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The sector is mainly governed by the Law on tourism (LTUR) and its implementing Regulations (2012) , together with the regulations issued by the MITUR. The Law on tourism defines the powers of the MITUR, establishes specific taxes to support the sector and creates a National Tourism Register. El Salvador's National Tourism Policy, published in 2013, contains the strategic guidelines for the sector, which include cross cutting governance, knowledge management and transparency, entrepreneurship, diversification and sustainability of tourist destinations, and competitive positioning.

In 2014, the Inter American Development Bank approved a US$25 million loan to boost tourism development in El Salvador. The funds are being invested in the construction of tourism infrastructure in the coastal marine strip, including port repairs, construction of wharves, promenades and bicycle paths, and the creation of a biodiversity museum.

Fisheries industry plays an important role in maintaining food security of the Russian Federation, conservation of aquatic biological resources and improvement of population life quality.

The Program (the State Program for development of fish industry) is mainly focused on the development of commercial fish farming (aquaculture), infrastructural development of fisheries industry (capital investments), application of new technologies, and ensuring the transition from raw materials export to innovative type of development based on conservation, reproduction and rational use of aquatic biological resources.

According to the Program, provision of internal market with aquatic biological resources is planned to be performed through development of aquaculture. This process is to be implemented by means of technological production modernization and building of innovative system in aquaculture sector. Development of aquaculture is designed to ensure positive dynamics of artificial reproduction of aquatic biological resources.

Russia's industrial policy is based on the following fundamental principles: (...) use of material, financial, labour and natural resources in a rational way; (...) implementing resource-saving and ecologically safe technologies.

The Russian Federation has the largest forest area in the world but the sector faces several problems, including weak infrastructure development, depletion of resources in traditional harvesting areas, and lack of capacity to use low-grade resources. A policy of intensive forest use and forest reproduction is being implemented. The Russian Federation is one of the biggest fishing nations in the world. A policy of fisheries management is being operated and enforced through a total allowable catch system based on scientific data on reserves of species.

A key priority of the Russian Federation is to diversify its economy away from its abundant mineral and energy resources. It is the world's second-largest oil and gas producer, the fourth largest producer of electricity, and has become one of the most energy-intensive economies. A strategic goal has been set to reduce the energy intensity of GDP by 40% by 2020 through energy saving, improving efficiency, eliminating regulatory constraints, and encouraging the development of renewable energy, including geothermal, solar and wind energy. Despite the significan fall in oil prices in recent years, oil-related activities still contribute some 20% to GDP, represent two thirds of merchandise exports, and just under half of federal government revenues.

The main objectives of the Russian Federation's trade policy are to help modernize its economy, foster its global competitiveness, and create favorable conditions for its continuous growth and sustainable development. (...)

The Russian Federation had a nominal GDP of around US$1,326 billion in 2015. It is the largest nation covering more than one eighth of the world's inhabited area, and has a wide range of landforms with abundant mineral, energy, forest, and water resources. It is also the world's second-largest oil and gas producer, the fourth-largest producer of electricity, and has become one of the most energy-intensive economies (section 4.3.3). [1] (...)

[1] In 2008, the authorities set a strategic goal to reduce energy intensity of GDP by 40% by 2020 through energy saving, improving efficiency and eliminating regulatory constraints. OECD (2014).