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3.107. Mauritania is not a member of the WTO plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement nor is it an observer. In 2010, a new Government Procurement Code was enacted to regulate the system for awarding public contracts. (...)
The simplified consultation procedure involves arranging a competition, with a reduced technical dossier, between a limited number of providers (at least three). (…) The cases of directly negotiated contracts must be limited to situations of (…) exceptional circumstances when responding to natural disasters, (...)

Mauritania has advantages for the sustainable development of the electricity sector, including reserves of natural gas, wind power potential of 7-9 m/second on average on the coast, and solar energy potential of 3.5-6 kWh/m2/day for eight hours each day

More effective sectoral policies have been implemented under the PRSP action plan and SCAPP in an effort to unleash the growth potential in the leading sectors of the economy and reap the greatest economic and social benefit by making the most effective sustainable use of the resources (...)

In 2016 the Ministry of Fisheries and the Maritime Economy published a final report on the investment framework for sustainable fisheries development in Mauritania 2015 2020 in order to implement the Government's new national strategy for responsible and sustainable fisheries management. (...)

6.1. (...) The reforms set out in the SCAPP include most of the recommendations in the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS).
There are three main messages in the DTIS update: (i) Mauritania should build on its recent macroeconomic progress to break away from its current economic model, which is based on unsustainable revenue from the country's national resources, and make a shift towards a strategy for inclusive green growth; (...)

The policy implemented by the Government involves an ambitious modern infrastructure programme that responds to the country's economic development, environmental and social needs

Mauritania has no domestic regulations concerning GMOs. The authorities have indicated that they comply with the directives of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).

Since 1987, three successive fisheries agreements have been signed with the EU to support the sustainable development of the sector

Between 2015 and 2017, 71 finance agreements were signed with a total value in excess of 55.2 billion new ouguiyas, including 24 agreements for 2017 alone for a sum totalling 29.2 billion new ouguiyas. This significant funding was allocated to implementing priority programmes and projects to create conditions conducive to inclusive, sustainable growth through investment in the following sectors: (...) environment.

Mauritania has a large livestock population of about 20 million head, reflecting the comparative advantage of its vast territory. (…) the heavy concentration of the herd in grazing areas has hastened deforestation and land degradation, thereby speeding up the country's severe desertification. The survival of livestock farming therefore calls for a radical revision of policy in order to take account of the fight against desertification, (...)