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It is prohibited to import products that may endanger, inter alia, public health, animal and plant health, and prior authorizations from the competent public body are required for products subject to sanitary and phytosanitary, environmental, safety or any other type of control

The National Accreditation Agency (ONA) is currently governed by Law No. 2.279/03 of 26 June 2003 and its principal task is to accredit testing and calibration laboratories and bodies that certify products, quality management or environmental management systems, and individuals

Law No. 3.742/09 on the control of phytosanitary products for agricultural use determines the legal regime for registration and control of all phytosanitary products for agricultural use as of their entry into Paraguay, for example, synthesis, formulation, fractioning, transport, storage, labelling, marketing, advertising, application, elimination of residues and final disposal of the empty containers, and out-of-date pesticides, in order to protect human, animal, plant and environmental health

Activities related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are governed by Decree No. 12.706 of 13 August 2008 maintaining a consultative body for biosafety which is now entitled "Agricultural and Forestry Biosafety Commission" (COMBIO), composed of representatives of the MSPBS, MIC, SENACSA, SENAVE, the National University of Asunción and SEAM

Most of the export prohibitions, restrictions or licensing applied by Paraguay are for environmental or safety reasons, such as the Law No. 96/92 banning the hunting, commercial exploitation or export of wild animals without the express authorization of SEAM in order to protect Paraguay's biodiversity

A prior export authorization is required to satisfy the requirements of multilateral environmental agreements ratified by Paraguay such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste s and their Disposal

The maquila regime consists of subcontracting in Paraguay for processing and export, the only limitations being imposed by national, departmental and municipal urban development plans and environmental criteria

A number of changes to the legal regime governing IPRs were introduced, including the Law No. 1.630 of 21 November 2000 and amendments thereto in Law No. 2.593 of 17 June 2005 exempting from patents plants and animals, with the exception of microorganisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals that are not biological or microbiological processes; products or processes that are included in the state of the art; and inventions whose commercial exploitation must be prevented in order to protect public order, morality, human, animal or plant life or health and the environment

Soil conservation and recovery programmes are being maintained, including direct sowing, crop rotation, compost and the use of agrochemicals

Law No. 3.464/08 established the National Forestry Institute (INFONA) as an autonomous entity linked with the Executive through the MAG, responsible for formulating and implementing forestry policy with a view to promoting development, supervising the extraction, processing and marketing of forest products, and promoting plans for, among other things, forestation, reforestation and forest education