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to treat the environment not only as a specific objective in itself,

but also as a component of economic co-operation.

(b) Fields of co-operation

In the

In principle, no field is excluded from economic co-operation. light of Brazil's recent opening-up to the international community and the progressive liberalization of its legislation, new fields will

gradually appear.

In addition to trade co-operation (the longest-standing) and industrial co-operation (the most recent area), or scientific and technical co-operation, and over and above the more traditional fields such as energy, forms of co-operation are likely to develop in the areas of:

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(industrial) intellectual property;

regulations in the fields of technology, health and plant health

(certification and standardization);

services: for example, tourism and transport;

electronics,

forward-looking fields such as data processing, telecommunications and the use of space technology for environmental

protection;

monetary information.

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