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4.36. Nicaragua maintains a series of incentives to promote the use of renewable energy sources for electricity generation. The benefits granted include exemptions from, and reductions on, import tariffs, VAT, income tax, municipal tax, stamp duty and taxes on natural resource exploitation. In addition, investors in new generation projects based on renewable sources may, under certain conditions, enter into contracts with distributors without having to participate in a competitive bidding process.

4.89. (...) Protected areas of ecological and tourist interest cover 21.3% of Nicaragua's land space. (...) The country's many attractions include the world's largest island within a freshwater lake, Ometepe, which UNESCO declared a Biosphere Reserve 2010. (...)

2.34. Of economic significance are the provisions of Article 6 which states that "the land except that in citizen's private ownership, as well as the subsoil with its mineral wealth, forests, water resources, and fauna is the public property of the State. The State policy to utilize the natural wealth is based on long-term development policy and aims at guaranteeing the right of every citizen of current and future generations to live in a healthy and safe environment and accumulating the proceeds from the utilization of the mineral resources in the National Wealth Fund which will be distributed fairly and equitably".

2.37. (...) the Government of Mongolia launched a "Mongolian Export" Program. The purpose of the Program is to ensure Mongolia's lasting economic growth through establishing a favourable and sustainable environment for production and export and by step-by-step measures to expand export of non-mining products, to support the export of value-added products, to improve the competitiveness of export products, to facilitate trade, and to increase market access to export products. (...)

2.41. Mongolia jointly with the International Trade Center developed a "Roadmap for Trade and investment of Mongolia" for the purpose of diversification of export products and target markets where eight sectors with an export growth potential such as (...) renewable energy (...) were identified as the priorities.

3.15. As of 2018, the shares in the value-added of the industrial sector were (...) %1.2 – from water supply, sewerage and waste management.

3.19. The communications sector of Mongolia is being developed under the guidance of the policy documents such as "Mongolia's Sustainable Development Vision 2030" (2016-2030), its successor document "Vision 2050" (2020-2050) and "State Policy on Development of Information and Communications Sector" (2017-2025).

3.51. The "State Policy on Development of Tourism" adopted by Government Resolution 333 of 21 August 2019 aims at (...) development of highly productive and sustainable tourism.

4. Mongolia introduced a number of national programmes that address trade policy, including the Action Plan of the Government for 2016-2020, the Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision 2030, and the Action Plan of the Government for 2020-24. (...)

13. Mongolia maintains prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing requirements upon importation. Many reflect its obligations under international conventions such as CITES, the Hague Convention, and the Montreal Protocol. (...)