That article 13 of the Constitution of the Republic indicates that persons and communities are entitled to permanent and secure access to healthy, sufficient and nutritious food and promote food sovereignty; whereas, article 281 of the Constitution of the Republic states that food sovereignty constitutes a strategic objective and obligation of the State to guarantee the permanent self-sufficiency of healthy and culturally appropriate food for people, communities, Article 24 of the Organic Law of the Food Sovereignty Regime provides that the purpose of food safety and health is to promote adequate nutrition and protection of people; and, to prevent, eliminate or reduce the incidence of diseases that may be caused or aggravated by the consumption of contaminated food; whereas, by Law No. 23, promulgated in Official Register No. 217 of 23 November 2003, the National Commission for Eradication of the Foot-and-mouth disease (CONEFA), as a private law entity with its own financing and without In order to carry out the activities necessary to control and eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in the country and other diseases that in the future will be presented in the national livestock sector, planning and coordinating their actions Prevention and control with the Ecuadorian Agency for the Quality Assurance of Agro -AGROCALIDAD; Article 7 of the Law on Eradication Of Foot-and-mouth Disease establishes that the Ecuadorian Agency for the Assurance of the Quality of the Agro -AGROCALITY-, will design and implement a national system of epidemiological surveillance and must organize the Participation of livestock producers at the level of the local FMD eradication committees set up by the National Foot-and-mouth Disease Eradication Commission, public and private sector bodies related to the production of foot-and-mouth disease agricultural, professional and technical of any level linked to this economic activity; that, by Executive Decree 1449, published in Official Register No. 479, dated December 2, 2008, the Constitutional President of the Republic reorganizes the Ecuadorian Agricultural Health Service SESA, transforming it into Agency Ecuadorian of Assurance of the Quality of Agro-AGROCALITY, as a technical entity of public law, with legal personality, patrimony and own funds, deconcentrated, with administrative, economic, financial and operational independence; with Quito-based in Quito and competition at national level, attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries; What, Article 277, states that for the achievement of good living will be general duties of the State: direct, plan and regulate the development process; as well as generating and executing public policies and control and sanction their failure;

That, Article 154 of the Constitution, number 1, provides that it is the responsibility of the State Ministers, to exercise the rectory of the public policies of the area in charge; and; Powers, contained in Article 120 of the Constitution, issue the following: REPEAL OF THE LAW OF CREATION OF THE NATIONAL ERADICATION COMMISSION

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE (CONEFA) Article 1.-Suppression of CONEFA. Repeal the Law of Creation of the National Eradication Commission of Foot and Mouth Disease (CONEFA), promulgated in the Official Register No. 217 of 24 November 2003. Article 2.-Transfer of Competences. The competencies that were granted to the National Commission for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease (CONEFA) by the Law that is repealed, will be assumed by the Agency for the Assurance of the Quality of the Agro- AGROCALITY, within 180 days counted from the time of the law, immediately including in its administrative structure these competences in all the provinces, cantons and parishes, which are necessary the control of animal health.

SINGLE GENERAL DISPOSITION Replace in any existing normative body the "National Commission for Eradication of FMD-CONEFA", by "Agency for the Assurance of the Quality of the Agro-AGROCALITY".

TRANSIENT provisions FIRST.- Within the transition period, which will be One hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of publication of this Law in the Official Register, the National Commission for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease (CONEFA), will have to liquidate all the personnel under its dependence, as well as all outstanding obligations and commitments. SECOND.- Within the transition process, the National Commission for Eradication Of Aftosa Fever (CONEFA) will consider the fulfillment of all its obligations and commitments made prior to this Law, which must be complied with in legal and due form. AGROCALITY will not be responsible for these obligations. AGROCALITY will liquidate any obligation that has to be pending with CONEFA, in respect of the vaccination processes. THIRD.- In the transitional period, the National Commission for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease (CONEFA) will not be able to acquire new responsibilities, except those that are subject to the fulfilment of obligations