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Guidelines, strategies, regulations, resolutions and agreements, at the international, regional, national and subnational levels that configure the actions of the State.

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Agreement on Agriculture of the World Trade Organization (AoA)

The WTO Agreement on Agriculture established the first multilateral framework for the reform of agricultural trade and domestic agricultural policies. This fundamental agreement introduced specific ru...

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

The Convention on Biological Diversity is a legally binding international treaty that represents a significant step forward in the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its comp...

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity is the international instrument for "the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the be...

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development is a set of 27 principles adopted during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992....

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty signed in 1992, which entered into force in 1994. Its primary purpose is to address the global challenges ...

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty whose main objective is the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity worldwide. It was adopted at the Earth Summ...

Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of the Vienna Convention has been ratified by all 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its entry into force in 1989 a...

The Montreal Protocol

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the landmark multilateral environmental agreement that regulates the production and consumption of nearly 100 man-made chemicals ref...

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

The Vienna Conventionfor the Protection of the Ozone Layer is a multilateral environmental agreement. It was signed at the Vienna Conference in 1985 and entered into force in 1988. In terms of univers...

International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention)

The UPOV Convention is an international treaty that provides a legal framework for the protection of new plant varieties, granting exclusive commercial rights to the breeders. To obtain protection, a ...

WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation

Its objective is to establish an equitable, uniform and neutral system of customs valuation of goods: a system that adjusts to commercial realities and that prohibits the use of arbitrary or fictitiou...

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice

The Charter of the United Nations is an international treaty signed in 1945 that sets out the purposes and principles of the organization, as well as its organs and functions. The Charter gives the Un...