Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/274; WT/TPR/S/274/REV.1 |
G-IV§120; S-II§89; S-IV§40-44 |
Nicaragua |
2012 |
Sectors |
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Forestry |
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Presidential Decree No. 69-2008 approved the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Nicaragua's Forestry Sector with the aim of, inter alia, formulating and implementing financing mechanisms for the forestry sector such as the development of markets for payment of wood land-related environmental services, including the promotion of reforestation, the creation of forestry plantations and the promotion of sustainable management initiatives for forestry and agroforestry ecosystems in line with Law No. 462, Law on the Conservation, Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Forestry Sector
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Conservation
Environment
Forest
Sustainable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/274; WT/TPR/S/274/REV.1 |
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Nicaragua |
2012 |
Sectors |
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Energy |
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Law No. 532, Law on the Promotion of Renewable Electricity Generation, published in Official Journal No. 102 of 27 May 2005, lays down incentives for generating projects that draw on the country's renewable energies for the public electricity service in order to broaden public access to energy, especially in rural areas, to generate electricity mainly from renewable sources, and to increase energy savings and efficiencies
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Clean
Conservation
Energy
Renewable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/275; WT/TPR/S/275/REV.2 |
G-I§9; S-II§31 |
United States of America |
2012 |
Trade Policy Framework |
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The 2012 U.S. model bilateral investment treaty (BIT) continues to provide strong investor protections while preserving the government's ability to regulate in the public interest, including strengthen protections relating to labor and the environment
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/275; WT/TPR/S/275/REV.2 |
G-V§130, 142; S-II§38 |
United States of America |
2012 |
Trade Policy Framework |
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The USAID's West Africa Cotton Improvement Program (WACIP) is designed to help achieve various objectives, including reduction soil degradation and expand the use of good agricultural practices; and improve the enabling environment for agricultural biotechnology
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Bio
Environment
Sustainable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/254 |
G-IV§156; S-II§26-27 |
Ecuador |
2011 |
Trade Policy Framework |
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Ecuador has participated actively in the DDA of multilateral trade negotiations whose latest individual or joint submissions relate to TRIPS and TRIPS-related issues (e.g. biological diversity, wines and spirits) and fisheries subsidies, among other issues
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Bio
Climate
Environment
Fish
Organic
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/254; WT/TPR/S/254 |
G-VI§331-334; S-IV§8, 10 |
Ecuador |
2011 |
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Agriculture |
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Under the 2008 Constitution, and the 2009 Law on the Food Security and Sovereignty Regime 10 the Government regulates the use of and access to land, which should comply with social and environmental policy objectives
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Bio
Environment
Indigenous
Natural resources
Sustainable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/254 |
G-VI§369, 382; S-IV§28-29 |
Ecuador |
2011 |
Sectors |
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Mining |
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The main objectives of the May 2011 National Mining Development Plan consist of encouraging the development of the sector in observance of the national interest, and promoting an economically viable, socially just, environmentally responsible, and technically developed mining industry for the rational utilization of mineral resources and the creation of new development areas
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Environment
Natural resources
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/254 |
G-VI§356-359, 363; S-IV§34, 43 |
Ecuador |
2011 |
Sectors |
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Energy |
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Regulation CONELEC 004/04, which entered into force 1 January 2005, encourages investment in the production of renewable energies (biomass, solar, geothermal, and wind energy)
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Keywords
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Bio
Clean
Energy
Environment
Genetic
Natural resources
Renewable
Sustainable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/254 |
G-VI§337-339, 342; S-IV§46, 51, 53 |
Ecuador |
2011 |
Sectors |
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Manufacturing |
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The Automotive Complementary Agreement between Ecuador, Colombia, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela prohibits the import of used motor vehicles and parts, in order to guarantee among other things environmental conservation, while the National Financial Corporation granted preferential credit loans (not exceeding 9.8%) to consumers, in order to trade older vehicles for newer, more environmentally friendly, ones
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Conservation
Energy
Environment
Sustainable
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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/G/248/REV.1; WT/TPR/S/248/REV.1 |
G-III§84; S-IV§8, 14-15, 22, 25, 28 |
European Union |
2011 |
Sectors |
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Agriculture |
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The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) covers, inter alia, funding for rural development programmes (the second pillar of the CAP), which includes assistance to less-favoured areas, investment aids for agriculture and forestry, and payments under environmental programmes
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