transference oftechnologies and creative solutions, based on thenational experience on development, for countriesin Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, East Europe,Asia and Medium Orient.

2. Formal Agreements Compilation

This session presents a compilation of themain formal agreements (bilateral and regional) inthe field of biodiversity and environment that areeffective among the South American participantcountries of the Meeting1.

With the intention to verify which subjectsrelated to biodiversity have been enclosed in theagreements among the South-American countries,the content of each agreement was evaluated andrelated with the subjects (from 1 to 6) indicatedbelow. These subjects correspond to thecomponents of the National Biodiversity Policy ofBrazil, whose elaboration resulted of an ampleprocess of consultation to the nation and culminated

in the promulgation of the Decree No 4339, August22nd 2002. The subjects had been a suggestion ofthe Government of Brazil, but, in case that it hadinterest, the countries could indicate agreementsrelated to other subjects (7).

1) Biodiversity Knowledge;2) Biodiversity Conservation;3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

Components;4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment, and

Impact Prevention and Mitigation;5) Access to Genetic Resources and

Associated Traditional Knowledge andBenefit-sharing;

6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity;

7) Other themes.

The name of the agreement, the place andthe date where it was signed, the date of entranceinto force, the involved countries, the correlatedlegislation and the electronic address with moreinformation had been congregated in Tables 4.1 to4.26.

The existence of legal mechanisms andalready established policies among the South-American countries relative to the diverse biodiversitysubjects would facilitate the implementation of theactions proposed in the scope of the Meeting. It willbe also possible to identify which of the subjectsare being less discussed within the history ofcooperation among the South American countries,toward which more attention will have to be paid withthe proposal of new joint actions and agreements.Moreover, the compilation presented here can beimportant for posterior consultations.

1 The presented information corresponds to the compilation of the agreements informed by Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, FrenchGuyana, Paraguay and Suriname. The information for the other countries had been collected through a research in the internet.

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Table 4.1. Regional Acts in force for Brazil in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Act/Place/Date of the Signature

Entry into Forceof the Act/

Entry into Forcein the Country

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date

Web Site

Convention on Nature Protection andWildlife Preservation in the WesternHemisphere/Washington,12/10/1940

Convention Relative to theInternational Institute of theAmazonian Hilea/Iquitos (Peru),10/05/1948

Agreement for the Establishment in apermanent character of the Latin-American Institute of ForestryTraining and Research, under theauspices of the Food and AgricultureOrganization of the United Nations,seated at the Forestry School of theAndean University, at Merida,Venezuela/Roma, 18/11/1959

01/05/194226/11/1965

10/05/1948-

Content of the Act

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

American Countries

X

X

X

X X

X

DLG 313/02/1948DEC 5805423/03/1966

http://wwwt.senado.gov.br/legbras/

DEL 68215/07/1969DEC 6708419/08/1970

DLG 3417/09/1968

14/08/197014/08/1970

X X

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,Paraguay and Uruguay

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, France, Italy,Netherlands, Peru andVenezuela

Caribbean, Latin America,France, Netherlands, UnitedKingdom

DLG 251963

DEC 5360625/02/1964

18/07/1967

18/11/1959-

Treaty of the Prata River Basin/Brasília, 23/04/1969

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Web SiteContent of the Act

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19/05/19711984

Agreement between Governmentsand Organizations for the Creation ofa Consultative Group on InternationalAgricultural Research (CGIAR)/Washington, 19/05/1971

Amazonian Cooperation Treaty (ACT)/Brasília, 03/07/1978

Convention on the Inter-AmericanInstitute for Cooperation onAgriculture (IICA) (created byresolution of the Directive Council ofthe Pan-American Union on October7th 1942, and redefined in 1979)/Washington, 06/03/1979

Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,Belgium, Brazil, Canada,China, Colombia, Coted’Ivoire, Denmark, Egypt,Finland, France, Germany,Great Britain, India, Indonesia,Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy,Japan, Kenya, Korea,Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,Holland, New Zealand,Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan,Peru, Philippines, Portugal,South Africa, Romania,Russian Federation, Spain,Switzerland, Sweden, Syria,Thailand, Uganda, and USA.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,Suriname and Venezuela

Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica,Dominica, Dominican Republic,Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada,Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, Spain, Saint Lucy, St. Kittis& Nevis, Saint Vicent & theGrenadines, Suriname, Trinidad& Tobago, United States,Uruguay, Venezuela

www.cgiar.org


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DLG 6918/10/1978

R. 09/11/1978DEC 8505018/08/1980

X X X

X

http://www.iica.org.br/

www.senado.gov.br

DEC 5393901/06/1964DEC 8636515/09/1981DEC 361

10/12/1991

12/08/197902/10/1980

02/08/198002/08/1980

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http://www.tratadoamazonico.org/Esp/index.htm

D.O.U.29/12/1980


24/10/1980Statement of Belém to celebrate theFirst Meeting of Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Signatory Countries ofthe Amazonian Cooperation Treaty/Belém, 24/10/1980

Cooperative Program for theTechnological, Agro-alimentary andAgro-industrial Development of theSouth Cone (PROCISUR) representedby the National Institutes of Cattle andFarming Research and the IICA/April1980

Statement of Manaus to celebrate thefirst Meeting of Amazonian Countries’Presidents/Manaus, 06/05/1989

Accord for the Constitution of theRegional Committee of Vegetal Health(COSAVE), as a RPPO (RegionalPlants Protection Organization) in thescope of the International PlantProtection Convention (IPPC),06/12/1951, and the FAO/Montevideo,09/03/1989

Treaty of Asunción for the Constitutionof the South Cone Common Market(MERCOSUL), between the Republic ofArgentina, the Federative Republic ofBrazil, the Republic of Paraguay andthe Oriental Republic of Uruguay/Asunción, 26/03/1991

DLG 197 25/09/1991

DEC 35021/11/1991DEC s/no

04/12/1991DEC s/no

19/04/1994

13/05/199223/06/1993

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico,Panama, Paraguay, Peru, UnitedStates, Uruguay and Venezuela

DLG 0424/03/1993

R. 07/05/1993DEC 254413/04/1998


http://www.iai.int/

X X X

XX X

X X X X X

X

X X

X X

X

DLG 0909/08/1990DEC 161

02/07/1991

29/11/199129/11/1991

09/03/198901/10/1990

06/05/1989

1980

Agreement Constituent of the Inter-American Institute for Researches onGlobal Changing - Montevideo Act (IAI)/Montevideo, 13/05/1992

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay andUruguay

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguayand Uruguay


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Paraguay, Uruguay


http://www.cosave.org/index.php?cat=documentos&sub=convenio&pag=convenio


http://www.prodiversitas.bioetica.org/doc11.htm

http://www.procisur.org.uy/quees.html

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Cooperative Program of Research andTechnology Transference for the SouthAmerican Tropics (PROCITROPICOS)constituted throughout a CooperationAccord celebrated between the NationalInstitutes of Cattle and FarmingResearch and the IICA/1992

Regional Agreement of Scientific andTechnological Cooperation among themember-countries of the Latin-American Association for Integration(ALADI)/Montevideo, 19/10/1993

Accord aiming the Installation of a Sub-regional Knot on the Electronic Systemfor the Interchange of EnvironmentalInformation (UNEPnet - ALC) at theUnited Nations EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP) scope/29/07/1994

Inter-regional Cooperation Agreementbetween the European Community andits Member-states and the Mercosuland its Parties-states/Madrid,15/12/1995

Inter-American Convention for theProtection and Conservation of SeaTurtles/Caracas, 01/12/1996

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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru,Surinam

DEC 113203/05/1994

DLG 1004/02/1997

R. 27/07/1999DEC 319205/10/1999

www.procitropicos.org.br


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X

X

X X X X

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Brazil and UNEP

02/05/200102/05/2001

01/07/199901/07/1999

29/07/1994-

19/10/199304/05/1994

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay andVenezuela

Argentina, Austria, Belgium,Brazil, Denmark, Finland,France, Germany, Great Britain,Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Northern IrelandParaguay, Portugal, Spain,Sweden, and Uruguay

DLG 9114/10/1999DEC 384213/06/2001

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Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguayand Uruguay (COSAVE), AmericanRegional Organizations ofPhytosanitary Protection (ORPFS):the Caribbean Commission forPhytosanitary Protection (CPPC);the General Secretariat of theAndean Community (CA); theNorth American Organization ofPhytosanitary Protection (NAPPO);and the Regional InternationalOrganism of Agriculture and CattleSanity (OIRSA),

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,Uruguay

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,Guyana, Peru, Surinam andVenezuela

1998Agreement for the creation of theInter-American Net Information onBiodiversity (IABIN), firmed at theSanta Cruz Summit of the AmericasMeeting of Heads of State scope/SantaCruz, Bolivia, 1996

Memorandum of Understandingbetween the American RegionalOrganisms of PhytosanitaryProtection to the Formal Constitutionof the Inter-American CoordinationGroup on Vegetal Health (GICSV),23/03/1998

www.iabin.net

http://www.cosave.org/index.php?cat=gicsv&sub=convenio_constitutivo&pag=convenio_constitutivo

www.mma.gov.br/port/sqa/mercosul/docmerc/atas/an2a2_a1.html

X X X

X

X X X X X

X X X X

23/03/199823/03/1998

27/06/200424/07/2003

14/09/2004Declaration of Manaus to celebratethe VIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-membersof he Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus,14/09/2004

Mercosul Framework-Agreement onEnvironment/Asunción, 22/06/2001

DLG 33324/07/2003

R. 09/10/2003

X

D.O.U.: Official Union Diary; DEC: Decree; DEC s/no: Not Numbered Decree; DLG: Legislative Decree; DEL: Decree-Law; R: Ratification

