SHEEP FARMING

Law 27230

Law No 25,422. Amendment.

Sanctioned: November 26, 2015 Enacted: December 29, 2015

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc., are sanctioned by law:

ARTICLE 1-Amend Article 1 of Law 25,422, for the recovery of sheep farming, which shall be drawn up as follows:

Article 1 °-Institutional regime for the recovery of sheep farming, which shall govern with the scope and limitations laid down in this law and the accompanying rules which the national executive branch will dictate in its consequence, to achieve the adaptation and modernisation of the production systems of sheep that will allow their sustainability through time and, consequently, to maintain and increase the sources of work and the radication of the rural population. This law includes the exploitation of the sheep's farm which has the ultimate aim of achieving marketable production, whether of animals on foot, wool, meat, leather, milk, fat, semen, embryos or other derived products, and which is carried out in any part of the national territory, on land and under appropriate agro-ecological conditions and the production of flame.

ARTICLE 2-Amend Article 2 (2) of Law 25,422, for the recovery of sheep farming, which shall be drawn up as follows:

Article 2-The activities relating to sheep farming included in the scheme introduced by this law are: the recomposition of the majadas, the improvement of productivity, the racial intensification of the holdings, the improvement of the the quality of the production, the use of appropriate technology for extensive management, the restructuring of the company, the promotion of associative enterprises, the improvement of the processes of skiing, sorting and conditioning of the wool, the health control, the use and control of the wild fauna, the support to the small holdings and the marketing and industrialization of production carried out directly by the producer or through cooperatives or other vertical integration undertakings in which the producer has a holding direct and active in your driving. The related activities for sheep and llamas included in the following regime are: infrastructure financing, commercial pre-financing, working capital financing, purchase of inputs, equipment and machinery needed for provide the producer with the services in form

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The invention also includes: efficient, operating or refitting of plants for the processing of fibres, meats, hides and/or milk, logistics, product promotion, operation and purchase of equipment and/or inputs for commercial premises, fairs and markets.

ARTICLE 3-Amend Article 4 (2) of Law 25,422, for the recovery of sheep farming, which shall be drawn up as follows:

Article 4 °: The natural or legal persons and the individual successors who carry out activities covered by this law, and who comply with the requirements laid down by their rules, as well as the providers of services, transformers, trade in sheep and llamas. Service providers are considered to be natural or legal persons who provide the producer with services related to the activities provided for in this Law. Natural or legal persons who draw up, from the raw material, products derived from or intended for production, are considered to be processors. Natural or legal persons who market the raw materials or manufactured products are considered to be marketed.

ARTICLE 4 °-The application of Law 25,422, in all its articles, shall be extended to producers possessing populations of sheep and/or llamas and other beneficiaries provided for in Article 4 of this Law.

ARTICLE 5 °-Commune to the national executive branch.

GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, AT THE TWENTY-SIX DAYS OF THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN.

-REGISTERED UNDER NO 27230-

JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. -GERARDO ZAMORA. -Lucas Chedrese. -Juan H. Estrada.

Date of publication: 04/01/2016

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