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Mauritania has advantages for the sustainable development of the electricity sector, including reserves of natural gas, wind power potential of 7-9 m/second on average on the coast, and solar energy potential of 3.5-6 kWh/m2/day for eight hours each day

Under Law No. 2005-030 containing the Water Resources Code, the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation (MHA) has the task of designing and implementing national water policies and of ensuring the follow-up to all issues related to the building and operation of works for the protection, transport and distribution of drinking water, as well as works for collecting, channelling and treating waste water

Despite being one of the richest countries in water resources, Nepal is facing severe energy crisis at present and aims to pursue development of its hydro resources in a cost efficient manner in order to be able to completely transform the economy

Nepal bound all but 54 tariff lines at the HS 8-digit level, mainly for arms, cement, some parts and components of automobiles, and petroleum oil, for revenue collection and environment protection reasons

The Export and Import Control Act 1957 provides that the Government may impose import and export restrictions or prohibitions for the objectives of protecting national security, maintaining public morals, conserving exhaustible natural resources (in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption), and ensuring the availability of raw materials essential for domestic processing industries with potential for competitive capacity

Products banned from exportation include, inter alia, protected wildlife, protected body parts of wildlife, and endangered wildlife, as well as forest resources related to biodiversity and environment conservation

Permission is required for exports of some timber products and forest resources, related to biodiversity and environment conservation (neo-picrorhiza scrophulariifolia, nardostachys grandiflora, Rauvolfia serpentine, orchids, taxus baccata, dioscorea deltoidea, talauma hodgsonii, and michelia champaca, shorea robusta, accacia catechu, dalbergia latifolia, pterocarpus marsupium, bombax ceiba)

Export taxes are levied on some products to protect environment (discourage environment degradation), ensure food security, and discourage trade diversion to neighbouring countries (such as India)

If batteries used in equipment generating energy from solar power are produced and supplied by any domestic industry, or if any machinery, equipment, tools and their spare parts, penstock pipes or iron sheets required for hydro-power projects are produced and supplied by any domestic industry, zero rate VAT is applied to that industry on that transaction

The Government may issue licences, control the sale, fix the cost of purchase, or regulate or restrict commercial or economic transactions of these essential commodities for various reasons, including environment considerations (e.g. mineral items such as gravel, boulders, and sand)