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Nº/Date

Promulgation

Table 4.2. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Brazil in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Argentina

Agreement for Conservation of the South AtlanticNatural Resources between Brazil and Argentina/Buenos Aires, 29/12/1967

Agreement of Fishing between Brazil and Argentina/Buenos Aires, 29/12/1967

Agreement of Scientific and Technological Cooperation/Buenos Aires, 17/05/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Agreement ofScientific and Technological Cooperation, onCooperation in the Field of the Reforestation and theForest Law /Brasília, 15/08/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Agreement ofScientific and Technological Cooperation, onCooperation in the Field of the Cattle and FarmingResearch/Brasília, 15/08/1980

Treaty for the Exploitation of the Shared HydrologicalResources of the Bordering Stretches of the RiverUruguay and its Tributary, the River Pepiri-Guaçu/Buenos Aires, 17/05/80

Agreement on Animal Health in Border Areas/BuenosAires, 17/05/1980

Complementary Accord to the Agreement of Scientificand Technological Cooperation of 17/05/80, in the Fieldof the Vegetal Health/Brasília, 10/10/1984

Agreement of Partial Reach of Cooperation andInterchange of Goods Used in the Defense andProtection of the Environment between Brazil andArgentina/Las Leñas, 27/06/92

11/02/1969 DLG 45411/02/69

DLG 7025/11/1981DEC 8755909/09/1982

D.O.U.No 175

14/09/1982

D.O.U.No 175

14/09/1982

DLG 8203/09/1992DEC 8844129/06/1983

DLG 1131/03/1982

DEC 65215/09/92DEC 95608/10/93

X

X

X



X

X

X

XX

X XX

XX

XDLG 45306/02/69

X

X

X

15/09/1992

10/10/1984

01/06/1983

29/06/1983

15/08/1980

15/08/1980

18/08/1982

06/02/1969

D.O.U. No 20218/10/1984





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Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Matter/Buenos Aires, 09/04/1996

Agreement for the Creation of the Commission ofCooperation and Bordering Development/Brasília,10/11/1997

1998 DLG 629/01/1997DEC 258612/05/1998

DLG 2331/03/1999DEC 307801/06/1999

X

X X X

X

X X X X


Argentina

Bolivia

Basic agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation/La Paz, 10/07/1973

Accord of Animal Health in Border Areas/Brasília,17/08/1977

Accord for the Preservation, Conservation andMonitoring of the Natural Resources in the BorderingAreas/Brasília, 15/08/1990

Agreement, through Note exchange, Relative to theAccord between the INPE and the SENAMHI/La Paz,23/02/1996

Memorandum of Understanding for the Establishmentof a Subprogram of Technical Cooperation inSustainable Development and Transference ofThematic Information/Brasília, 17/06/1997

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical, Scientific and Technological Cooperation forthe Implementation of the Project of Management ofWild Fauna/Brasília, 18/11/2003

DLG 7127/11/1973DEC 7462801/10/1974

D.O.U.No 249

23/12/2003

D.O.U section Ip. 3493

27/06/1997

D.O.U section INo 49

12/03/1996

DLG 9118/12/1992DEC 302613/04/1999

DLG 1152/12/1977

DEC 8330904/04/1979

05/03/1979

30/09/1998

23/02/1996

17/06/1997


X

X

X X X X X

X

X

X X X

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/b_boli_226_3747.htm




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10/09/1974

2002

1999

Environmental Protocol of the Border of the RiverUruguay/Porto Xavier (RS), 13/03/2002

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10/10/1980

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X

XChile

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation, in the ForestField, of July 19th 1974/Santiago, 10/10/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation, in the Field of theFarming and Cattle Health, July 19th 1974/Santiago,10/10/1980

Basic Agreement of Scientific, Technical andTechnological Cooperation /Brasília, 26/07/1990

.

D.O.U section I12/12/1980

D.O.U.No 237

12/12/1980

DLG 6716/09/1992DEC 667

15/10/1992


Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation for theExecution of Studies and Actions of Common Interest inthe Area of Agriculture/Brasília, 25/03/1996

25/03/1996 D.O.U.No 8025/04/1996

DLG 2912/06/1997DEC 254915/04/1998

X X

X


Agreement for the Conservation of the Flora and theFauna of the Amazonian Territories/Bogotá, 20/06/1973

Colombia

DLG 7203/12/1973DEC 7801712/07/1976

DLG 6629/06/1982DEC 9266116/05/1986

Agreement of Amazonian Cooperation between theGovernment of the Federative Republic of Brazil andthe Government of the Republic of Colombia/Bogotá,12/03/1981

DLG 703/06/1985DEC 9250226/03/1986

Complementary Accord to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation, on Technical, Scientific andTechnological Cooperation in the Field of the BasicSanitation and Protection of the Environment/Brasília,02/09/1981

Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation /Bogotá, 12/03/1981

17/07/1976

10/04/1986

X X X

X

X

X



27/02/1986

05/03/1986

D.O.Usection INo 097

25/05/1988

X

X X X

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific, Technical and Technological Cooperation inthe Matter of Farming Health/Brasília, 25/03/1996

01/08/1997


10/10/1980

28/09/1992

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Nº/Date

Promulgation

ColombiaDLG 7

21/05/1990DEC 342220/04/2000

02/09/1981




DLG 22812/12/1991DEC 342420/04/2000

Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Brasília, 09/02/1982

04/01/1985 DLG 4723/10/1984DEC 9084523/01/1985

D.O.U section INo 227

29/11/1999

X

X X X X X

Ecuador


DLG 351984

DEC 9669414/09/1988

08/04/1986Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Georgetown, 29/01/1982

GuyanaDLG 32

05/12/1985DEC 9293117/07/1986

31/05/1986Agreement of Amazonian Cooperation Between theGovernment of the Federative Republic of Brazil and theGovernment of the Cooperativist Republic of Guyana/Brasília, 05/10/1982

France/FrenchGuyana

Agreement of Scientific and Technical Cooperation/Paris, 16/01/1967

03/08/1968 DLG 81968

DEC 6340410/10/1968



X X X

X

X

X

X

X

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation of 09/02/1982, forImplementation of the Project of Conservation andSustainable Development in the Sangay NationalPark/Quito, 08/10/1999

Agreement on Animal Health for the Interchange ofAnimals and Products of Animal Origin/Bogotá, 09/02/1988

Accord between the Republic of Colombia and theFederative Republic of Brazil, on Animal Health inBordering Areas/Bogotá, 16/07/1985

28/01/1997

08/10/1999

18/05/1994

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France/French Guyana

Framework-Agreement of Cooperation/Paris,28/05/1996

II Meeting of the Work group of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation, in the scope of the General CommissionBrazil-France and the Agreement of Scientific andTechnical Cooperation, January 16th 1967/Brasília, 17to19th April 2000

Memorandum of Understanding on Scientific andTechnological Cooperation in Priority Areas/Brasília,05/04/2001

Joint Statement in the Scope of the Fight AgainstCatastrophes of Natural and Technological Origin, andin Particular Against Forest Fires/Brasília, 5/04/2001

Statement on Cooperation for the Preservation ofBiodiversity and Sustainable Development in Amapáand in French Guyana, signed during the III Meeting ofTransboundering Cooperation Brazil-France/Macapá,28 to 30th January 2002

01/04/1997 DLG 528/01/1997DEC 220008/04/1997

Final Minutes

X X

X X X

X

X

X X X X


http://www.ambafrance.org.br/abr/atualidades/cooperacao6.htm

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/francdeclara%E7%E3o.htm

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/francprioritarias.htm

Agreement for the Conservation of the Aquatic Fauna inthe Courses of the Bordering Rivers of Paraguay andBrazil/Brasília, 01/09/1994

Agreement of Cooperation for the Combat to theTimber Illicit Traffic between Paraguay and Brazil/Brasília, 01/09/1994Paraguay

06/12/1995 DLG 13810/11/1995DEC 180606/02/1996

X X X

X X X

X X X


29/04/1996

02/05/2002

Final Minutes

5/04/2001

19/04/2000

05/04/2001

30/01/2002

Additional Protocol to the Agreement for theConservation of the Fauna in the Courses of theBordering Rivers of Paraguay and Brazil – Apa River onthe Creation of New Sustainable Uses in the BorderingRivers/Brasília, 19/05/1999

DLG 3310/04/2002DEC 425603/06/2002

DLG 13005/10/1995DEC 195411/07/1996


http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/paragmad.htm

http://www.dct.mre.gov.br/comistafranca2000PORT.htm

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Peru

Agreement for the Conservation of the Flora and theFauna of the Amazonian Territories of the FederativeRepublic of Brazil and the Republic of Peru/Lima,07/11/1975

DLG 3917/05/1976DEC 7880223/11/1976

DLG 4628/05/1976DEC 7880123/11/1976

X



Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation in the Area ofAgriculture/Lima, 21/07/1999

Complementary Adjustment in the Area of AmazonianEnvironment, to the Basic Agreement of Scientific andTechnical Cooperation between the Government ofthe Federative Republic of Brazil and the Governmentof Peru/Lima, 06/12/1999

Memorandum of Understanding between theGovernments of the Republic of Peru and theFederative Republic of Brazil on Cooperation in Matterof Monitoring and Protection of the Amazon/Lima,25/08/2003

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation for ProjectImplementation of the Control of Wild Anger/Lima,24/06/2003

21/07/1999

05/11/1976

05/11/1976

D.O.U.No 155

13/08/1999

D.O.U.No 33

17/02/2004

X X

X X X

X X

X

X X X

http://www.rree.gob.pe/portal/enlaces.nsf/0/db1e3965b63554d005256d8d0074abf1?OpenDocument

