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… Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) 99 Box 14. National Sovereignty and Property Rights 102 Article 13 – … decision-making at the national level. It recognizes the sovereignty of States over their natural resources, and laid … the International Undertaking as being subject to 21 the sovereignty of the states over their plant genetic resources. …

… as (re-stated in Principle 21 of the Rio Declaration), sovereignty over the natural resources within their territory … 21 of the Rio Declaration, states do not have absolute sovereignty over the waters of such rivers within their …