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Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/214/REV.1 S-IV§168 European Union 2009 Sectors Services
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Local tourism activities aimed at, inter alia, environmental protection benefit from financial support through various EC programmes.
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Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/213; WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 G-I§2; S-I§18; S-II§3 Fiji 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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Adoption of the Sustainable Economic and Empowerment Development Strategy (SEEDS) for 2008-2010 consisting of six policy platforms, including developing social and community outcomes to promote rural development, social equity and environmental sustainability among others.
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Environment
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/213; WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 G-V§74; S-II§24 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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Fiji would like sufficient flexibilities to be accorded to sugar and fisheries through lower tariff cuts and longer transitional periods and the development dimension to be integrated in all areas of the DDA including flexibilities on fisheries subsidies.
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Fish
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-II-Box II.1 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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Fiji (and Papua New Guinea) negotiated an interim EPA on 29 November 2007, operative for Fiji from 2008 (Interim Partnership Agreement Between Pacific States and the EC), under which import/export prohibitions or quantitative restrictions, and export taxes are prohibited unless considered necessary for environmental purposes.
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Environment
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-III§54 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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Fiji is a member of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-III§68 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Export licences, Export quotas
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Exports of controlled ozone-depleting substances of CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform were banned from 2000, and those of HCFC require a permit from the Ministry of Environment and will be banned from 2031 (Ozone Depleting Substances Act, 1998).
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Environment
Soil
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-III§68 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Export licences, Export quotas
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Exports ban or permit required for a wide range of endangered species under the CITES (Fiji Endangered and Protected Species Act, 2002).
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Endangered
MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-III§68 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Export licences, Export quotas
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Exports of round logs are banned for environmental reasons.
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Environment
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-III§69, Table III.5 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Export licences, Export quotas
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Exports of various woods and wood products require a licence.
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Forest
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/213/REV.1 S-IV§24 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Export licences, Export quotas
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Exports of certain fish species are banned due to conservation or environmental reasons.
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Conservation
Environment
Fish
Wildlife