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/b_peru_138_5106.htm

Suriname Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation /Brasília, 22/06/1976

01/11/1976 DLG 7530/09/1976DEC 7880323/11/1976

X


D.O.U.No 137

18/07/2003

D.O.U.No 6

10/01/2000

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/b_peru_148_5135.htm

18/07/2003

Protocol for a System Implementation of Preventionand Control of Bush Fires/Lima, 25/08/2003

06/12/1999

25/08/03


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19/01/2004


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Agreement of Fishing and Preservation of LivingResources, between Brazil and Uruguay/Montevideo,12/12/68

Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation/Rivera, 12/06/1975

Adjustment Relative to Animal Health,Complementary to the Basic Agreement of Scientificand Technical Cooperation/27/01/1978

Zoo-sanitary Accord for the Interchange of Animalsand Products of Animal Origin/Montevideo,14/08/1985

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreementof Scientific and Technical Cooperation, onCooperation in the Field of Cattle and Farming/Brasília, 13/08/1986

Joint Statement on Environment/Brasília, 16/09/1991

Uruguay

1969

09/07/1976

27/01/1978

DEL 41209/01/1969

R. 14/01/1969

DLG 7608/09/1975DEC 7815902/08/1976

DLG 111/02/1988DEC 674

29/10/1992

X X

X

X

X

X X X X

X X X X


http://wwwt.senado.gov.br/legbras


Agreement of Cooperation Between the Governmentof Brazil and the Government of Uruguay for theExploitation of the Natural Resources and theDevelopment of the Quaraí River Basin/Artigas, 11/03/91

Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Matter/Montevidéu, 28/12/1992

1992 DLG 1315/04/1992DEC 657

24/09/1992X X X

X X X

Basic Accord of Technical Cooperation/Santa Elena deUairén, 20/07/1973

16/05/1974DLG 53

11/09/1973DEC 7432929/07/1974 X

http://wwwt.senado.gov.br/legbras/Venezuela


http://wwwt.senado.gov.br/legbras

DLG 7404/05/1995DEC 224103/06/1997

D.O.U.No 166

01/09/1986

16/09/1991

25/05/1997

13/08/1986

22/07/1992

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Friendship and Cooperation Accord Between theFederative Republic of Brazil and the Republic ofVenezuela/Brasília, 17/11/1977

25/09/1981

04/03/1994

06/04/2002

DLG 4830/06/1978DEC 8332010/04/1979

DLG 3917/08/1981DEC 8648316/10/1981


http://www.mre.gov.br/portugues/imprensa/nota_detalhe.asp?ID_RELEASE=753

X X

X

X

X X

X

XX X

X

XX13/08/2001

07/01/1998

04/07/1995

Protocol of the Guzmania, Additional Protocol to theAccord of Friendship and Cooperation of November17th 1977/ 04/03/1994

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Accord ofTechnical Cooperation for the Amazonian Cooperationand of the Orinoco/Caracas, 04/07/1995

Complementary Adjustment to the Accord of Friendshipand Cooperation in Matter of Animal and Plant Health/Brasília, 08/12/1997

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Accord ofTechnical Cooperation in the Field of AgrarianDevelopment/Santa Elena de Vairén, 13/08/2001

Presidential Declaration of Caracas/Caracas,06/04/2002

Agreement on Animal Health in Areas of the TwoCountries Borders/Caracas, 07/11/1979

D.O.U.: Official Union Diary; DEC: Decree; DEC s/no: Not Numbered Decree; DLG: Legislative Decree; DEL: Decree-Law; R: Ratification

D.O.U.No 150

07/08/1995

D.O.U.No 246

19/12/1997

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Table 4.3. Regional Acts in force for Argentina in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

X

Agreement for the Establishment in apermanent character of the Latin-American Institute of Forestry Training andResearch, under the auspices of the Foodand Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations, seated at the Forestry School ofthe Andean University, at Merida,Venezuela/Roma, 18/11/1959

Inter-American Agreement of AnimalHealth/Rio de Janeiro, 18/07/1967

Treaty of the Prata River Basin/Brasília,23/04/1969

Accord for the Conservation andManagement of the Vicuña/Lima,20/12/1979

Caribbean, France, Great Britain,Latin America, the Netherlands



Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador,Peru

Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica,Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Saint Lucy,St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Vicent & theGrenadines, Suriname, Trinidad &Tobago, United States, Uruguay,Venezuela

Cooperative Program for the Agro-alimentary and Agro-industrialTechnological Development of the SouthCone (PROCISUR) represented by theNational Institutes of Farming Researchand the IICA/April 1980


18/11/1959

1980

01/10/42

20/12/197920/07/1988

14/08/197022/05/1970

18/07/1967

X X X

X X X

X

XX

Law 1859006/02/1970

Law 1928204/10/1971Law 2358220/07/1988

Agreement on the Inter-AmericanInstitute of Cooperation for Agriculture(IICA) (created by resolution of theDirector Council of the Pan-AmericanUnion in October 7th 1942, andredefined in 1979)/Washington,06/03/1979

http://www.idea.org.py/html/datos.htmla9

http://www.iica.org.ar

http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/fauna/programas/manejo/proyecto_vicuna/convenio/texto.htm

http://www.procisur.org.uy/

X X X

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Accord for the Constitution of theRegional Committee of VegetalSanity(COSAVE), as a RPPO (RegionalPlants Protection Organization) in thescope of the International PlantProtection Convention (IPPC),06/12/1951, and the FAO/Montevideo,09/03/1989

Treaty of Asunción for the Constitutionof the South Cone Common Market(MERCOSUL), between the Republic ofArgentina, the Federative Republic ofBrazil, the Republic of Paraguay and theOriental Republic of Uruguay/Asunción,26/03/1991


Regional Agreement of Scientific andTechnological Cooperation Among themember-countries of the LatinAmerican Association of Integration(Aladi)/Montevideo, 19/10/1993

Inter-regional Cooperation Agreementbetween the European Community andit’s Member-states and the Mercosuland it’s Parties-states/Madrid,15/12/1995

Agreement Constituent of theTrinational Commission for theDevelopment of the Pilcomayo RiverBasin/La Paz, Bolivia, 09/02/1995

Argentina, Brazil, Chile,Paraguay, and Uruguay


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile ,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,United States, Uruguay,Venezuela

Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile,Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay andVenezuela

Argentina, Austria, Belgium,Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France,Germany, Great Britain, Italy,Ireland, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Northern IrelandParaguay, Portugal, Spain,Sweden, and Uruguay

Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay

09/03/198901/08/2001

-1996

01/07/19991996

19/10/199319/10/1993

12/03/199424/02/1994

29/11/199115/07/1991

Law 23961 1/08/1991

Law 915/07/1991

http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=PT&numdoc=21996A0319(02)&model=guichett

http://www.cosave.orghttp://www.idea.org.py/tml/datos.html

http://infoleg.mecon.gov.ar/normas/360.htm

http://www.idea.org.py/html/datos.html

http://www.iai.int/

http://www.aladi.orghttp://infoleg.mecon.gov.ar/txtnorma/5724.htm

http://64.176.205.32/legislacion/legislacion_ambiental/leyes_ambientales/L580-95.doc

X

X X

X

X

X XX

X X X

X

X

Law 2469404/09/1996

Law 2467714/08/1996

DEC 41518/03/1991

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1998-

Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru,St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay,Venezuela

Agreement for creation of the Inter-American Network of Information inBiodiversity (IABIN), signed in thescope of Santa Cruz Summit of theAmerica Meeting of Heads of State/Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1996

http://www.iabin.net

Memorandum of Understandingbetween the American RegionalOrganisms of Phytosanitary Protectionto the Formal Constitution of the Inter-American Coordination Group onVegetal Health (GICSV)/ 23/03/1998

Argentina, Brazil, ChileParaguay,and Uruguay (COSAVE),American Regional Organizationsof Phytosanitary Protection(ORPFS ): the CaribbeanCommission for PhytosanitaryProtection (CPPC); the GeneralSecretariat of the AndeanCommunity (CA); the NorthAmerican Organization ofPhytosanitary Protection (NAPPO);and the Regional InternationalOrganism of Agriculture and CattleSanity (OIRSA)



23/03/199823/03/1998

07/09/200107/09/2001

27/06/200409/01/2004

Law 2584109/01/2004

http://infoleg.mecon.gov.ar/txtnorma/91816.htm

http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/mercosur/decisiones/decision2_01decision2_01.htm


X

X X X X X X

X X X X

Declaration of Cooperation for theSustainable Development of theGreat American Chaco/Resistencia,Argentina, 07/09/2001

X XX

DEC: Decree

Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay

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Table 4.4. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Argentina in field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Bolivia Treaty on Environment Between Argentina and Bolivia/Buenos Aires, 17/03/1994

Agreement for Conservation of the South AtlanticNatural Resources between Brazil and Argentina/Buenos Aires, 29/12/1967

Agreement of Fishing between Brazil and Argentina/Buenos Aires, 29/12/1967

Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Buenos Aires, 17/05/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Agreement ofScientific and Technological Cooperation, onCooperation in the Field of the Reforestation and theForest Law /Brasília, 15/08/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Agreement ofScientific and Technological Cooperation, onCooperation in the Field of the Cattle and FarmingResearch/Brasília, 15/08/1980

Treaty for the Exploitation of the Shared HydrologicalResources of the Bordering Stretches of the RiverUruguay and its Tributary, the River Pepiri-Guaçu/Buenos Aires, 17/05/80

Agreement on Animal Health in Border Areas/BuenosAires, 17/05/1980

Complementary Accord to the Agreement of Scientificand Technological Cooperation of 17/05/80, in theField of the Vegetal Health/Brasília, 10/10/1984

