**PRINCIPAL      EXECUTIVE OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATION**
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|  | a. | Designed                such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure                controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to                ensure                that material information relating to the Registrant, including its                consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those                entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report                is                being prepared; |
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|  | b. | Designed                such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal                control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,                to                provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial                reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external                purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting                principles; |
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|  | c. | Evaluated                the effectiveness of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness                of                the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period                covered by this report based on such evaluation;                and |
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|  | d. | Disclosed                in this report any change in the Registrant’s internal control over                financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the                annual                report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially                affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting;                and |
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|  | a. | All                significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or                operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                reasonably likely to adversely affect the Registrant’s ability to record,                process, summarize and report financial data;                and |
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|  | b. | Any                fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                employees who have a significant role in the Registrant’s internal control                over financial reporting. |
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| Date:                July                5th,                2007 |   |   |                                                                           |
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|                                                                   |   |   | Name:                Luiz Fernando Ziegler de Saint Edmond                     |
|                                                                   |   |   | Title:                Chief Executive Officer for Latin                America |

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|        |   |   | Name:                    Miguel                    Nuno da Mata Patricio               |
|        |   |   | Title:                    Chief Executive Officer for North                    America |

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