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Assinado em Lisboa, em 17 de dezembro de 2019, redigido em dois exemplares, nas línguas portuguesa e inglesa, fazendo ambos os textos igualmente fé.

PELA REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA:

Teresa Ribeiro Secretária de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros e

da Cooperação

PELOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA:

George Glass

Embaixador dos Estados Unidos da América em Portugal

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REGARDING THE SHARING OF CONFISCATED ASSETS OR THEIR EQUIVALENT VALUE

The Portuguese Republic and the United States of America (hereinafter referred to as «the Parties»), Considering the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic

Substances, done at Vienna, December 20, 1988; Considering the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, done at New

York, December 9, 1999; Considering the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, done at New York,

November 15, 2000; Considering further the United Nations Convention against Corruption, done at New York, October 31, 2003; Recognizing the Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); Recognizing further the longstanding cooperation between the United States of America and the Portuguese

Republic, in particular in the area of judicial cooperation in criminal matters; and Recognizing the principles of equality, sovereignty, reciprocity and mutual respect, HAVE AGREED as follows:

ARTICLE 1 OBJECTIVE

This Agreement defines a framework for the sharing of confiscated assets or their equivalent value between

the Parties.

ARTICLE 2 SCOPE OF APPLICATION

This Agreement is intended solely for the purposes of mutual legal assistance between the Parties and does

not give rise to any rights in favor of third parties.

ARTICLE 3 DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Agreement: