NATIONAL INTEREST

Law 27227

Declare of National Interest the Control of the Botrana Lobesia Plague. Sanctioned: November 26, 2015 Enacted in Fact: December 22, 2015

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

ARTICLE 1 °-The control of the botran Lobesian plague is declared in the national interest.

Article 2 °-The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, through the National Service for Health and Agro-Food Quality (SENASA- under the National Prevention and Prevention Program), will be the enforcement authority of this law. Eradication of botrana Lobesia created by the resolution of the National Service for Health and Agro-Food Quality (SENASA-729/2010).

ARTICLE 3-The implementing authority shall provide the wine producers of the pheromone emitters with the delivery of the sexual confusion technique, or the inputs necessary for the use of any fighting technique. against the plague that is superadora of the mentioned, arbitrating the measures so that the strategy to implement has a generalized and simultaneous character on the properties that are found in the areas with presence of the insect in function of the results of the official monitoring of the plague carried out by the mentioned program. Operational expenditure for the placement and maintenance of issuers shall be borne by the beneficiaries.

ARTICLE 4 °-The wine producers will be beneficiaries of this law during the first four (4) years of promulgated and regulated the same. From the fifth (5th) year, producers must continue to carry out the pest control measures.

ARTICLE 5-The producers of establishments in which the presence of the pest is detected subsequently at the beginning of the entry into force of this law, will be incorporated as beneficiaries for the duration of the assistance.

ARTICLE 6-The National Service for Health and Agro-Food Quality (SENASA- Conformara) will coordinate and coordinate a technical committee of which INTA and the competent health agencies of the wine-growing provinces will participate with the presence of the plague, with the purpose of carrying out a comprehensive control plan for the plague by joining efforts to carry out the following actions: (a) To participate in the elaboration of the regulations necessary for the implementation of this law; control actions of the botran Lobesian plague which must be carried out by the

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(c) Define the technical guidelines for the acquisition of the inputs necessary to carry out pest control; d) Define the training needs of the producers for the use of the technology (e) to establish the procedure for the distribution of control inputs; (f) to develop the procedure for reintegrating by producers; (g) to submit an annual progress report and progress of the programme to the The competent committees of both houses of the Honorable Congress of the Nation.

Article 7 °-The national executive branch shall have the allocation of a special budget item, in accordance with the provisions of Annex I that are part of the present, which shall be added to the existing one for the National Program of Prevention and Eradication of Botrana Lobesia-created by the resolution of the National Service for Health and Agro-Food Quality-SENASA 729/2010-for the purpose of enabling compliance with this law. This item shall be adjusted, subsequently, as reported by the implementing authority in accordance with the possible spread of the pest.

ARTICLE 8-Products for the application of the sexual confusion technique with pheromones, shall enjoy the following tax benefits: 1. Exemption from import duties, rate of statistics and other taxes on import, including value added tax; 2. Value added tax exemption throughout the marketing process.

Article 9-Facultete the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation to reassign the necessary items to comply with the provisions of this law.

ARTICLE 10. -the implementing authority shall regulate the procedure whereby the wine producers, following the progressive scale of Annex I to this Regulation, reintegrate the corresponding percentage of inputs and penalties into the programme; apply in cases of non-compliance. The sums reimbursed by the producers will be specifically affected by the purchase of inputs necessary for the use of the control technique to be carried out in the following seasons.

ARTICLE 11. -Contact 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 27227-

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

Annex I.-Draft Control and Eradication Act of Botrana Lobesia

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Date of publication: 23/12/2015

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