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Several points in the Quadripartite Agreement establish cooperation activities that must be performed with regard to nuclear safeguards. Following these directives, the ABACC and the IAEA have been working together in the development and improvement of safeguard approaches, in modern and secure communication systems, inspector training and on the resolution of implementation problems. There is a permanent request from the state system to both agencies to coordinate their task, with the goal of an efficient management of the cost-benefit in the safeguard activities. The cooperation within the framework of the Quadripartite Agreement is an on going activity and the success of a regional and an international safeguard system working together, relies on the good coordination between the parties. At the state level the responsibility of the regulatory body in the safeguard area is to preserve the fulfillment of international commitments, to update the nuclear material inventories as required, to evaluate the radiological risks and their impact on the safeguards activities and to optimize the economic burden on the operator due to safeguards activities. In this paper ARN presents its view on the permanent interaction between the Argentine National Safeguards System, the IAEA and ABACC. The review of some local regulations in line with the new safeguards approaches proposed and the recent progress on the implementation of an unattended system aimed at reduction the inspection effort dedicated by ABACC and IAEA to monitor the spent fuel transfer campaigns to dry storage at Embalse NPP including conditions to start the state of health transmission are reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]