Agreement of Partial Reach of Cooperation andInterchange of Goods Used in the Defense andProtection of the Environment between Brazil andArgentina/Las Leñas, 27/06/92

19/02/97

18/08/1982

15/08/1980

15/08/1980

08/02/1983

10/10/1984

Law 24774 19/02/1997

Law 2274008/02/1983

http://infoleg.mecon.gov.ar/X X X

X X

X

X

XX

X X

X XX

X

X

X

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Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Matter/Buenos Aires, 09/04/1996

Agreement for the Creation for the Commission ofCooperation and Bordering Development/Brasília,10/11/1997

Environmental Protocol of the Border of the UruguayRiver/Porto Xavier (RS), 13/03/2002

Agreement with Argentina on Defense of BorderingForests Against Fires/Santiago, 20/12/1961

Treaty on Environment between Argentina and Chile/Buenos Aires, 02/08/1991

Specific Protocol Additional to the Treaty onEnvironment, Conservation of the Shared Wild Floraand Fauna between Chile and Argentina/Santiago,02/05/2002

Basic Agreement between the Government of theRepublic of Colombia and the Government of theArgentine Republic on Collaboration in the ScientificResearch and the Technological Development/Bogotá, 26/02/1972

Agreement on the Conservation and Development ofthe Ictical Resources in the Bordering Sections of theParaná and Paraguay Rivers/Buenos Aires,25/10/1996

Chile

Colombia

http://www.fucema.org.ar/fucema/legislacion/leyesnacionales/ley25.048.htm

http://www.direcon.cl/html/acuerdos_internacionales/mercosur_12.php

http://www.conama.cl/portal/1255/fo-article-26080.pdf

http://www.bcn.cl/imag/tratados/tratado_mp891.pdf

Brazil

X X X

X X X X X

X X

X X X

X X X X X

X

X X XParaguay

09/12/1997

1999

11/11/1998

05/10/1972

13/03/2003

13/09/1963

01/07/1992

02/05/2003

Law 2493009/12/1997

Law 2504811/11/1998

Law 1987505/10/1972

Law 2410501/07/1992

DEL 767213/09/1963

X

DEL: Decree-Law

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Table 4.5. Regional Acts in force for Bolivia in field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


Agreement Relative to the InternationalInstitute of the Amazonian Hilea/Iquitos(Peru), 10/05/1948

Agreement for the Establishment inPermanent Character of a LatinAmerican Institute of Forest Trainingand Searches, in the scope of the Foodand Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations /Roma, 18/11/1959



Amazon Cooperation Treaty/Brasília,03/07/1978

01/05/1942There is noinformation

regarding the entryin force of the

agreement in thecountry

10/05/1948

18/11/1959-

18/07/1967

14/08/197015/07/1970

02/08/198002/08/1980

American Countries

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, France, Italy,Netherlands, Peru andVenezuela

Caribbean, France, LatinAmerica, Great Britain,Netherlands




http://web.minambiente.gov.co/biogeo/menu/legislacion/legisinternacional/coop_amazonica.htm

http://www.tratadoamazonico.org


http://www.cab.int.co/cab/infos/biolegis/internacional/Biointernacional_01.htmX

X

X X X

X X X

X

X X X



(mm/dd/yy)

180

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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

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LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7


Agreement for the Conservation andManagement of the Vicuña/Lima,20/12/1979

Statement of Belem to celebrate theFirst Meeting of Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Signatory Countries ofthe Amazonian Cooperation Treaty/Belém, 24/10/1980

Cooperative Program for the Agro-alimentary and Agro-industrialTechnological Development of theSouth Cone (PROCISUR) representedby the National Institutes of FarmingResearch and the IICA/April 1980


Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Dominica, DominicanRepublic, Ecuador, El Salvador,Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Spain, Saint Lucy, St. Kittis & Nevis,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, UnitedStates, Uruguay, Venezuela


Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,Guyana, Peru, Suriname andVenezuela



Cooperative Program of Research andTechnology Transference for the SouthAmerican Tropics (PROCITROPICOS)constituted throughout a CooperationAccord celebrated between the NationalInstitutes of Cattle and FarmingResearch and the IICA /1992

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru,Suriname

01/10/42-

1992-

06/05/198906/05/1989

1980-

24/10/198024/10/1980

20/12/197921/03/1997

X

X X

X X X X

X X X X X

X X X X

DEC 2452921/03/1997

http://www.iica.int/Bolivia/

http://www.cab.int.co/cab/infos/biolegis/bolivia/Biobolivia_036.htm

http://www.iadb.org/intal/tratados/temas/tema_amazonia2.htm


http://www.agrobolivia.gov.bo

X

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Agreement Constituent of the Inter-American Institute for Researches onGlobal Changing - Montevideo Act(IAI)/Montevideo, 13/05/1992

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,United States, Uruguay,Venezuela

http://www.oas.org/main/main.asp?sLang=S&sLink=http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/tratados.html

http://www.iai.int/

12/03/199402/07/2002



Agreement for Creation of the Inter-American Network of Information inBiodiversity (IABIN), signed in thescope of Santa Cruz Summit of theAmerica Meeting of Heads of State/Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1996


Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay

Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay


19/10/1993Not in force

14/09/200414/09/2004

07/09/200107/09/2001

1998-

-



http://64.176.205.32/legislacionlegislacion_ambiental/leyes_ambientales/L580-95.doc

http://www.aladi.org

X X X X X

X X X X

X X X

X X X

X

X

Declaration of Cooperation for theSustainable Development of the GreatAmerican Chaco/Resistencia,Argentina, 07/09/2001

Declaration of Manaus to celebrate theVIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-members ofhe Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus,14/09/2004

DEC: Decree

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Table 4.6. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Bolivia in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Treaty on Environment Between Argentina and Bolivia/Buenos Aires, 17/03/1994

Basic agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation/La Paz, 10/07/1973

Accord of Animal Health in Border Areas/Brasília,17/08/1977

Accord for the Preservation, Conservation andMonitoring of the Natural Resources in the BorderingAreas/Brasília, 15/08/1990

Agreement, through Note exchange, Relative to theAccord between the INPE and the SENAMHI/La Paz,23/02/1996

Memorandum of Understanding for the Establishmentof a Subprogram of Technical Cooperation inSustainable Development and Thematic InformationTransference/Brasília, 17/06/1997

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical, Scientific and Technological Cooperation forthe Implementation of the Project of Wild FaunaManagement/Brasília, 18/11/2003

Agreement of Technical, Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation between Colombia and Bolivia/Santa Féde Bogotá, 10/11/1998

Agreement in the Matter of Natural Resources andEnvironment Subscribed between Paraguay andBolivia/Asunción, 15/03/1994

Memorandum of Understanding for the Elaboration ofthe Action Plan for Transboundary Management of theProtected Areas of Paraguay and of Bolivia/Asunción,12/03/2002

http://www.paraguaygobierno.gov.py/leyes1995.html

05/03/1979

X X X

X

X

X X X X X

X

X

X X

X

X X X X

Paraguay

Colombia

Brazil

Argentina

12/03/2002

23/02/1996

18/11/2003

17/06/1997

30/09/1998

X X X

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Table 4.7. Regional Acts in force for Chile in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


Agreement for the Establishment inpermanent character of a Latin AmericanInstitute of Forestry Training andSearches, in the scope of the Food andAgriculture Organization of the UnitedNations /Roma, 18/11/1959


Agreement on the Inter-AmericanInstitute of Cooperation for Agriculture(IICA) (created by resolution of theDirector Council of the Pan-AmericanUnion in October 7th 1942, and redefinedin 1979)/Washington, 06/03/1979



American Countries01/05/194210/10/1967

01/10/1942-

18/07/1967-

X

X X X

X

X

X X

DEC 5311967

D.O.U.4/10/67

DEC 21205/03/1981

DEC 889 ofthe Ministry ofForeign Affairs

http://www.conama.cl/portal/1255/article-26045.html

http://www.iica.inthttp://www.iica.cl

http://www.bcn.cl/portada.html


X XX





Caribbean, France, Great Britain,Latin America, the Netherlands,

18/11/1959-

1980-

20/12/197901/12/1980

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http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/convenioparalaprotecciondelmediomarinoycostero.html

Convention for the Protection of theMarine Environment and Coastal Zoneof the Southeast Pacific/Lima,12/11/1981

Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,Panama and Peru

20/05/1986-

X X

Protocol for the Conservation andAdministration of the Marine andCoastal Areas of the SoutheastPacific/Paipa, Colombia, 21/09/1989

Accord for the Constitution of the RegionalCommittee of Vegetal Sanity(COSAVE),as a RPPO (Regional Plants ProtectionOrganization) in the scope of theInternational Plant Protection Convention(IPPC), 06/12/1951, and the FAO/Montevideo, 09/03/1989




Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamaand Peru


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador,United Status of America, Mexico,Panama, Paraguay, Peru, DominicanRepublic, Uruguay, Venezuela




http://www cosave.org


http://www.iai.int/



DEC 545 30/05/1990

DEC 68001/06/1995

DEC 16861994

X

X XX


http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/conservacionyadministraciondelasareasmarinasycosteras.html

XXX

X

X X

X X

X

08/10/199108/10/1991

1998-

19/10/199301/06/1995

12/03/199414/11/1994

09/03/198930/05/1990

Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

185

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7


Memorandum of Understandingbetween the American RegionalOrganisms of Phytosanitary Protectionto the Formal Constitution of the Inter-American Coordination Group onVegetal Health (GICSV)/ 23/03/1998

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay,and Uruguay (COSAVE), AmericanRegional Organizations ofPhytosanitary Protection (ORPFS ):the Caribbean Commission forPhytosanitary Protection (CPPC);the General Secretariat of theAndean Community (CA); the NorthAmerican Organization ofPhytosanitary Protection (NAPPO);and the Regional InternationalOrganism of Agriculture and CattleSanity (OIRSA)

23/03/199823/03/1998

X

D.O.U.: Official Union Diary; DEC: Decree.

