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Table 3.9 Export permits
Product: Chemicals
Export Permit Issuing Agency: Environmental Protection Agency

3.54. The following exports are prohibited: narcotics; parrots; bank notes or coins of more than GHS 5,000; round logs (12 species including Rosewood, Section 4.1.3); rattan canes and bamboo, which may be exported only in processed form such as rattan furniture or baskets; obscene or pornographic materials; ferrous scrap metal (Section 4.3); and goods prohibited by any other laws or conventions, such as the CITES [28] . [28] GRA, Export Restrictions and Prohibitions. Viewed at: https://gra.gov.gh/customs/export-restrictions-and-prohibitions/.

Table 3.10 Selected tax incentives, 2022
Activity: Waste processing and recycling
Incentive: 1% income tax rate for the first seven years

3.81. Since the previous Review in 2014, Ghana submitted 13 notifications to the WTO TBT Committee. These concern mainly cocoa, motor vehicle safety, energy efficiency, electrical wiring, and Ghana's conformity assessment and certification programme (Table 2.2). (...)

Table 3.11 Imports subject to prior authorization or conformity assessment procedures
Products: Chemical and allied products
Permit issuing body: GSA and Environmental Protection Agency

Table 3.11 Imports subject to prior authorization or conformity assessment procedures
Products: Wildlife, e.g. reptiles
Permit issuing body: Department of Game and Wildlife

Table 3.11 Imports subject to prior authorization or conformity assessment procedures
Products: Nets and traps for animals
Permit issuing body: the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)

Table 3.11 Imports subject to prior authorization or conformity assessment procedures
Products: Mercury
Permit issuing body: MOTI/Inspector of Mines

3.101. The Environmental Protection Agency regulates, inter alia, imports, exports, manufacture, distribution, sale, and use of pesticides. An Invasive Alien Species Secretariat (IAS MOFA) was established and comprises experts from the PPRSD, the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other entities .

3.102. Ghana's National Biosafety Act (Act 831) entered into force in 2011. The Law aims to regulate biotech activities including use, releases into the environment, and placement in the market, as well as exports, imports, and transit of genetically modified organisms. The National Biosafety Authority functions as a coordinating agency, while monitoring and enforcement are done by other regulatory agencies. The WTO SPS Committee was notified of the draft Biosafety (Management of Biotechnology) Regulations under Act 831, which were adopted in 2019 (L.I. 2383). According to industry reports, there are currently no restrictions on imports of genetically modified products or products containing GM material.