The UNC

Mandate

URB Natural Colombia (UNC) directs URB Science’s commercial policy for Colombia as an independent technology management office.  It is obliged by the manufacturing standards of the United States of America and by the commercial statutes of The Republic of Colombia to act in accordance with the interest of Colombia’s medicinal cannabis industry, and sustainability benchmarks as a whole.  Its primary goal is to ensure quality stability, while taking due account of market changes. In so doing, it facilitates optimized high-performance growing mediums for Colombia’s global leadership in plant medicine– More Health, For Less Money.​

Organization of URB Natural Colombia

UNC has two head offices; one in Cali, Colombia, and one in Houston, Texas, as  well as a branch office in Bogota.  Manufacturing takes place in Mississippi, USA, with an export office in New Jersey, and bottling operations in Florida and Cali.  UNC maintains warehouses in Bogota and Cali, with two official UNC stores both located in Bogotá.​

• Organizational chart

• US Manufacturing Team

• US URB Sciences Team

• Colombia Team & Partners (UNC)

• UNC Advisory Board
  

UNC Producer Profitability

The determination and degree of producer profitability is governed by UNC’s biological standard. According to this standard, UNC shall provide producers with the requisite biological best practices permitting producers to maintain biological reserves at the level necessary for high-performance growing mediums.  In so doing, it shall take into account the regulatory and market changes of the Colombian medicinal cannabis sector and provide additional biological support accordingly. A total-solutions cost exceeding total per-plant value addition shall not be exceeded so both cottage and industrial producers achieve a yield that corresponds to UNC’s mandate of growing “More for Less.”​

More details may be found under UNC’s executive brief (a guide to “More for Less”)​

Goals and responsibilities of URB Natural Colombia (UNC)​

Mandate

URB Natural Colombia (UNC) directs URB Science’s commercial policy for Colombia as an independent technology management office.  It is obliged by the manufacturing standards of the United States of America and by the commercial statutes of The Republic of Colombia to act in accordance with the interest of the medicinal cannabis industry of Colombia, and consumers as a whole.  Its primary goal is to ensure quality stability, while taking due account of market changes. In so doing, it facilitates optimized high-performance growing mediums for Colombia’s global leadership in plant medicine– More Health, For Less Money.​

Stable Quality

Stable quality is an important prerequisite for growth and prosperity. Synthetic materials , in opposition to this, impair optimized genetics.  They hinder the full functioning of the plant’s endogenous nutrient-cycling system, and result in sub-optimized plant nutrition.  The UNC equates stable quality with high-performance growing mediums– I.e. a fuller functioning nutrient-cycling system. Correlation between fungal and bacterial biomass, to plant nutrition instructs that plant quality depends on plant nutrition; plant nutrition depends on quality of nutrient cycling, and nutrient cycling depends on the presence of, and relationship between bacterial and fungal biomass, and subsequent corollaries contributing to a fully-functioning nutrient-cycling system throughout the holobiont.  The main indicator for the stability of quality comes from observing the flower against the biological activity within the growing medium, while also ensuring stability in the cost-benefit yield.  This indicator for nutritional decision making is best served by a full-cycle inoculation of the biological material delivered in URB, regenerating the conditions required to regularly deliver high-quality nutrition through biological best practices.​

Implementation of biological best practices

The UNC implements its biological standard for plant medicine by setting internationally-recognized microbial biomass minimums within growing mediums, at regular intervals, throughout the cultivation process.  In so doing, it seeks to keep the Colombian quality outcomes at or above UNC’s minimum biological standard.  In order to influence performance conditions, the UNC also forms partnerships with US-based boutique providers of premium genetics.​

Product supply and distribution​

UNC is entrusted with the product-supply-and-distribution privilege. It supplies the Colombian economy with premium quality organic biological material for sustainable cultivation purposes. These biological best practices meet high standards with respect to quality and stability.  UNC is also charged by URB Sciences with the task of retail distribution.​

Cashless payment transactions​

Regarding cashless payment transactions, The UNC provides direct customer-after-sale support, including for in-store transactions settled in the UNC payment system.  ​

Network management​

UNC manages the national inventory reserves. It requires point-of-sale management for local sites, and identification and integration of retail sites considered appropriate partners to completing and growing network priorities.​

Grow Op. Stability​

UNC contributes to the stability of plant quality for any high-performance operation.  It fulfills this mandate by analyzing sources of nutrient-cycling suppression and identifying best biological practices to streamline into the operations existing technical package.  In addition, UNC helps to create and implement situ strategic programs for increased operational profitability by leveraging the biological best practices to achieve more for less.​

Inter-product compatibility cooperation​

UNC participates in inter-product compatibility cooperation.  To this end, it works in conjunction with other critical suppliers to maximize the amount of producer-value delivered.  UNC participates  in multilateral technical packages, cooperating with other input and equipment suppliers, forming long-term value-adding relationships based on solving producer problems more effectively and efficiently. ​

The foundation of any technical package ​

URB Natural  acts as biological reference for high-performance cultivation.  It processes and delivers nutrients such to increase nutrient-cycling efficiency, working on behalf of all other inputs to increase their effectiveness,  As observed in any natural living system,  microbial inoculation is the basis for highly-productive food and forest systems, the same way that URB serves as the microbial basis for highly-productive plant-medicine operations.  It is the secure foundation upon which the plant’s edifice is built, including levels of mineral input (fertilizer), crop protection measures, irrigative schedules, and other factors of production.