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Table 4.8. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Chile in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Argentina

Agreement with Argentina on Defense of BorderingForests Against Fires/Santiago, 20/12/1961

Treaty on Environment between Argentina and Chile/Buenos Aires, 02/08/1991

Specific Protocol Additional to the Treaty onEnvironment, Conservation of the Shared Wild Floraand Fauna between Chile and Argentina/Santiago,02/05/2002

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation, in the ForestField, of July 19th 1974/Santiago, 10/10/1980

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation, in the Field of theFarming and Cattle Health, of July 19th 1974/Santiago,10/10/1980

Basic Agreement of Scientific, Technical andTechnological Cooperation/Brasília, 26/07/1990

Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation for theExecution of Studies and Actions of Common Interest inthe Area of Agriculture/Brasília, 25/03/1996

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific, Technical and Technological Cooperation inthe Matter of Farming Health/Brasília, 25/03/1996

Complementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation in the Forest Field, between theGovernments of the Republic of Chile and the Republicof Ecuador/Santiago, 28/03/1985

http://www.bcn.cl/imag/tratados/tratado_mp891.pdf

1967

16/01/92

02/05/2002

13/10/80

DEC 25405/04/1967

28/03/1985

21/05/98

08/04/96

DEC 29303/04/1985

DEC 7381998

DEC 4611996







http://www.direcon.cl/html/acuerdos_internacionales/mercosur_12.php

http://www.conama.cl/portal/1255/fo-article-26080.pdf

Ecuador

Brazil

X X

X XX

X XX X X

X

X

X

X X

X

X

DEC 154821/12/1993

DEC 9081980

DEC 9061980

DEC 12907/05/2002

DEC: Decree

DEC 6716/01/1992

28/09/1992

13/10/80

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X

Table 4.9. Regional Acts in force for Colombia in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to thecomponents of the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4)Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing;6) Education, Public Awareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Agreement Relative to the InternationalInstitute of the Amazonian Hilea /Iquitos(Peru), 10/05/1948

Agreement for the Establishment inpermanent character of a LatinAmerican Institute of Forest Trainingand Searches, in the scope of the Foodand Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations/Roma, 18/11/1959

Agreement between Governments andOrganizations for the creation of aConsultative Group on InternationalAgricultural Research (CGIAR)/Washington, 17/05/1971


Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,France, Italy, Netherlands, Peru andVenezuela

Caribbean, France, Great Britain,Latin America, Netherlands

Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Denmark,Egypt, Finland, France, Germany,Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran,Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,Holland, New Zealand, Nigeria,Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines,Portugal, South Africa, Romania,Russian Federation, Spain,Switzerland, Sweden, Syria,Thailand, Uganda, and UnitedStates

Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,Guyana, Peru, Suriname andVenezuela

http://web.minambiente.gov.co/biogeo/menu/legislacion/legisinternacional/coop_amazonica.htmhttp://juriscol.banrep.gov.co

http://www.cgiar.org

10/05/1948-

02/08/198002/08/1980

Law 741979

X X X

X X X

X X X

18/11/1959-

17/05/19711994

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

X

Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Dominica, DominicanRepublic, Ecuador, El Salvador,Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Spain, Saint Lucy, St. Kittis & Nevis,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Agreement on the Inter-AmericanInstitute of Cooperation for Agriculture(IICA) (created by resolution of theDirector Council of the Pan-AmericanUnion in October 7th 1942, andredefined in 1979)/Washington, 06/03/1979

http://www.iica.int/colombia

01/10/42-

Statement of Belém to celebrate theFirst Meeting of Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Signatory Countries ofthe Amazonian Cooperation Treaty/Belém, 24/10/1980


Convention for the Protection andDevelopment of the MarineEnvironment in the Wider CaribbeanRegion/Cartagena, Colombia,24/03/1983

Protocol for the Conservation andAdministration of the Marine andCoastal Areas of the Southeast Pacific/Paipa, Colombia, 21/09/1989



Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica,Cuba, Dominica, DominicanRepublic, European UnionGrenada, Guatemala, Honduras,Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama,Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and theGrenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,United Kingdom, United States ofAmerica, Venezuela,


24/10/198024/10/1980

20/05/1986-


http://www.cpps-int.org/espaconvenioparalaprotecciondelmediomarinoycostero.html

http://www.cep.unep.org/law/cartnut.php#spaw

11/10/1986-

08/10/1991 http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/conservacionyadministraciondelasareasmarinasycosteras.html

X X X X

X X X

X X

X X X X X

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06/05/198906/05/1989

http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/tratados/c-19.htmlhttp://www.secretariasenado.gov.co/leyes/l034_96.htm http://www.iai.int/


Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Colombia, Cuba, France,Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico,Netherlands, Saint Lucia, Trinidadand Tobago, United Kingdom,United States of America,Republic of Venezuela

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Ecuador, United Status of America,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Dominican Republic, Uruguay,Venezuela



Protocol Concerning SpeciallyProtected Areas and Wildlife to theConvention for the Protection andDevelopment of the MarineEnvironment of the Wider CaribbeanRegion/Kingston, 18/01/1990


Cooperative Program of Research andTechnology Transference for the SouthAmerican Tropics (PROCITROPICOS)constituted throughout a CooperationAccord celebrated between theNational Institutes of Cattle andFarming Research and the IICA/1992

X

http://www.corpoica.org.co


1992-

12/03/199419/03/1997

X X X X

XX

X X

X X X X X

Law 30405/08/1996

Regional Agreement of Scientific andTechnological Cooperation Amongthe member-countries of the LatinAmerican Association of Integration(Aladi)/Montevideo, 19/10/1993


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay andVenezuela X


18/06/2000-

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7


Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica,Dominica, Dominican Republic,Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada,Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,Panama, Paraguay, Peru,St.Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy, SaintVicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay,Venezuela

Declaration of Manaus to celebrate theVIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-members ofhe Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus, 14/09/2004

Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia,Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,Suriname and Venezuela

14/09/200414/09/2004


1998-


X X X X X

X XX

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Table 4.10. Bilateral Acts in force for Colombia in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Argentina

Basic Agreement between the Government of theRepublic of Colombia and the Government of theArgentine Republic on Collaboration in the ScientificResearch and the Technological Development/Bogotá/26/02/1972

Agreement of Technical, Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation between Colombia and Bolivia/Santa Féde Bogotá, 10/11/1998

Agreement for the Conservation of the Flora and theFauna of the Amazonian Territories/Bogotá,20/06/1973

06/11/1980

23/11/2002

17/07/1976

http://juriscol.banrep.gov.co:8080/cgi/titulos_buscar.cgi?A

Brazil

Bolivia

28/01/1997

18/05/1994

02/09/1981

27/02/1986

10/04/1986

05/03/1986








Law 391982

DEC 103404/06/1987

Law 2806/11/1980

Law 63127/12/2000DEC 305912/12/2002

Law 523/01/1976

Law 1061985

DEC 103404/06/1987

Law 24026/12/1995

Law 5109/06/1993

Law 271986

DEC 103404/06/1987

X

X

X X X

X X

X

X X X X

X

X

X

Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Bogotá,12/03/1981

Complementary Accord to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation, on Technical, Scientific andTechnological Cooperation in the Field of the BasicSanitation and Protection of the Environment/Brasília,02/09/1981

Complementary Accord to the Basic Agreement of TechnicalCooperation, on Technical, Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation in Farming Subjects/ 02/09/1981

Accord between the Republic of Colombia and theFederative Republic of Brazil, on Animal Health inBordering Areas/Bogotá, 16/07/1985

Agreement on Animal Health for the Interchange ofAnimals and Products of Animal Origin/Bogotá,09/02/1988

Agreement of Amazonian Cooperation between theGovernment of the Federative Republic of Brazil and theGovernment of the Republic of Colombia/Bogotá, 12/03/1981

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EcuadorAmazon Cooperation Agreement between theRepublics of Colombia and Ecuador/Quito, 02/03/1979

Amazon Cooperation Agreement between theCooperative Republic of Guyana and the Republic ofColombia/Quito, 02/03/1979

Agreement of Economic, Scientific and TechnicalCooperation between the Government of theCooperative Republic of Guyana and the Government ofthe Republic of Colombia/Bogotá, 03/05/1982

Agreement of Technical and Scientific Cooperation forthe Development Between the Republic of Colombiaand the Republic of Paraguay/Bogotá, 15/11/1980

Basic Agreement of Technical and ScientificCooperation between the Peruvian Republic and theRepublic of Colombia/Lima, 30/03/1979

Agreement Between Peru and Colombia for theConservation of the Amazonian Flora and Fauna/Lima,30/03/1979

Amazon Cooperation Treaty between the Republic ofColombia and the Republic of Peru/Lima, 30/03/1979

06/11/1980 Law 2906/11/1980








Venezuela

Peru

Paraguay

Guyana

X X

X XLaw 611983

DEC 76826/04/1988

Law 5928/12/1983DEC 768

26/04/1988

Law 61983

DEC 103404/06/1987

Law 2418/09/1980

Law 3006/11/1980

Law 201981

DEC 76826/04/1988

X

X

X

X X

X X

XMemorandum Resultant of the Meeting of theMinisters for the Environment of Colombia and ofVenezuela/Nov/2002

