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In the case of mining, for example, the GOM (Government of Myanmar) is implementing measures, such as environmental and social impact assessments, to protect the environment from degradation that may result from mining and related operations. (…)

Table A2. 1 Major trade-related legislation
Subject: Sanitary and phytosanitary requirements
Legislation: Protection of Wildlife, Wild Plants and Conservation of Natural Areas Law 1994
(…)

Table 6.4 Selected WTO activities by topic (including via E-learning), 1995–2013
(end-July)
Topic/Theme: Trade and environment
Number of activities: 9
Number of participants (E-Learning): 24 (15)

The main legislation governing forestry in Myanmar includes the Forest Law (1992), the Environmental Conservation Law 2012, the Protection of Wildlife and Wild Plants and Conservation of Natural Areas Law, and the Foreign Investment Law 2012.

The main objectives of the oil and gas sector include: fulfilling domestic energy demand; promoting energy efficiency and conservation; implementing effective utilization of domestically produced crude oil and natural gas; and promoting more private participation in the energy sector.

Table A2. 2 Main trade-related ministries and agencies
Department/Agency: Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry
Main responsibility: Forest management, wood-based industry development

Antigua and Barbuda is a two-island State in the heart of the Caribbean. The islands together measure approximately 170 square miles with a population of approximately 90,000. The country characteristically a small, open, vulnerable economy: high level of imports, narrow production base, and vulnerability to natural disasters and other exogenous shocks.

Furthermore, although Antigua and Barbuda enjoys a high standard of living, its economy like many small vulnerable economies, is fragile and vulnerable to social and environmental issues which includes the impacts of natural disasters, in particular hurricanes and more recently in this period of review, the incidence of drought.

(…) The Antigua and Barbuda Food and Nutrition Security Policy, issued in 2012, identifies the sector's constraints: low productivity; short-term land tenures; inadequate water supply; credit constraints; loss of arable land to housing construction; lack of storage facilities; high energy and labour costs; and over-exploitation of marine food sources . The sector also faces significant risks from natural disasters such as hurricanes. (…)

(…) The Treaty establishes the OECS Economic Union, a single financial and economic space within which goods, people and capital move freely, monetary and fiscal policies are harmonized and countries continue to adopt a common approach to trade, health, education and environment, as well as to sectoral development in agriculture, tourism and energy. The Revised Treaty of Basseterre has been ratified by all OECS WTO Members; it came into force in January 2011 and replaces the original OECS Treaty of 1981.