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The Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) aims to serve as a missing link for all Asian sub-regions to create strategic partnerships and cooperation in various issues, including energy, agriculture and biotechnology

The Korea-United States (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) improves conditions with respect to, inter alia, labour and environmental standards, while the Korea-European Union FTA covers diverse services sectors including environmental services as well as trade and sustainable development issues

No FDI restrictions are allowed, unless they threaten, inter alia, environmental preservation, or under other legislation, such as the Fisheries Act, and Maritime Act, while foreigners, regardless of residence status, may purchase land subject to the same restrictions as Korean nationals, exluding land of environmental significance, among other things

Import licence are applied among other to comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Import licensing requirements and prohibitions are maintained mostly for, inter alia, the protection of animal and plant life, and natural resources, environmental conservation or essential security interests in compliance with domestic legislation requirements or international commitments

The Korean standardization system consists of technical regulations (mandatory standards) developed by ministries and government agencies, as well as standards (voluntary) covering various sectors, including environment, while the Korea Accreditation System participates in the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) for Environmental Management Systems

Environmental risk assessments (ERAs) are mandatory on biotechnology crops, including mandatory safety assessments to evaluate genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in products used for human consumption as well as reviews of environmental risks of living modified organisims (LMOs) in line with the the Convention on Biological Diversity, while Korea's legislation on the marketing of genetically modified agricultural products (GMAPs), such as seeds and grains (Act on Transboundary Movement of Genetically Modified Organisms), apply equally to domestic and imported GMAPs

In the case of organically processed foods, only four overseas certification bodies are recognized by the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (as of late 2011) in conformity with the 2009 Guideline on Management of the Certification System for Organically Processed Foods, including the decision to stop issuing new certification for low pesticide organic agricultural products in esponse to consumer demand for a higher standard of environment-friendly agricultural products

Despite the lack of domestic price preferences, government procurement is used as an instrument of economic policy for promoting, inter alia, green purchasing of environment-friendly products in line with the Government's Low Carbon Green Growth policy

Export prohibitions, affecting 11 six-digit HS items, protect animal rights (dog furskins and their products), endangered species (whale meat and its products), and preserve natural resources (uncut pieces of natural granite stones)