DEC: Decree

Nov/2002

26/08/1987

06/11/1980

18/09/1980

09/04/1986

13/07/1987

13/07/1987

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X

X X X

Table 4.11. Regional Acts in force for Ecuador in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


Agreement Relative to the InternationalInstitute of the Amazonian Hilea /Iquitos(Peru), 10/05/1948

Agreement for the Establishment inpermanent character of a LatinAmerican Institute of Forestry Trainingand Researches, in the scope of theFood and Agriculture Organization ofthe United Nations/Roma, 18/11/1959



01/05/1942-

American Countries

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,France, Italy, the Netherlands, Peruand Venezuela

Caribbean, France, Great BritainLatin America, Netherlands

20/12/1979-

01/10/1942-

02/08/198002/08/1980

18/11/1959-

10/05/1948-


X

X X X

X

X XArgentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador,Peru




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Cooperative Program of Research andTechnology Transference for the SouthAmerican Tropics (PROCITROPICOS)constituted throughout a CooperationAccord celebrated between the NationalInstitutes of Cattle and FarmingResearch and the IICA /1992


24/10/198024/10/1980





Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,Venezuela, Peru, Suriname



1992-

12/03/199424/11/1997

06/05/198906/05/1989

08/10/199108/10/1991

20/05/198626/12/1983



http://www.iniap-ecuador.gov.ec/

http://www.ecorae.org


http://www.iai.int/

http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/conservacionyadministraciondelasareasmarinasycosteras.html

http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/convenioparalaprotecciondelmediomarinoycostero.html

X X X X

X X X

X X X X X

X X X X X

X X

X X X X X

X



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(mm/dd/yy)

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Nº/Date


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Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru,St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay, Venezuela


1998-


X X X

Declaration of Manaus to celebratethe VIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-membersof he Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus,14/09/2004

14/09/200414/09/2004



X X X X X

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Table 4.12. Bilateral Acts in force for Ecuador in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes. (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil


Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation of 09/02/1982, forImplementation of the Project of Conservation andSustainable Development in the Sangay National Park/Quito, 08/10/1999

Complementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation in the Forest Field, between theGovernments of the Republic of Chile and the Republicof Ecuador/Santiago, 28/03/1985

Amazon Cooperation Agreement between theRepublics of Colombia and Ecuador/Quito, 02/03/1979

Agreement Complementary to the Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation on Agricultural, Cattle andFishing between the Republic of Paraguay and theRepublic of Ecuador, on Animal Health and AnimalCommerce, Genetic Material, Products and Sub-Products of Animal Origin and Material of Cattle Use/Quito, 18/06/ 2001

04/01/1985

08/10/1999


X

X X X X X

X

X X

X XParaguay

Colombia

Chile

06/11/1980

28/03/1985

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Table 4.13. Regional Acts in force for Guyana in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Agreement for Creation of theCaribbean Plant ProtectionCommission as a RPPO (RegionalPlant Protection Organization) in theambit of the International PlantProtection Convention (IPPC), of06/12/1951, and of the FAO/1967



1967-

Barbados, Cuba, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Grenada,Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kittsand Nevis, Saint Lucia,Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,Venezuela



http://www.ippc.int/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND0xMzQ3MCY3PWVuJjYxPSomNjU9a29z


06/05/198906/05/1989

24/10/198024/10/1980

01/10/1942-

02/08/198002/08/1980


http://www.iica.int/Guyana/

X X X

X X X

X

X X X X

X X X X X

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinameand Venezuela

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinameand Venezuela



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Declaration of Manaus to celebratethe VIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-membersof the Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus,14/09/2004

1998-

Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru,St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States, Uruguay,Venezuela




14/09/200414/09/2004

X XX

XX XX X

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Table 4.14. Bilateral Acts in force for Guyana in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil

Agreement on Amazonian Cooperation between theGovernment of the Federative Republic of Brazil andthe Government of the Cooperative Republic ofGuyana/Brasília, 05/10/1982

Basic Agreement on Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Georgetown, 29/01/1982

Amazon Cooperation Agreement between theCooperative Republic of Guyana and the Republic ofColombia/Quito, 02/03/1979

Agreement of Economic, Scientific and TechnicalCooperation between the Government of theCooperative Republic of Guyana and the Governmentof the Republic of Colombia/Bogotá, 03/05/1982

X X X

X

X X

X

08/04/1986

13/07/1987

13/07/1987

Colombia

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Table 4.15. Regional Acts in force for French Guyana/France in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related tothe components of the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) BiodiversityMonitoring, Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


10/05/1948-

18/11/1959-

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,Ecuador, France, Italy, theNetherlands, Peru and Venezuela

11/10/1986-

19/05/1971-

Law 85-675 06/07/1985

DEC 87-12519/02/1987


http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASIS/pacte/webext/multinde/sf


www.cgiar.org

X

X X X

X X X

X X

Convention for the Protection andDevelopment of the MarineEnvironment in the WiderCaribbean Region/Cartagena,Colombia, 24/03/1983

Agreement between Governments andOrganizations for the Creation of aConsultative Group on InternationalAgricultural Research (CGIAR)/Washington, 19/05/1971

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominica, Dominican Republic,Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras,Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama,Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and theGrenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,United Kingdom, United States ofAmerica, Venezuela, European Union

Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Denmark,Egypt, Finland, France, Germany,Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran,Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,Holland, New Zealand, Nigeria,Norway, Pakistan, Peru,Philippines, Portugal, South Africa,Romania, Russian Federation,Spain, Swiss, Sweden, Syria,Thailand, Uganda, and USA.

Agreement for the Establishment in apermanent character of the Latin-American Institute of Forestry Trainingand Research, under the auspices ofthe Food and Agriculture Organization ofthe United Nations, seated at theForestry School of the Andean University,at Mérida, Venezuela/Roma, 18/11/1959

Caribbean, France, Latin America,the Netherlands, United Kingdom

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Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Colombia, Cuba, France,Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico,Netherlands, Saint Lucia,Trinidad and Tobago, UnitedKingdom, United States ofAmerica, Republic of Venezuela


18/06/200005/05/2002

Law 2002-16413/02/2002

DEC 2002-96904/07/2002

http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASIS/pacte/webext/multinde/sf


Inter-regional CooperationAgreement between the EuropeanCommunity and it’s Member-statesand the Mercosul and it’s Parties-states/Madrid, 15/12/1995

01/07/1999

-

Argentina, Austria, Belgium,Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France,Germany, Great Britain, Italy,Ireland, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Northern IrelandParaguay, Portugal, Spain,Sweden, and Uruguay

DEC 99-80910/09/1999

http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASIS/pacte/webext/multinde/sfXX X X

X X

DEC: Decree

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Table 4.16. Bilateral Acts in force for French Guyana/French in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to thecomponents of the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) BiodiversityMonitoring, Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil

03/08/1968

01/04/1997

DECn°69-392

24/04/1969


http://wwwt.senado.gov.br/legbras/http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASIS/pacte/webext/bilat/sf

http://www.dct.mre.gov.br/comistafranca2000PORT.htm

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/francprioritarias.htm

http://www2.mre.gov.br/dai/francdeclara%E7%E3o.htm

http://www.ambafrance.org.br/abr/atualidades/cooperacao6.htm

http://www.doc.diplomatie.fr/BASIS/epic/www/doc/SF

Technical and Scientific Cooperation Agreement/Paris,16/01/1967

Cooperation Framework-Agreement/Paris,28/05/1996

II Meeting of the Work Group on Scientific andTechnical Cooperation, in the ambit of the GeneralCommission Brazil-French and the Agreement onTechnical and Scientific Cooperation, of January 16th

1967 /Brasília, 17th to19th April 2000

Memorandum of Understanding on Scientific andTechnological Cooperation in Priority Areas/Brasília,05/04/2001

Joint Statement in the Ambit of the Fight AgainstCatastrophes, of Natural and Technological Origin,and in Particular Against Bush Fires/Brasília, 5/04/2001

Statement on Cooperation for BiodiversityPreservation and Sustainable Development inAmapá and in French Guyana , signed during the IIIMeeting for Cross-Bounder Cooperation Brazil-French/Macapá, 28th to 30th January 2002

III Meeting of the Work Group on Scientific andTechnical Cooperation , in the ambit of the GeneralComission Brazil-French and the Agreement onTechnical and Scientific Cooperation, of January 16th

1967 /Paris, 8th July 2003

Final Minutes

Final Minutes

DECn°97-764

15/07/1997

X

X X X

X X X

X

X

X X X X

X X X X X

Final Minutes

08/07/2003

30/01/2002

5/04/2001

05/04/2001

19/04/2000

DEC: Decree

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X

Table 4.17. Regional Acts in force for Paraguay in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


Agreement for the Establishment inpermanent character of a LatinAmerican Institute of Forest Trainingand Searches, in the scope of the Foodand Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations /Roma, 18/11/1959

Inter-American Agreement on AnimalHealth/Rio de Janeiro, 18/07/1967


01/05/194230/04/1981

American Countries

Cooperative Program for the Agro-alimentary and Technological Agro-industrial Development of the SouthCone (PROCISUR) represented by theNational Institutes of FarmingResearch and the IICA/April 1980

Law 75813/09/1979



http://www.mre.gov.py/Tratados/INDICE%20-B-%20OEA%20WEB.htm#18

www.iica.gov.by


X X X

X

X X X

X

Law 78313/12/1979

Law 17719/12/1969



1980-

01/10/194212/05/1980

14/08/197016/12/1969

18/11/1959-

18/07/1967-


Caribbean, France, Great Britain,Latin America, the Netherlands

X X X

Agreement on the Inter-AmericanInstitute of Cooperation for Agriculture(IICA) (created by resolution of theDirector Council of the Pan-AmericanUnion on October 7th 1942, andredefined in 1979)/Washington,06/03/1979

