Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-Table-III.11 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Export tariffs |
Forestry |
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Table 3.11 Principal export taxes in WAEMU member States, 2017
MS Type of export tax or levy
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Côte d'Ivoire Timber and some ligneous products: 1%, 2%, 3%, 10%, 15% or 49% depending on the species
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WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§89 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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(...) All member States have individually acceded to the CITES Convention (section 3.3.3).
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WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§93 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Technical regulation or specifications |
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In 2009, the Commission adopted two texts implementing the Regulation, relating to the sanitary safety of animals, then in 2013 two other implementing texts on coordination and cooperation mechanisms (section 3.3.2.6 below) as part of the implementation of the Union Agricultural Policy (PAU) and with the aim of organizing a strategy at regional level consistent with international requirements, notably with the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). Pursuant to the 2007 Regulation, the Commission and member States also undertake to prepare community and national texts based on the standards of the Codex Alimentarius, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and those established under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§105 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Other measures |
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In addition, this community framework calls on member States to ratify the pertinent major international conventions, to base their national regulations on the latters' provisions, and to harmonize approval terms and criteria, including those on labelling, packaging and storage of approved pesticides. Five lists have to be drawn up for this purpose: approved pesticides or those with a provisional sales authorization; banned pesticides; pesticides whose toxicity is monitored; those "strictly regulated"; and those deemed to be approved in each member State. Member States have also ratified the Rotterdam, Stockholm, Basel and Bamako Conventions (section 3.3.3). In implementing these Conventions, however, member States are mainly constrained by the lack of human, material and financial resources.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§108 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Import licences, Other environmental requirements |
Agriculture |
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The CREVU (WAEMU's Regional Catalogue of Plant Species and Plant Varieties) catalogue provides for the possibility of approving genetically modified varieties (GMOs). Nevertheless, the regulations on agricultural products derived from biotechnology, particularly use of GMOs in human and animal food, have not been harmonized, although community regulations are planned. In some countries, the sale and growing of genetically modified products, as well as the import of GMO derived products, requires authorization from the competent authorities (see Annexes by country). National seed committees have been set up, in Senegal in particular in 1997, in Burkina Faso in 2012, and in Côte d'Ivoire in 2013.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§117 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Other measures |
Chemicals, Energy, Other |
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Having adopted measures to harmonize the regulations on protection of the ozone layer in 2005 , WAEMU has had a Common Environmental Improvement Policy (PCAE) since 2008. In addition to provisions on sustainable management of natural resources and addressing environmental issues, the text proclaims the member States' commitment to harmonize and standardize their environmental technical regulations. The PCAE also provides for the implementation of appropriate modes of production, consumption and economic use of natural resources, in particular through the promotion of renewable energy (section 4.2.2). Member States have all ratified the major trade related environmental protection conventions :
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants;
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade;
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal;
• Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Protocol;
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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Natural resources
Sustainable
Environment
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Energy
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MEAs
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§118 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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Other measures |
Other |
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All WAEMU member States have individually acceded to the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Niger and Togo have ratified it, and Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire apply the related commitments (see Annexes by country).
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§119 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
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In connection with implementation of the WAEMU regional biosafety programme, regulations on preventing biotechnological risks were endorsed in February 2015, jointly with ECOWAS and the CILSS. The regulations apply to any use, trade in, transit and handling of modified live organisms and/or their by products which might have a negative impact on the environment, in particular, on the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity, or on human or animal health, with the exception of pharmaceuticals.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§120 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Measures |
Ban/Prohibition |
Manufacturing |
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In order to harmonize management of environmental and sanitary risks caused by plastic waste, WAEMU is adopting regulations to prohibit the production, sale and use of plastic bags and the plastic materials or products of which they are composed. Similar measures have been introduced at national level (see Annexes by country).
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-IV§9 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Sectors |
General environmental reference |
Fisheries |
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The fisheries and aquaculture sector occupies a strategic position in the economies of the WAEMU countries in terms of both earnings and food security. In general, the small scale and industrial fishing fleets of the member States receive little or no support from their governments, which derive substantial income from the sale of fishing rights. The problems affecting the West African fisheries sector include :
• illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) overfishing affecting the majority of fish species and simultaneously threatening food security, marine ecological balances and the member States' foreign trade potential for these products;
• the nonconformity of most of the locally processed products with the health regulations of the main export markets, such as the EU; and
the loss of earnings associated with the sale of fishing licences without local enhancement of the value of the catch.
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