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The situation with respect to sanitary and phytosanitary controls is characterized by the presence of several different services without proper coordination, including, inter alia, the Ministry in charge of fisheries, for fishery product quality control via the Fishery Product Promotion Directorate (DPPP); and the Ministry of Rural Development and the Environment (MDRE), for phytosanitary and animal health controls, applied by the Agriculture and Livestock Directorates, respectively

Mauritania is (…) party to the (…) Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ratified in 2004. (…)

Under Law No. 2005-030 containing the Water Resources Code, the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation (MHA) has the task of designing and implementing national water policies and of ensuring the follow-up to all issues related to the building and operation of works for the protection, transport and distribution of drinking water, as well as works for collecting, channelling and treating waste water

The overall objectives in the fisheries sector are as follows: (i) optimizing management and sustainable revenue, (…)

In April 2012, in Nouakchott, Mauritania ratified the Convention for Cooperation in the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Atlantic Coast of the West, Central and Southern African Region (Abidjan Convention).

The recent Association Agreement between Mauritania and the ECOWAS Member States (Section 2.3.2.1) was necessary to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between West Africa and the European Union, Mauritania being one of the 79 ACP countries with which the European Union concluded the Cotonou Agreement, (...) Mauritania is one of the 16 States of the "West Africa" group in the regional EPA negotiations; however, it had not yet signed the EPA by the end of March 2018. A €195 million National Indicative Programme 2014 2020 has been signed between Mauritania and the EU within this framework. Its three main thrusts are food security and sustainable agriculture; (...)

Aid for trade provided by the World Bank is targeted on the mining sector, and on sustainable development and water supply

3.107. Mauritania is not a member of the WTO plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement nor is it an observer. In 2010, a new Government Procurement Code was enacted to regulate the system for awarding public contracts. (...)
The simplified consultation procedure involves arranging a competition, with a reduced technical dossier, between a limited number of providers (at least three). (…) The cases of directly negotiated contracts must be limited to situations of (…) exceptional circumstances when responding to natural disasters, (...)

Mauritania has advantages for the sustainable development of the electricity sector, including reserves of natural gas, wind power potential of 7-9 m/second on average on the coast, and solar energy potential of 3.5-6 kWh/m2/day for eight hours each day

More effective sectoral policies have been implemented under the PRSP action plan and SCAPP in an effort to unleash the growth potential in the leading sectors of the economy and reap the greatest economic and social benefit by making the most effective sustainable use of the resources (...)