The Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to inform him that the Government of the Argentine Republic has addressed to him a declaration under Article 26(3)(c) of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of December 2, 1961, as revised at Geneva on November 10, 1972, and on October 23, 1978, to the effect that the number of contribution units applicable to the Argentine Republic is increased, as from January 1, 1998, from one-fifth (0.2) to one-half (0.5).
June 18, 1997