Don Chambers - Ausbiotech National Conference

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 National 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. Don Chambers;
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.
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