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(...) The government's current objectives are to continue opening up the economy to foreign trade, to promote sustainable development, particularly in agriculture, and to develop rural areas, notably through eco-tourism. (...)

A new Constitution was approved by referendum in July 2011 replacing that of 1996 and legislative elections followed on 25 November 2011. (...) Among the new elements, Article 31 of the new Constitution guarantees every citizen access to a healthy environment, water and to sustainable development.

(...) Morocco recently adhered to two further OECD instruments relating to business transparency and green growth.

(...) Morocco has begun negotiations with the EU on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. The Agreement, which will go beyond the historical concept of trade liberalization, covers the following areas: (...) trade and sustainable development. (...)

Under the Morocco United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Morocco is required to publish on the website of the General Secretariat of the Government (SGG), for a period of at least 15 days and for public comment, all draft laws, decrees, orders and/or administrative decisions relating to trade, government procurement, investment, e commerce, intellectual property, the environment and labour matters. The SGG website also contains an electronic version of the Official Journal (OJ), as well as a list of all ministries and their Internet addresses.

Launched in April 2008, the Morocco Green Plan (PMV) aims to develop and modernize the agricultural sector, strengthen its role as a driver of the country's economic growth and improve farmers' incomes. Based on a comprehensive, participative approach, the strategy represents a complete break with the successive agricultural policies of the 1960s and attempts to address agricultural development as a whole, in all its diversity, taking account of its fundamental relationship to rural development and the sustainability of natural resources.

The stated objective of the Plan Maroc Vert (Green Morocco Plan) for sustainable agricultural development is to protect traditional production sectors from foreign competition while fostering international competitiveness of exportable products, and to promote local processing of imported inputs, thereby replacing imports of finished goods in order to narrow the trade deficit. (...)

(...) The Green Morocco Plan (Section 4.1), which aims to foster export oriented and environmentally sustainable agriculture, also shields the sector from foreign competition.

Since the previous review of Morocco's trade policy in 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Fisheries (MAPM) has launched the Green Morocco Plan 2008 2020 (PMV), designed to make Morocco's agriculture a driver of economic and social development. This programme is intended, inter alia, to enhance agricultural productivity and the availability of high quality food products, boost employment and rural incomes, slow the pace of urbanization, increase international competitiveness, and improve the sustainability of agricultural practices and environmental protection, in particular by using water more economically and combating desertification. To implement this programme, the share of the Moroccan Government's investment budget allocated to agriculture increased from 4% in 2008 to 13% in 2014 and 2015.

Other taxes are levied on imports and domestic production: (...) an environmental tax on wood and articles of local and imported wood (12% or 6% ); (...)