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguayand Uruguay

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Accord for the Constitution of theRegional Committee of VegetalSanity(COSAVE), as a RPPO(Regional Plants ProtectionOrganization) in the scope of theInternational Plant ProtectionConvention (IPPC), 06/12/1951, andthe FAO/Montevideo, 09/03/1989

Treaty of Asunción for the Constitutionof the South Cone Common Market(MERCOSUL), between the Republicof Argentina, the Federative Republicof Brazil, the Republic of Paraguayand the Oriental Republic of Uruguay/Asunción, 26/03/1991



Inter-regional Cooperation Agreementbetween the European Communityand its Member-states and theMercosul and its Parties-states/Madrid, 15/12/1995

03/09/198919/07/1990

Argentina, Brazil , Chile, Paraguayand Uruguay


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,United States, United StatesMexicanos, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela


Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,Denmark, Finland, France,Germany, Great Britain, Italy,Ireland, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Northern IrelandParaguay, Portugal, Spain,Sweden, and Uruguay

DEC 16109/08/90Law 21

19/07/1990

http://www.cosave.org

www.idea.org.py/html/datos.html

09/05/1995-

01/07/199912/08/1999


12/03/199408/10/1996

29/11/199115/07/1991

http://64.176.205.32/legislacion/l eg i s l ac i on_amb ien ta l /leyes_ambientales/L580-95.doc

http://www.mre.gov.py/Tratados/Cuadros%20MERCOSUR/MERCOSUR.htm



http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/tratados/c-19.html

http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/mercosur/decisiones/decision2_01/decision2_01.htmhttp://www.idea.org.py/html/datos.html

Law 58029/05/1995

Law 97626/09/1996

DEC 12Ago/99


X X

X X

X

X X X X

X X XArgentina, Bolivia, Paraguay

Law 91807/08/1996

Law 915/07/1991

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Memorandum of Understandingbetween the American RegionalOrganisms of PhytosanitaryProtection to the Formal Constitutionof the Inter-American CoordinationGroup on Vegetal Health (GICSV)/23/03/1998


Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Grenada, Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, St. Kittis & Nevis, Saint Lucy,Saint Vicent & the Grenadines,Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,United States of America,Uruguay, Venezuela

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguayand Uruguay (COSAVE), AmericanRegional Organizations ofPhytosanitary Protection (ORPFS):the Caribbean Commission forPhytosanitary Protection (CPPC);the General Secretariat of theAndean Community (CA); theNorth American Organization ofPhytosanitary Protection (NAPPO);and the Regional InternationalOrganism of Agriculture andCattle Sanity (OIRSA)


1998-



http://www.mre.gov.py/dependencias/tratados/Cuadro%20Bilateral/medio%20ambiente.htm

07/09/200107/09/2001

27/06/2004In process of

ratification

23/03/199823/03/1998

X X X

X X X X X X

X X X X

X

Law 206807/01/2003

DEC: Decree

Argentina, Bolivia and ParaguayDeclaration of Cooperation for theSustainable Development of the GreatAmerican Chaco/Resistencia,Argentina, 07/09/2001

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ArgentinaAgreement on the Conservation and Development ofthe Fishing Resources in the Bordering Sections ofthe Paraná and Paraguay Rivers/Buenos Aires,25/10/1996

Agreement in the Matter of Natural Resources andEnvironment Subscribed between Paraguay andBolivia/Asunción, 15/03/1994

Memorandum of Understanding for the Elaboration ofthe Action Plan for Transboundary Management of theProtected Areas of Paraguay and of Bolivia/Asunción.12/03/2002

Agreement for the Conservation of the Aquatic Faunain the Courses of the Bordering Rivers of Paraguayand Brazil - Apa River/Brasília, 01/09/1994

Agreement on Cooperation for the Combat to the IllicitTimber Traffic between Paraguay and Brazil/Brasília,01/09/1994

Extension of the Agreement for the Conservation of theAquatic Fauna in the Courses of the Bordering rivers ofParaguay and Brazil - Apa River, on the Creation ofNew Sustainable Uses in the Bordering Rivers/Brasília, 19/05/1999

Agreement of Technical and Scientific Cooperation forthe Development Between the Republic of Colombiaand the Republic of Paraguay/Bogotá, 15/11/1980

Agreement Complementary to the Agreement ofTechnical Cooperation on Agricultural, Cattle and Fishingbetween the Republic of Paraguay and the Republic ofEcuador, on Animal Health and Animal Commerce,Genetic Material, Products and Sub-Products of AnimalOrigin and Material of Cattle Use/Quito, 18/06/ 2001

24/03/1999 Law 107407/07/1997


Ecuador

Colombia

Brazil

Bolivia

27/12/2001

02/05/2002

29/04/1996

06/12/1995

12/03/2002

08/12/1995

http://64.176.205.32/legislacion/legislacion_ambiental/convenios_bilaterales/L1850-01.zip

http://www.mre.gov.py/dependencias/tratados/Cuadro%20Bilateral/medio%20ambiente.htm

http://www.leyes.com.py/todas_disposiciones/1995/leyes/ley_751_95.html


http://www.paraguaygobierno.gov.py/leyes1995.html

Law 185027/12/2001

Law 157224/07/2000

Law 75114/11/1995

Law 55528/04/1995

Law 61430/06/1995

X X

X X X X

X

X X X

X X

X

X

X

Table 4.18. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Paraguay in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

X X X

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Table 4.19. Regional Acts in force for Peru in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation)..




Agreement between Governments andOrganizations for the Creation of aConsultative Group on InternationalAgricultural Research (CGIAR)/Washington, 19/05/1971


01/05/194222/11/1946

American Countries R.S. No 98331/12/1941


DL No 22.66027/08/1979

http://www.iadb.org/intal/tratados/amazonia1.htm

http://www.cgiar.org

X

X X X

X X X

X X X02/08/198002/08/1980

19/05/19711997

18/11/1959-

10/05/1948-

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,France, Italy, the Netherlands, Peruand Venezuela

Caribbean, France, Great BritainLatin America the Netherlands,

Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Denmark,Egypt, Finland, France, Germany,India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland,Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea,Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,Holland, New Zealand, Nigeria,Norway, Pakistan, Peru,Philippines, Portugal, South Africa,Romania, Russian Federation,Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Syria,Thailand, Uganda, Great Britainand USA.


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Statement of Manaus to Celebrate theFirst Meeting of Amazonian Countries’Presidents/Manaus, 06/05/1989


01/10/1942In force


http://www.iicacrea.org.pe/

http://www.cpps-int.org/espaconservacionyadministraciondelasareasmarinasycosteras.html

http://www.cpps-int.org/espaconvenioparalaprotecciondelmediomarinoycostero.html


08/10/199108/10/1991

06/05/198906/05/1989

20/05/1986-

24/10/198024/10/1980

20/12/197919/03/1982

DL No 22.98415/04/1980

X

X X

X X X X

X X X

X X X X X

X X X X X






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Cooperative Program of Research andTechnology Transference for the SouthAmerican Tropics (PROCITROPICOS)constituted throughout a CooperationAccord celebrated between theNational Institutes of Cattle andFarming Research and the IICA /1992


Inter-American Convention for theProtection and Conservation of theMarine Turtles/Caracas, 01/12/1996


12/03/199417/02/1995

1992-

19/10/199330/01/1995

02/05/200118/09/1999

1998In force

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile ,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Ecuador, United Status of America,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Dominican Republic, Uruguay,Venezuela



Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,Peru, United States, Venezuela,


http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/tratados/c-19.html

http://www.iai.int/

RL 2637729/10/1994

DEC 04-95-ITINCI 30/01/1995

R.L. Nº 2717410/09/1999


http://www.sinac.go.cr


X X

X X X X X

X X

X X X

http://www.inia.gob.pe

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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,Guyana, Peru, Surinam andVenezuela

Declaration of Manaus to celebrate theVIII Meeting of the Foreign AffairsMinisters of the Countries-members ofhe Amazon Cooperation TreatyOrganization (ACTO)/Manaus,14/09/2004

14/09/200414/09/2004

-

X X X X X

R.L: Legislative Resolution, emitted by the Congress of the Republic of PeruDEC: Decree

R.S: Supreme ResolutionD.L: Legislative Decree emitted by the Congress of the Republic of Peru

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Table 4.20. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Peru in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil

Agreement for the Conservation of the Flora and the Faunaof the Amazonian Territories of the Federative Republic ofBrazil and the Republic of Peru/Lima, 07/11/1975


Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation in the Area ofAgriculture/Lima, 21/07/1999

Complementary Adjustment in the Area of AmazonianEnvironment, to the Basic Agreement of Scientific andTechnical Cooperation between the Government of theFederative Republic of Brazil and the Government ofPeru/Lima, 06/12/1999

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation forImplementation of the Project of Control of Wild Anger/Lima, 24/06/2003

Memorandum of Understanding between theGovernments of the Republic of Peru and the FederativeRepublic of Brazil on Cooperation in Matter of Monitoringand Protection of the Amazon/Lima, 25/08/2003

Protocol for Implementation of a System of Preventionand Control of Bush Fires/Lima, 25/08/2003

Basic Agreement of Technical and ScientificCooperation between the Peruvian Republic and theRepublic of Colombia/Lima, 30/03/1979

Agreement Between Peru and Colombia for theConservation of the Amazonian Flora and Fauna/Lima,30/03/1979

05/11/1976

21/07/1999

06/12/1999

25/08/2003

25/08/2003

http://www.rree.gob.pe/portal/enlaces.nsf/0/db1e3965b63554d005256d8d0074abf1?OpenDocument

Colombia

X X

X X

X

X X X

X X

X X

X X X

X

X X

X

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Amazon Cooperation Treaty between Colombia and Peru/Lima, 30/03/1979

X X

Colombia

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Table 4.21. Regional Acts in force for Suriname in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, PublicAwareness, Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).


