C – AusAgave licensing opportunity Brazil Government – EMBRAPA project cooperation; germplasm export label Minister Fernando Bezerra Coelho (Brazil) at Ayr site with <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Chambers</strong> on 26 August 2011 18
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA (EMBRAPA) AND AUSTRALIAN AGAVE PTY LTD (AUSAGAVE) The Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, a public company within the scope of the federal government, under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) of the Federative Republic of Brazil, created by Law number 5.851, of 12 February 1972, as modified by Federal Law number 12.383, of March 1, 2011, with its current bylaws approved by Federal Decree nº 7.766, of June 25, 2012, , registered in the <strong>National</strong> Corporate Register (CNPJ) under nº 00.348.003/0001-10, with headquarters in Brasília, DF, at Parque Estação Biológica – PqEB s/n, final da Avenida W/3 Norte, hereinafter called EMBRAPA, represented in this MoU by its President Dr. Maurício Antônio Lopes; Australian Agave Pty Ltd, (ABN 93 153 149 734) Level 1, 214 Greenhill Road, Eastwood, South Australia 5063, Australia, hereinafter called AusAgave, represented in this MoU by its Managing Director Dr. <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Chambers</strong>; which in this MoU shall also be designated, individually, as the/a “Party” and, jointly, as the “Parties”, declare their mutual interest and will to start a cooperative program in the fields of agricultural research and technology with the aim of developing sustainable technologies, based on laboratory and field tests and assays with Agave tequilana Weber in a few Brazilian regional environments, with the final purpose of identifying and/or developing and introducing adapted Agave plants and cultivars, and the respective production system, apt to be used in the Brazilian production of ethanol. 19