DECREE NO. 5,455, OF June 2, 2005

Disposes on the execution of the Quadragumth Fourth Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of February 23, 2005.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution that gives it the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, and

Considering that the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, which created the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), firmed by the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil on August 12, 1980 and approved by the National Congress, through the Legislative Decree No. 66 of November 16, 1981, provides for the modality of Economic Supplementation Arrangement;

Whereas the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, in Montevideo on November 29, 1991, the Agreement of Economic Complementation No. 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, incorporated into the Brazilian domestic law by the Decree No. 550 of May 27 of 1992;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, on February 23, 2005, in Montevideo, the Quadragumth Fourth Additional Protocol to the Complementation Agreement Economic No. 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay;

DECRETA:

Art. 1º The Quadragth Fourth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement no 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Argentine Republic, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.

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

Brasilia, June 2, 2005; 184º of Independence and 117º of the Republic.

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim