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Investments that may adversely affect security, health, or the environment require approval from the competent authorities, such as the National Environmental Management Authority, and the Public Health Authorities, before approvals are granted

Kenya notified some 190 technical regulations to the WTO related, inter alia, to chemicals, and water and waste management

A pre-export verification of conformity (PVoC) programme is carried out to ensure quality of products, health, and safety, and environmental protection for consumers

Kenya is a party to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the International Plant Protection Convention, as well as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), while Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has established an early warning system for detection of pests With support from the Government of the Netherlands, under the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) initiative, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Kenya signed the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in 2000 and fulfilled the ratification requirements in 2003, while in 2006, the Government adopted the Policy on Biotechnology, which stresses the role of biotechnology as a lever for poverty reduction, food security, and conservation of the environment

Until 2008, the regulatory framework for the privatization of public enterprises (PEs) was based on the Policy Paper on Public Enterprises Reform and Privatization, and strategic criteria for exclusion from privatization include national security, health, and environment protection

Plant varieties as provided for in the Seeds and Plant Varieties Act; and inventions contrary to public order, morality, public health and safety, principles of humanity, and environmental conservation are non-patentable

Environmental impact assessment levy is applied to tea producers in Kenya

The Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife is responsible for forestry policy formulation and implementation in order to, inter alia, enhance the integrated rehabilitation and conservation of degraded natural resources; mainstream community and stakeholders participation in protecting, conserve and manage forestry; improve the productivity, and sustainable use of forestry resources, including through the export prohibitions of timber from indigenous tree species

A National Industrialization Policy (NIP) was formulated but not yet officially adopted, recognizes the role of an emerging regional market and the need to harmonize policy interventions at the regional level, including green energy