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About FAO For over 40 years legislation on food and
agriculture was collected and disseminated by FAO through a publication
called Food and Agricultural
Legislation. Since the advent of the digital in
formation age, the FAO Legal Office has taken up the challenge to provide its
user community with an accessible, more comprehensive and up-to-date legal
information service through its online database - FAOLEX. FAOLEX contains treaties, laws and
regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources from all
over the world. Most of the material comes from the official gazettes sent by
FAO's Member Nations pursuant to Article XI of the FAO Constitution, for the
receipt of which FAO is indeed grateful. Upon receiving such material, the
FAO Legal Office selects, indexes and summarizes in English, French or
Spanish significant texts pertaining to FAO’s mandate, i.e. legislation
on agriculture, livestock, environment gen., fisheries, food, forestry, land
& soil, cultivated plants, water and wild species & ecosystems.
Records are provided in either English, French or Spanish and the full text of the document is provided in the original language or in the language of communication used by the originating country.
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