7788, and Article 2 and subparagraph f) of Article 6.2 of Law No. 8539, Approval of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: it is interpreted that, in the first paragraph of subsection iv) of Article 1 of Chapter I, the concept 'created' shall be understood to refer to the technical concept 'developed', the latter understood as 'the set of plant breeding (mejoramiento genético) techniques used to obtain a new plant variety (variedad vegetal)'.
2.—That according to the provisions of Article 34, paragraph 2, the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Office of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. Therefore, Pursuant to the powers conferred upon them by Articles 146 and 140, subsections 10 and 12 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Costa Rica.
They decree: