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Pursuant to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), Georgia has enacted, with the intent of approximation with EU legislation, numerous legislative amendments in the Food/Feed Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection Code of Georgia as well as enacted crucial new legislature in order to improve food/feed safety and consumer protection, including mandatory labelling of genetically modified products (GMO), (...)

On 28 January 2016, the European Commission presented its first report on the implementation of the GSP. The Report presents the three arrangements of the GSP, their current beneficiaries and some basic trade statistics. It is accompanied by a detailed progress report on the EU Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Good Governance (GSP+) with regard to the 14 beneficiaries. The next biennial report on the impact of GSP is due in December 2017.

Since 2007, regulations intended to protect the ozone layer have been in place for the importation, sale, resale and use of refrigerants, refrigeration equipment and halons. (…)

Mexico is convinced that we will get nowhere by protecting our domestic markets: on the contrary, we need to increase our interdependence in order to make the global market more efficient, predictable and sustainable.

The Agencia Nacional de Desarrollo Económico (National Economic Development Agency-ANDE), a non-State public corporation, was established under Law No. 18.602 of 21 September 2009 in order to contribute to productive economic development in a sustainable way that has regard to social equity, environmental stability and regional balance

Israel's accession to the OECD was a catalyst for important reforms, for instance, in the area of chemicals management and environmental protection, including cooperation in the fields of green growth strategy and eco-innovation

The CEMAC countries are signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ). Accordingly, the export of these species  is prohibited or subject to authorization.

Permission is required for exports of some timber products and forest resources, related to biodiversity and environment conservation (neo-picrorhiza scrophulariifolia, nardostachys grandiflora, Rauvolfia serpentine, orchids, taxus baccata, dioscorea deltoidea, talauma hodgsonii, and michelia champaca, shorea robusta, accacia catechu, dalbergia latifolia, pterocarpus marsupium, bombax ceiba)

El Salvador allows the import of genetically modified products provided that they comply with the Special Regulations on the safe handling of genetically modified organisms

In addition to the four strategic priorities identified in the National IP Strategic Programme 2011, the green technology plan is part of a long-standing IP-related national strategy. Japan is an industrial giant with very limited natural resources and a very high population density; this generates a strong need for environmental technology to ensure sustainable development of the economy. Promoting environmental technology is an essential part of Japan's IP, energy, and environment policy.