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Efforts have also been made in the construction sector to promote the incorporation of energy efficiency measures and to reduce energy consumption by insulating roofs and walls and promoting the use of more energy efficient machinery and equipment, among other things.

Agriculture continues to play an important economic and social role in Tunisia through its contribution to achieving national goals in the areas of economic growth, food security, job creation, regional and rural development, curbing the rural exodus, increasing export revenue, and conservation and development of natural resources.

These extremely important reforms are now urgent and inescapable in view of the mounting risks associated with scarce, vulnerable natural resources; climate change; and markets for factors of production and agricultural products, especially with regard to price volatility. They will be implemented as part of the first post revolution agriculture and fisheries development plan 2016 2020, which will focus on the seven strategic priority areas set out below:
- conservation and development of natural resources, and more rational exploitation thereof with a view to sustainability and mitigation of the effects of climate change;
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- promotion of the fisheries, crop and livestock production subsectors, and enhancement of their competitiveness and sustainability while prioritizing the promotion of high value agriculture and thus facilitating better development of agricultural products (organic agriculture, geographical indications and precision agriculture);
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In order to meet these goals, Tunisia intends to roll out projects to increase phosphate production capacity from 8 million tonnes in 2010 to 13 million tonnes in 2020, equivalent to increasing its share in the global market from 4.5% to 5.3% while at the same time trying to implement the following key projects:
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-implementation of an environmental upgrade programme that brings existing industrial units into conformity with the environmental standards in force;
- construction of seawater desalination plants in order to conserve groundwater in the Gabès and (ultimately) Gafsa regions.

At the same time, in order to minimize the effects on trade of measures to protect human and animal health and life, plants and the environment, two draft laws on the safety of food and industrial products provide for a risk management system of market supervision that emphasizes post clearance inspection of imported goods (at market) rather than at the border.

In addition to the successful Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, good results were achieved multilaterally at the end of last year through the adoption at the United Nations of the 2030 sustainable development agenda, and the agreement reached at the Paris Conference on Climate Change, demonstrating the international community's ability to negotiate and secure important multilateral outcomes.

(...) Phosphate products under public monopoly, which are also important to exports, are currently encountering significant environmental problems: waste disposal at sea needs to be upgraded to comply with domestic and international standards. Meanwhile, in the fisheries sector, Tunisia has imposed biological recovery requirements.

Table 2.1 Trade related laws and regulations published since 2005
Area (Section of the report): Electricity (4.3.3)
Instrument/text: Law No. 12 2015 of 11 May 2015 on electricity generation using renewable energy
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Many old laws are still in force despite numerous amendments or partial repeals. For example, Law No. 94 41 excludes from the free foreign trade regime all products which affect security, public order, hygiene, health, morality, protection of fauna and flora and the country's cultural heritage (Section 3.1.4).

Four new taxes have been introduced since 2005: the environmental protection tax, the tax to promote the creation of literature and the arts, the tax on second hand engines and spare parts, and the tax on lamps and tubes.