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AGREEMENT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST Preamble WHEREAS one hundred and fifty countries meeting at the International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Leipzig in June 1996 adopted the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the “Global Plan of Action”), which provides an internationally agreed framework for the conservation, exploration, collection, characterization, evaluation and documentation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, one of the elements of which is the development and support of a rational, efficient and sustainable system of plant genetic resources collections around the world; WHEREAS at its Thirty-first Session in November 2001, the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (hereinafter referred to as “FAO”) adopted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the “International Treaty”) which provides an agreed international framework for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, and, in its Article 5, provides for Contracting Parties to cooperate to promote the development of an efficient and sustainable system of ex situ conservation; WHEREAS the International Treaty also provides that due attention be given to the need for adequate documentation, characterization, regeneration and evaluation, and for promoting the development and t