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Copyright for other language versions of AGROVOC rests with the institutions responsible for producing the national versions of the thesaurus.

Contact address and e-mail for copyright enquiries to national institutions:

Czech Republic	Institute of Agricultural and Food Information	Helena Slezakova
Germany	The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture	ZADI
Hungaria	Gödöllõ Agribusiness Centre	László Gábor Papócsi
Iran	Iranian Research Institute for Scientific Information and Documentation (IRANDOC)	IRANDOC
Italy	Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare (ISMEA)	Luca Caligara
Japan	Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Center (AFFRIC)	Akane Takezaki
Korea	Rural Development Administration (RDA), Agricultural Science Library	Kil Seob, Lee
Lao	Information Management and Strategic Planning Division of the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute
Malaysia	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Suhaimi Napis
Poland	Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza, Central Agricultural Library (CBR), Warszawa, Poland	Irena Walczak-Koperska
Portugal	Ministério da Agricultura, Desenvolvimento Rural e Pescas	Manuela Pintão
Slovakia	Institute for scientific and technical informations for agriculture Nitra	Jozef Bartko
Thailand	Thai National AGRIS Centre, Kasetsart University	Aree Thunkijjanukij