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Antigua and Barbuda enacted the Plant Protection Act of 2012 and the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Act of 2008. (…) The Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Act of 2008 contains the main provisions with respect to the registration, import, sale, transport, disposal, control, and inspection of pesticides. The Act establishes the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (under the Ministry of Agriculture), which is in charge of implementing the Act. The Board is responsible for, inter alia considering applications for registration; granting or revoking licences; approving research permits; and certifying pest-control operators.

Box 2.1 Trade negotiating objectives, 2015 TPA
Thirteen trade negotiating objectives of the United States are defined in the 2015 Trade Promotion Authority:
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v. to ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive and to seek to protect and preserve the environment and enhance the international means of doing so, while optimizing the use of the world's resources;
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vii. to seek provisions in trade agreements under which parties to those agreements ensure that they do not weaken or reduce the protections afforded in domestic environmental and labour laws as an encouragement for trade;
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Cabo Verde still applies an open and general import licensing system, which was implemented in order to control the import of products that may adversely affect the country's environment and safety and people's health. Cabo Verde has a long tradition in the implementation and management of its import licensing system.

The Commission regularly publishes the State Aid Scoreboard which is based on annual reports by the member States under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 794/2004. According to the Scorecard, non-crisis-related state aid in 2013 was €63 billion. The biggest categories were environmental protection, regional development, research, and development and innovation, and the agricultural sector. In addition, €42 billion in aid was provided for rail transport (€19 billion for public service obligations and pensions, and €23 billion for infrastructure and other aid) (Table 3.11).

Gabon ranks ninth in the Environmental Performance Index for Africa.

The authorities consider that the revision of the Investment Catalogue denotes an important effort to comprehensively open up the Chinese economy to foreign investment. According to the information supplied by the authorities, the 2015 Catalogue includes a total of 423 entries, 48 less than the 2011 Catalogue. The authorities also noted that the number of restricted sectors was reduced from 79 in 2011 to 39 in 2015; while the number of encouraged sectors remained mainly unchanged (Box 2.2; Table A2.3; and Table A2.4). The revised Catalogue aims at channelling FDI towards industries that require restructuring through the use of new equipment and new and greener technologies. According to the authorities, the 2015 Catalogue was revised to open the economy mainly in the services sector but also in manufacturing; the revision is intended to promote the use of foreign investment in a more efficient manner.

The authorities state that Jordan does not prohibit any products from exportation, except to fulfil international obligations such as for nuclear weapons and chemical products, and those on endangered species. Jordan is a contracting party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The increasing scarcity of natural resourcesas a result of the world's growing population and changes in consumption patterns will make the question ofresources even more important in the future. This issue of resources is exacerbated by climate change, over-exploitation of ecosystems and non- renewable resources , the limited reserves of fossil fuels and awareness that the cost of nuclear energy is not what it was made out to be. Switzerland, which has few raw materials, is therefore particularly affected in this respect.

Israel's trade policy objectives are as follows: (1) Continued integration of the Israeli economy into the global trading system, through the use of policy instruments that relate to (…) environment (…)

(…) The various challenges of crop production in Pakistan include insufficient irrigation, limited adoption of modern farming techniques, various plant pests, irregular rainfall, inadequate storage facilities, low-quality seeds, farm fragmentation, and natural disasters such as the 2010 flooding.