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Following inspection, entry into the national territory may be authorized if the product conforms to the standards and regulations in force. The inspector may authorize entry under certain conditions (for example, phytosanitary treatment), reject the product or seize and destroy it, if tainted or toxic.

Guinea's institutional framework for sanitary and phytosanitary measures has not changed since its last TPR. It is characterized by a predominance of fragmented regulatory texts that bring various ministries into play without any real coordination. Thus, several ministries, departments and agencies share responsibility for sanitary and phytosanitary controls and environmental protection. These are the Ministry responsible for public health; the Ministries responsible for agriculture and livestock; the Ministry responsible for fishing; the Ministries responsible for trade and industry; and the Ministry responsible for the environment.

The services involved in the process of adoption of SPS standards are as follows:
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• National Directorate of Sanitation and the Living Environment (DNACV);
• Environmental Study and Research Centre (CERE);
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In the autonomous Port of Conakry, the control services of the Ministry responsible for the environment are tasked, inter alia, with overseeing compliance with the international conventions which Guinea has ratified. In principle, they control imports and exports of all chemical products and by products that could be injurious to human health or the environment. However, in practice, the services of the Ministry of the Environment are encountering serious difficulties in performing this task since some exporters and importers are evading the controls and not voluntarily taking certificates except in an emergency.

Guinea has no legislation dealing specifically with GMOs.

(…) It is also party to the (…) Convention on Biological Diversity of 5 January 1992 and its Protocol of 29 October 2010.

(…) Guinea also possesses substantial ligneous forestry resources, which are at risk from uncontrolled exploitation. Exports of ligneous forestry products amounted to 9,000 tonnes of wood in the rough in 2016.

Since 2012, therefore, as part of its National Policy for Agriculture Development: Vision for 2015, the Government has committed to implementing the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP) launched by ECOWAS. (…) The aim of the WAAPP is to sustainably improve agricultural productivity (...) The WAAPP has served, inter alia, to provide improved seeds. (...)

There is nothing in the Land and State Property Code of 1992 on the applicable rural land planning rules for improving agricultural, forestry and livestock production, in particular as regards protection and use of protected areas, listed forests and agricultural, pastoral farming and soil restoration areas. (…)

Despite these natural assets, the sector's contribution to the national economy has significantly diminished since the last TPR in 2011, in particular due to overfishing of several fish stocks, an increasingly weak, under-resourced and ill-adapted governance system, and the lack of investment in sustainable aquaculture. The extent of the overfishing has led to severe depletion of fisheries resources and, consequently, loss of interest in Guinean waters on the part of trading partners.