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Decree No. 6757, Of 2 February 2009

Original Language Title: Decreto nº 6.757, de 2 de Fevereiro de 2009

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DECREE NO 6,757, DE February 2, 2009.

Disposes on the execution of the Qüteneth First Additional Protocol to the Agreement for Economic Supplementation no 35 (51PA-ACE35), signed between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile of December 10, 2008.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution conferring you the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, and

Considering that the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, which created the Latin American Association of Integration (ALADI), signed by Brazil on August 12, 1980 and promulgated by Decree no 87,054, of March 23, 1982, provides for the modality of Economic Supplementation Agreement ;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to the MERCOSUR, and the Republic of Chile, on the basis of the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, signed on June 25, 1996, in San Luís, Argentina, the Economic Supplementation Agreement no 35, promulgated by Decree No. 2,075 of November 19, 1996 ;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to the MERCOSUR, and of the Republic of Chile, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, on December 10, 2008, in Montevideo, the Qüinquith First Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement n° 35, between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to the MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile ;

DECRETA:

Art. 1o The Qütentieth First Additional Protocol to the Supplementation Agreement Economic no 35, between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to the MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile, of December 10 2008, attached by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.

Art. 2o This Decree goes into effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, February 2, 2009 ; 188o of Independence and 121the of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT NO 35 CELEBRATED

BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE STATES PARTS OF MERCOSUR AND THE GOVERNMENT

DA REPUBLIC OF CHILE

Fiftieth First Additional Protocol

The Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to the MERCOSUR, and of the Republic of Chile, accredited by their respective Governments, second powers bestowed in good and due form, deposited in timely manner at the General Secretariat of the Association Latin American Integration (ALADI).

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the Treaty of Montevideo 1980 contemplate the different degrees of development existing in the region and recognizes the Republic of Paraguay as the Country of Minor Relative Economic Development.

CONSIDERING the MCS-CH Resolution 1/08, emanating from the XIX Extraordinary Meeting of the Commission Administrator of ACE No. 35, for which it wakes up to advance margins of preferences beston upon the Republic of Chile to the Republic of Paraguay and the Republic of Paraguay to the Republic of Chile,

CONVEEM IN:

Article 1-Advances the margins of preference provided for in the letters f and g of Article 2 of ACE No. 35, outored by the Republic of Paraguay to the Republic of Chile and the Republic of Chile to the Republic of Paraguay for the products originating in their respective territories, as follows:

a) for the products included in Annex 6, a preference of 67% to be applied shall apply. of 1/1/2008 and a preference of 100% as of 1/1/2009 ; and

(b) products having a special treatment in Annex 7, superior to the established in Annex 6, will retain the corresponding benefit for the period between 01/1/2008 and 12/31/2008 and as of 01/1/2009 will have a 100% preference.

Article 2º-This Protocol shall enter into force bilaterally 30 days after the date on which the Chile and Paraguay communicate to the General Secretariat of ALADI the compliance with the internal legal provisions for their entry into force.

The General Secretariat of ALADI shall be depositary of this Protocol, of which it shall send copies duly authenticated to the Governments of the signatory countries and to the Office of the MERCOSUR.

IN FIS OF THAT, the respective Plenipotentiaries sign this Protocol in the city of Montevideo, at the ten days of the month of December of the year two thousand and eight, in an original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, both of which are equally valid texts. (a.:) By the Government of the Argentine Republic: Juan Carlos Olima ; By the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil: José Humberto de Brito Cruz ; By the Government of the Republic of Paraguay: Emilio Giménez ; By the Government of the East Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Rodríguez Gigena ; By the Government of the Republic of Chile: Eduardo Araya Alemparte.