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Other Green Box measures applied by Costa Rica relate to decoupled income support (temporary unemployment subsidy programme for small producers adversely affected by the national emergency due to a tropical storm 236 ), investment aid, environmental programmes and regional assistance measures.

The study suggests that trade liberalization and the elimination of price controls, accompanied by the effective application of competition policy, would contribute to food security by reducing domestic prices and would send out market signals calculated to achieve a better allocation of resources to more productive and environmentally friendly activities.

Law No. 7508 of 9 May 1995 introduced a second regime of private participation in the generation of electricity ("Chapter II", an addition to Law No. 7200). Under this regime, which resembles a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) scheme, plants which generate energy of hydraulic, geothermal or wind origin or from some other non-conventional source can have an installed capacity of up to 50 MW and the maximum period of operation is 20 years, after which the assets of the power station must be transferred to the ICE. The same law authorizes the ICE to buy energy from these plants up to an additional 15% of the limit authorized by Law No. 7200. These purchases are made under a competitive bidding procedure and ARESEP grants the respective operating concessions to the power stations to which the ICE awards contracts.

ARESEP also fixes the price at which the ICE buys privately generated energy. In the case of generators operating under Chapter I of Law No. 7200, since 2012 ARESEP has established tariffs based on cost structures by type of energy source and under the price band system. In the case of electricity generating plants operating under Chapter II, the tariffs are determined as a result of the tendering process, since the selection is based on the cost of the energy .

Faced with the need to increase the supply of electrical energy , the ICE has recently reactivated the granting of energy purchase contracts to new private sector plants after more than ten years of suspension. In August 2012, the ICE put out to tender the purchase of 100 MW of wind power and 40 MW of hydroelectric power and received offers for 360 MW.

Law No. 8829 of 3 May 2010 amended Law No. 7447 (Law Regulating the Rational Use of Energy of 13 December 1994) and established exemptions from payment of the selective consumption, ad valorem and sales taxes on a list of equipment and materials (solar water heaters, photovoltaic power-generating panels, fluorescent lamps, wind-powered generators, etc.), both imported and domestic, with a view to encouraging rational and efficient energy use.

On 26 November 2012 the President of the Republic and the Minister of the Environment and Energysigned an Executive Decree declaring the activity of importing, using and distributing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be in the public interest. The objective of this measure is to promote the use of LNG by the ICE and the industrial sector, as it generates fewer emissions and is cheaper than oil.

Three CEMAC countries (Cameroon, the Congo, CAR) have finalized Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) within the framework of the European FLEGT ( forest;  Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) initiative. Where Gabon is concerned, the process is in its final stage.

 In short, by 2025, at sectoral policy level (4.1) CEMAC will be a triple power: an energy power (4.1.1), a metallurgical power (4.1.2) and a green power (4.1.3), while at trade policy level (4.2), certain reforms will be undertaken, in accordance with the agenda (4.3), the components (4.4) and the implementation strategy (4.5.) described below.

The diversified potential of the green economy subsectors (forestry, agriculture and agrifood industries, livestock and fishing ) will be fully utilized, while seeking to ensure the sustainable management of resources and the preservation of the environment , as well as international recognition for the Congo forest;  basin as a major carbon sink, together with fair remuneration for its role in carbon capture.