Agreement for Creation of theCaribbean Plant ProtectionCommission as a RPPO (RegionalPlant Protection Organization) in theambit of the International PlantProtection Convention (IPPC), of06/12/1951, and of the FAO/1967





01/05/1942-

1967-

American Countries

Barbados, Cuba, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Grenada,Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts andNevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela



http://international.fws.gov/whp/whpconv.html


http://www.iica.int/Suriname/


06/05/198906/05/1989

24/10/198024/10/1980

01/10/1942-

02/08/198002/08/1980

X

X X X

X X X

X

X X X X

X X X X X



Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7



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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

X

Cooperative Program of Researchand Technology Transference for theSouth American Tropics(PROCITROPICOS) constitutedthroughout a Cooperation Accordcelebrated between the NationalInstitutes of Cattle and FarmingResearch and the IICA /1992

1992-


http://www.otca.org.br/ep/noticianoticia.php?idNoticia=62

14/09/200414/09/2004

1998-


X X X X

X X X X X

X X X





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Web Site


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LegalDocuments

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

X

Table 4.22. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Suriname in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation/Brasília, 22/06/1976

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4Table 4.23. Regional Acts in force for Uruguay in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas and their correlated legislation. The acts were related to the componentsof the National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).



Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7


Inter-American Agreement on AnimalHealth/Rio de Janeiro, 18/07/1967



18/11/1959-

Caribbean, France, Great BritainLatin America, Netherlands

Resolution of theMiniter of ForeignAffairs based in

the Law 13805 of04/12/69

http://www.cosave.org



http://www.iica.org.uy


09/03/198919/07/1990

01/10/1942-

14/08/197025/05/1970

18/07/1967-

X X X

X X X

X

X

X

X X X

Accord for the Constitution of theRegional Committee of Vegetal Sanity(COSAVE), as a RPPO (Regional PlantsProtection Organization) in the scopeof the International Plant ProtectionConvention (IPPC), 06/12/1951, and theFAO/Montevideo, 09/03/1989


1980-


Argentina, Brazil, Chile Paraguay,and Uruguay



Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguayand Uruguay

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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Treaty of Asunción for the Constitutionof the South Cone Common Market(MERCOSUL), between the Republicof Argentina, the Federative Republic ofBrazil, the Republic of Paraguay andthe Oriental Republic of Uruguay/Asunción, 26/03/1991



Inter-regional Cooperation Agreementbetween the European Communityand its Member-states and theMercosul and its Parties-states/Madrid, 15/12/1995


29/11/199115/07/1991


Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,United States of America,Uruguay, Venezuela


Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,Denmark, Finland, France,Germany, Great Britain, Italy,Ireland, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Northern IrelandParaguay, Portugal, Spain,Sweden, and Uruguay

1998-

01/07/1999-

19/10/199319/10/1993

12/03/199417/02/1995

DEC 66327/11/1985




http://www.iai.int/


X X

X

X

X X X X

XXX

X


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(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay,and Uruguay (COSAVE), AmericanRegional Organizations ofPhytosanitary Protection (ORPFS):the Caribbean Commission forPhytosanitary Protection (CPPC);the General Secretariat of theAndean Community (CA); theNorth American Organization ofPhytosanitary Protection (NAPPO);and the Regional InternationalOrganism of Agriculture and CattleSanity (OIRSA)

Memorandum of Understandingbetween the American RegionalOrganisms of PhytosanitaryProtection to the Formal Constitutionof the Inter-American CoordinationGroup on Vegetal Health (GICSV)/23/03/1998

23/03/199823/03/1998


http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/mercosur/decisiones/decision2_01/decision2_01.htm

X

27/06/2004In process of

ratification X X X X X X



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Table 4.24. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Uruguay in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components of theNational Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring, Assessment,and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness, Informationand Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil

Agreement of Fishing and Preservation of AliveResources, between Brazil and Uruguay/Montevideo,12/12/68

Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnologicalCooperation/Rivera, 12/06/1975

Adjustment Relative to Animal Health, Complementaryto the Basic Agreement of Scientific and TechnicalCooperation/ 27/01/1978

Zoo-sanitary Agreement for Interchange of Animalsand Products of Animal Origin/Montevideo, 14/08/1985

Complementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement ofScientific and Technical Cooperation, on Cooperationon Farming Research Field/Brasília, 13/08/1986

Joint Declaration on Environment/Brasília, 16/09/1991

Agreement of Cooperation between the Government ofBrazil and the Government of Uruguay for the Use ofthe Natural Resources and the Development of theQuarai River Basin/Artigas, 11/03/91

Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Matter/Montevidéu, 28/12/1992

27/01/1978

16/09/1991

X X

X X

X

X

X X X

X X X X

X X X

X X X

13/08/1986

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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

X

X

X


Agreement Relative to theInternational Institute of theAmazonian Hilea/Iquitos (Peru),10/05/1948


Agreement on the Inter-AmericanInstitute of Cooperation for Agriculture(IICA) (created by resolution of theDirector Council of the Pan-AmericanUnion on October 7th 1942, andredefined in 1979)/Washington,06/03/1979

01/05/1942-

American Countries -


http://www.iica.int.ve/OVzla.htm

http://web.minambiente.gov.co/biogeo/menu/legislacionlegisinternacional/coop_amazonica.htm

24/10/198024/10/1980

01/10/1942-

02/08/198002/08/1980

10/05/1948-

X X

X

X X X X


Argentina, Antigua & Barbuda,Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Dominica, DominicanRepublic, Ecuador, El Salvador,Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, Spain, Saint Lucy, St. Kittis &Nevis, Saint Vicent & theGrenadines, Suriname, Trinidad &Tobago, United States, Uruguay,Venezuela


Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,France, Italy, Netherlands, Peruand Venezuela


221

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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

X

11/10/1986-


Convention for the Protection andDevelopment of the MarineEnvironment in the Wider CaribbeanRegion/Cartagena, Colombia,24/03/1983

Accord for the Constitution of theRegional Committee of VegetalHealth(COSAVE), as a RPPO(Regional Plants ProtectionOrganization) in the scope of theInternational Plant ProtectionConvention (IPPC), 06/12/1951, andthe FAO/Montevideo, 09/03/1989




Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica,Cuba, Dominica, DominicanRepublic, Grenada, Guatemala,Honduras, Netherlands,Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Lucia,St. Vincent and the Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago, UnitedKingdom, United States ofAmerica, Venezuela, EuropeanUnion



http://www.iai.int/



X

X X X

X X X X

X X

X X

12/03/199414/06/1996

18/06/2000-

06/05/198906/05/1989

1967-


Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,Colombia, Cuba, France,Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico,Netherlands, Saint Lucia,Trinidad and Tobago, UnitedKingdom, United States ofAmerica, Republic of Venezuela

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,Ecuador, United States ofAmerica, Mexico, Panamá,Paraguay, Peru, DominicanRepublic, Uruguay, Venezuela

222

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Act/Entry into

Force in theCountry

(mm/dd/yy)

Involved Countries

LegalPromulgation

Documents

Nº/Date


1 2 3 4 5 6 7



Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,Peru, United States, Venezuela


Cooperative Program of Researchand Technology Transference for theSouth American Tropics(PROCITROPICOS) constitutedthroughout a Cooperation Accordcelebrated between the NationalInstitutes of Cattle and FarmingResearch and the IICA /1992


Inter-American Convention for theProtection and Conservation of SeaTurtles/Caracas, 01/12/1996



http://www.inia.gov.ve

14/09/200414/09/2004




01/01/2002-

19/10/199304/05/1994

02/05/2001

1998-

X X X X X

XXX

X X

X

X X X X X

Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia,Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinamand Venezuela

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Table 4.26. Bilateral Acts in vigor for Venezuela in the field of biodiversity, environment, and similar areas with correlated legislation. The acts were related to the components ofthe National Biodiversity Policy of Brazil: 1) Biodiversity Knowledge; 2) Biodiversity Conservation; 3) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Components; 4) Biodiversity Monitoring,Assessment, and Impact Prevention and Mitigation; 5) Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-sharing; 6) Education, Public Awareness,Information and Publicity about Biodiversity; 7) Other themes (Technical Cooperation).

Brazil

Basic Accord of Technical Cooperation/Santa Elena deUairén, 20/07/1973

Friendship and Cooperation Accord Between theFederative Republic of Brazil and the Republic ofVenezuela/Brasília, 17/11/1977

Agreement on Animal Health in Areas of Border of theTwo Countries/Caracas, 07/11/1979

Protocol of the Guzmania, Additional Protocol to theAccord of Friendship and Cooperation of November 17th

1977/ 04/03/1994

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Accord ofTechnical Cooperation for the Amazonian Cooperationand of the Orinoco/Caracas, 04/07/1995

Complementary Adjustment to the Accord of Friendshipand Cooperation in Matter of Animal and Plant Health/Brasília, 08/12/1997

Complementary Adjustment to the Basic Accord ofTechnical Cooperation in the Field of AgrarianDevelopment/Santa Elena de Vairén, 13/08/2001

Presidential Declaration of Caracas/Caracas,06/04/2002

Memorandum Resultant of the Meeting of the Ministersfor the Environment of Colombia and of Venezuela/ nov/2002

http://www.mre.gov.br/portugues/imprensa/nota_detalhe.asp?ID_RELEASE=753

ColombiaNov/2002

06/04/2002

13/08/2001

08/12/1997

04/07/1995

04/03/1994

XX

X X

X

X X

X X

X

X X

X X X

X