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3.79. According to the Investment Charter and the law governing incentives for private investment in Cameroon, technical or financial support may be provided to promote investment, with the aim of ensuring sustainable growth and creating employment. (...)

3.107. Cameroon has had a National Biosafety Committee (NABIC) in place since 1997, the mission of which is to organize and coordinate activities related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The country ratified the Cartagena Protocol in February 2003.

3.108. Law No. 2003/006 of 21 April 2003 introducing a modern biotechnological safety regime in Cameroon, and its implementing Decree No. 2007/0737/PM of 31 May 2007, regulate the development, improvement, use (including use in a confined manner), manipulation and cross border movement (including transit) of all GMOs. In terms of biosafety, Cameroon seeks to use its legal and regulatory framework to ensure the environmentally risk free application of modern biotechnology to medicine, agriculture and the environment, and to prevent risks to human health and modern security.

3.109. This legislation [3.108. Law No. 2003/006 of 21 April 2003 ] provides that the import, sale and confined use of GMOs and their derivative products require prior authorization from the Ministry of Environment after an opinion has been received from NABIC. Apart from those being tested on cotton, the import of GMOs is currently prohibited. Imports of plant products require a "Non GMO Certificate". In the case of suspected fraud, a sample may be taken and analysed before the final decision is made.

3.133. Pursuant to the Code [Government Procurement ], bidders must be in compliance with the requirements of the tax and parafiscal departments. Government procurement must be executed in the light of social, economic and environmental considerations and so as to promote local employment, decent working conditions and, where relevant, the achievement of sustainable development goals.

3.144. Cameroon is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI). It has been a contracting party to the Convention on Biological Diversity since 11 September 2003 and has in principle applied the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) since 1 January 2000.

4.4. Cameroonian agriculture has enormous potential, enabling it to contribute effectively to wealth creation, employment and food security. It benefits from a climate and natural conditions highly favourable to agricultural production. (...)

4.5. Its enormous potential notwithstanding, Cameroonian agriculture continues to be disadvantaged by structural weaknesses associated in particular with low farm productivity, difficult access to markets and credit, limited organization among actors, a deteriorating natural environment and an underdeveloped legal and regulatory environment.

4.6. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER), the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (MINEPIA), the Ministry of Forests and Fauna (MINFOF) and the Ministry of the Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) are responsible for designing agricultural development programmes – which also encompass livestock, fisheries and forests – in cooperation with farmers' organizations and development partners.

4.9. Cameroon's agricultural strategy as described by the Rural Sector Development Strategy (SDSR) 2020‑30 is aimed at: (...) (v) ensuring better use and sustainable management of natural capital, the basis for agricultural production.