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In March 2018, the Minister of Transport launched a review of CPAs with a view to optimizing their role in the transportation system. The review is focused on four key themes: innovation and trade logistics (including safety and security components), partnering with Indigenous peoples, sustainability and port communities, and port governance. (...)

Costa Rica supports all efforts to bring the negotiations on fisheries subsidies to a satisfactory conclusion by the end of 2019, (...), with a view to the prohibition of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing and the elimination of subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by 2020. [2]
[2] 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Goal 14.6.

Costa Rica has continuously committed to strengthening the SEN, (...) within both the public and private sectors. (...) leading to a more efficient use of resources, improves the formulation and monitoring of public policy, and enhances the knowledge of national realities in various sectors (economic, social and environmental).

Costa Rica notified the WTO that during the period 2013-17 it did not grant any export subsidies for agricultural products and that domestic support provided to agriculture included: research, extension and advisory services; pest and disease control programmes; marketing and promotion services; and environmental programmes.

(…) Costa Rica promotes sustainable, innovative and inclusive tourism. Foreigners may provide any kind of tourism service in Costa Rica.

The contribution of agriculture to the GDP (including livestock, forestry and fishing) has remained relatively stable during the period under review.(...) In addition, the growth rate of the sector during the period under review was variable due to several factors, including the limited availability of land, which has led to the use of less fertile soils, and the impact of climate change, which has had a direct impact on agricultural production yields.

(...) The minister in charge, with advice from the coordinating bodies, formulates and implements policies that enhance the development of agricultural and rural activities, ensuring the protection of the environment and productive resources, as a means of improving the quality of life, especially in rural areas, and of promoting greater and better integration into domestic and international markets.

Principal agricultural legislation
Title Number and date Most recent amendment
Law on Land Use, Management and Conservation
Implementing regulations for the Law on Land Use, Management and Conservation

Law on the Development, Promotion and Fostering of Organic Farming
Implementing regulations for the Law on the Development, Promotion and Fostering of Organic Farming
Organic Law on the Environment Law No. 7554 of 4 October 1995 2018

Domestic support to the agricultural sector, 2013 2017
Support allocation 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Environmental programmes 967.7 890.9 852.3 939.5 1,278.2

The Geology and Mines Directorate (DGM) of MINAE is the entity responsible for mining policy and for governing the sector. Its objective is to contribute to the country's development through the rational exploitation of mining resources, which ensures a balance between social and environmental needs.