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The National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) is the State agency responsible for regulating and controlling fishing and promoting the sustainable use of fisheries and aquaculture resources

The Ministry of National Defence, through the National Coastguard, also responsibilities in the sector relating to navigation, maritime safety and pollution prevention, among other issues

The first National Plan for Sustainable Tourism 2009-2020 establishes five strategic objectives for Uruguayan tourism over the next decade, including the development of a tourism model that is sustainable in economic, environmental and socio-cultural terms

The 12th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China (referred to as the 12th Five-Year Plan) identifies, among others, ten policy directions for economic and social development, including the enhancement of incentive and restraining mechanisms for energy conservation and emission reduction

In the face of increasingly aggravating resources and environmental constraints in the course of economic development, the Chinese Government has always considered pushing forward energy conservation and pollution reduction and accelerating industrial restructuring by closing down outdated production capacities for the purpose of conserving energy and reducing pollution, and adopting more strict protective exploitation policies and environment protection standards on non- renewable resources such as bauxite, tungsten, antimony, tin and rare earth in in order to promote conservation, reasonable and efficient exploitation and utilization of resources, protection of ecological environment and sustainable economic and social development

In April 2010, the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Improving the Use of Foreign Investment, by encouraging foreign investment to go, inter alia, to new sources of energy and energy-saving and environment protecting industries

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has the main responsibility for policy coordination and implementation of all trade-related issues, while the ministries of Agriculture; Environmental Protection; and Land and Resources, among others, participate in China's trade policy formulation

A revised Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (2011 version), which entered into force on 30 January 2012, added 44 subsectors and projects, including services of marine oil pollution clean-up technology and new-energy automobiles, and encouraged less polluting projects, while restricting, and prohibiting projects over-exploiting scarce natural resources, and tending to harm the environment

China's preshipment inspection (PSI) requirements are defined in the revised Implementing Regulations of the Law on Import and Export Commodity Inspection, and are intended, inter alia, to protect the environment

With a view to reducing energy consumption and protecting the environment, the Government may not grant preferential treatment under processing trade to certain goods