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CONVENTIONS Law 25.755 Approve the agreement concluded on 26 December 1996 with the Province of La Pampa and accept the transfer of jurisdiction and dominion carried out by that province in favor of the National State for the purpose of the expansion of the Lihuel Calel National Park. Sanctioned: July 16, 2003. Enacted: August 22, 2003.

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation assembled in Congress, etc. sanction with force of Law:

ARTICLE 1 Approve the agreement of 26 December 1996 between the Argentine Nation and the province of La Pampa, represented by the president of the Nation and the governor of the province of La Pampa, respectively, which is annexed and part of this law. ARTICLE 2 Acéptase the cession of the jurisdiction and dominion carried out by the province of La Pampa in favor of the national State, for the purpose of the expansion of the Lihuel Calel National Park, of the plots whose catastral description appear in annex I to the aforementioned agreement, and in article 3° of the law of the province of La Pampa N° 1899, with an approximate area of 12,586 hectares, and that are identified as plots, Article 3 Apply the conditions of the cession of jurisdiction carried out by the province of La Pampa in favor of the national State, for the purpose of the expansion of the Lihuel Calel National Park, of the plot whose cadastral description appears in annex II of the agreement quoted in article 1 of this law and in article 4° of the law of the province of La Pampa No. 1899, with an area of approximately 17 hectares, 98 areas, and ARTICLE 4 Declaranse of public utility and subject to expropriation the individualized plots in Annex III of the agreement quoted in Article 1 of the present Law, and in Article 5° of the law of the province of La Pampa No. 1899, with an approximate surface of 9731 hectares, and which are identified as plots 05 and 03, lot 09, section A, section X, lot 11, section A, section X and plot. ARTICLE 5o The law enforcement authority 22,351 will, in its case, promote the purchase and/or trial of expropriation before the competent federal courts. In both cases, the National Tax Court shall take action for the purposes provided for by law 21.626 and its regulations. The national State shall be responsible for all erogations which require the implementation of this law, from the general budget of the Nation. ARTICLE 6 Complying with the extremes required by articles 1, 3° and concordants of the law 22.351, the plots quoted in annex I to the agreement referred to in article 1 of the present law shall be incorporated into the Lihuel Calel National Park, under the regime of that law, understood and zoned as set out in Chapter II, under the title "of the National Parks". ARTICLE 7 Complying with the extremes required by articles 1 and 3° and concordants of the law 22.351, the plots quoted in annex II to the convention referred to in article 1 of the present law shall be incorporated into the Lihuel Calel National Park, under the regime of that law, covered and zoned as set out in Chapter IV, under the title "of the Natural Reserves". ARTICLE 8 In the case of the purchase in administrative headquarters and/or initiation of judicial expropriation of the plots identified in Annex III of the agreement quoted in Article 1 of the present Law, and thus fulfilled the conditions for the assignment of jurisdiction and eminent domain of the same established in Article 5 of the law of the province of La Pampa No. 1899, the same shall be incorporated into the National Park of Lihuel. Article 9 Contact the Executive.

IN THE SESSION OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN GOOD AIRES, TO THE DIASS OF THE MONTH OF JULY OF THE YEAR DOS MIL TRES.

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EDUARDO O. CHANGE. . JOSE L. GIOJA. . Eduardo D. Rollano. . Juan Estrada.

CONVENTION

Among the ARGENTINA NATION, represented in this act by the President of the Nation, Dr. Carlos Saul MENEM, henceforth "THE NATION", and the PROVINCIA OF THE PAMPA, represented in this act by the Lord Governor, Dr. Rubén Hugo MARIN, henceforth "THE PROVINCIPLE", celebrate this Convention, which will be governed by the following clauses and conditions:

FIRST: Both parties agree to declare of common priority interest the extension of the limits of the Lihuel Calel National Park, with the aim of perfecting the original design of this area, improving and ensuring the safeguarding of a viable sample of regional ecosystems, protecting environments and species not yet represented at the present time, preserving the cultural and natural heritage, taking its surface to approximately 32,300 hectares.

SECOND: In order to realize the objective of the First Clause of this Convention, the NATION and PROVINCIA will begin the actions corresponding to incorporate into the present Lihuel Calel National Park the plots that, due to their natural characteristics, surface and location, have been characterized as suitable for the object of this Convention. To this end, the lands of the provincial domain and private domain whose enumeration, such as Annexes I, II and III, respectively, are identified as an integral part of the present.

THIRD: THE PROVINCIA shall carry out the necessary procedures for the assignment to the NATION of the jurisdiction and domain of the plots included in Annex I to the present, in order to promote the disabling of the Protected Area established in Article 1(2) of the Law of the Province of the Pampa No. 1689; of the jurisdiction of the plot included in Annex II and of the public jurisdiction of the expropriation of the

FOURTH: The NATION shall carry out in its exclusive charge all administrative and/or judicial procedures that correspond to the incorporation of the private domain plots, including in Annex III to the present, assuming in its entirety the erogations that this implies.

FIFTH: The NATION must execute in its exclusive charge the construction of perimeter fences necessary according to the new limits of the Lihuel Calel National Park.

SEXTA: Both parties, filled with the ends provided for in the THIRD Clause, undertake to carry out the necessary procedures for the dictation of the National Law of Acceptance of the assignment and extension of the limits of the Lihuel Calel National Park.

SEPTIMA: NATION undertakes to carry out training activities for the technical staff of the areas involved in this Convention. It will also inform PROVINCIA about the research programs to be developed in the area of the Lihuel Calel National Park, and the latter may be counterparts to those in which it wishes to intervene.

OCTAVA: NATION delegates in the ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONAL PARKS and PROVINCIA in the MINISTERY OF PRODUCTION and in the SUBSECRETARIA DE ECOLOGIA to carry out the actions necessary to realize the object of this Convention. To this end, both parties shall be entitled to formalize the Complementary Acts necessary for this purpose.

NOVENA: PROVINCIA reserves the right to revoke the aforementioned assignment if the NATION did not give the preds the destination provided for in the Third Clause. The same reservation is set for the event that the NATION does not comply with the ends provided for in the Fourth and Fifth Clauses within a period of THREE (3) years counted from the date of sanction of the respective Provincial Law of assignment.

DECIMA: For the purposes of the present, the parties constitute the following addresses: THE NATION in Balcarce 50, Capital Federal, and THE PROVINCIA in Avenida Luro 700, city of Santa Rosa.

In proof of conformity, DOS (2) copies of the same tenor and only one effect in the city of Buenos Aires are signed at 26 days of December 1996.

Dr. RUBEN HUGO MARIN

(FIRMA)

Annex I

PAMPA PROVINCIA TO TRANSFER IN ITS TOTALITY

Annex II

PRIVATE DOMINY PARCE THAN JURISDICCION SE TRANSFIERE

Annex III

PRIVATE DOMINY PURSUANT TO BUY or EXPROPIATION