Statistics

The UNC compiles statistical data on the correlation between biologically inoculated growing mediums and improved quality as indicated by genetic expression of flower and the cost-benefit curve.​

Structure and Organization

UNC as a SAS Office

UNC was founded by virtue of Terrae Voluntas Colombia SAS (TEVOCO), which is the Colombian-incorporated legal entity (Simplified Joint Stock Company)  through which the UNC office operates.  UNC business was started on April 30, 2020.​

The UNC is a special TEVOCO office governed by the constitution and charter of TEVOCO SAS according to Colombian law, and ICA provisions of importation, exportation, and commercialization.  Its shares are registered shares and are listed with the Colombian Chamber of Commerce. 100% of the share capital is held by the US-based  shareholder officed in Houston, TX.​

Organization regulations​

The organization of UNC is regulated in Law 1258 of 2008, in addition to Decree 2020 of June 2009.

Geographical structure​

UNC has two head offices; one in Cali, Colombia, and one in Houston, Texas, as  well as a branch office in Bogota.  Moreover, manufacturing takes place in Mississippi, USA, with an export office in New Jersey, and bottling operations in Florida and Cali.  UNC maintains warehouses in Bogota and Cali, with only two official UNC stores both located in Bogota serving local demand.​

General Meeting of Shareholders​

The General Meeting of Shareholders is held once a year, as a rule in April.​

Executive management​

UNC’s supreme executive body is the URB Sciences Governing Board. It is responsible for price policy and international export cooperation​

The country-specific managing and executive body consists of two members of TEVOCO and a third external industry expert.. This body is responsible for the strategic and operational management of URB Natural Colombia.​

Internal organization​

UNC is divided into three Departments. The organizational units of departments 1 and 2 are located in Cali, Bogota, and Medellin, and that of department 3 in Houston.​

The scope of business of Department 1 includes: B2C Education, B2C Marketing, B2C Counsel– Executive​

The scope of business of Department 2 includes: B2B Education, B2B Marketing, B2B Counsel-- Executive​

The scope of business of Department 3 includes: Manufacturing, Distribution, R&D (High-Performance Substrate optimization), Administration – Executive + Legislative + Judicial​

Terrae Voluntas Colombia and URB Sciences are the company units of the governing body. UNC reports to Terrae Voluntas Colombia.  The Internal Auditors unit reports to private counsel, ICA, and DIAN. – Judicial​

Organizational chart​

Sustainability Management

Sustainability Report

The UNC’s annual sustainability report is a listing of all licensed operators that that meet UNC’s Biological standard of stable quality.​

Supervisory and Executive Bodies

Governing Board

Function

Governing Board committees

Members of the Governing Board

Executive Board

Function

Executive Board committees

Members of the Executive Board

Deputy Board

Function

Deputy Board committees

Members of the Deputy Board

Legal Basis

ICA Registration

ICA Registro TEVOCO

TEVOCO CAMERA

Certificado De Existencia Y Representacion TEVOCO

Terms of Business

Terms of Business of UNC
Valid until 31st December, 2022

Applicable Instruction Sheets

Instruction sheet on placing test order for facility cultivation

Instruction sheet on scheduling first brainstorming meeting

Instruction sheet on joining UNC's National Network

Instruction sheet on evaluating URB

Import License

Import license to Terrae Voluntas Colombia SAS

UNC National Network

Tasks

UNC store members represent UNC  in the various regions of Colombia.  There task is two-fold: to keep UNC informed of customer needs through they’re daily contact with retail clients, and, as ambassadors of UNC, to explain this new mindset of biological best practices for high-quality sustainable results to their customers and networks.​

Organization

UNC has  representative retail-POS in Cali, Bogota, and Barranquilla.  As the national network expands, we will update this section.. The representatives are supported in their duties by UNC B2C Deputy.​

Regions and cities

Bogota//Cundinamarca//Andino Region

Cali//Valle del Cauca//Pacifica Region

Barranquilla//Magdalena//Costa Norte Region

Regional Educational Councils

Regional Education Councils support representatives and high-quality B2B producers in increasing their effectiveness of building customer loyalty through broad education on biological best practices for the increasingly sophisticated preferences of the 21st. century consumer.  Regional Education Councils also supports representatives in monitoring customer needs and preferences in their region and explaining to customers how UNC reliably addresses these demands. ​

The Regional Educational Councils is made of UNC R&D Office, URB Sciences U.S. technical office, UNC’s U.S-Curriculum partner in High-Performance Substrates.​