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Guinea's institutional framework for sanitary and phytosanitary measures has not changed since its last TPR. It is characterized by a predominance of fragmented regulatory texts that bring various ministries into play without any real coordination. Thus, several ministries, departments and agencies share responsibility for sanitary and phytosanitary controls and environmental protection. These are the Ministry responsible for public health; the Ministries responsible for agriculture and livestock; the Ministry responsible for fishing; the Ministries responsible for trade and industry; and the Ministry responsible for the environment.

Mining operations have an adverse impact on the protection of natural resources. The gold, bauxite and diamond industry has dangerously affected plant cover and water and soil resources, through various types of pollution and disruption. Small-scale gold mining continues to inflict enormous damage on forest cover, the soil and the subsoil, even to the extent of causing water resources to dry up. In view of the harm and risks, and if the current trend is not reversed, Guinea could seriously compromise the balance of its water systems to the detriment of its own population, present or future.

A decree of November 1989 on protection of the marine environment against all forms of pollution lists substances that may not be discharged, as well as those which may be discharged subject to authorization, and prohibits the transit of ships carrying hydrocarbons where there is a high risk of polluting the marine environment

(…) the Guinean Government is continuing to implement its wide-ranging agricultural development and modernization (…) by:
• enhancing the means of production through rational use of forest resources and agricultural inputs to boost farmers' output;
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Three major African and global changes are likely to affect the Guinean digital sector:
• The Millennium Development Goals have been replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which now prioritize climate-change prevention ahead of combating poverty, which involves mobilizing digital technology among half of the world's population;
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(…) Guinea also possesses substantial ligneous forestry resources, which are at risk from uncontrolled exploitation. Exports of ligneous forestry products amounted to 9,000 tonnes of wood in the rough in 2016.

The AGER’s overall mission is to implement the national rural electrification policy defined by the Ministry responsible for energy, by executing the National Rural Electrification Programme (PNER) 2030, which is currently being developed with technical assistance from the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE).

In principle, the quantitative restrictions on exports (including prohibitions) imposed by Guinea are derived from the treaties to which it is party. These are, in particular, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal and the CITES (on protected species). Thus, some products, waste and/or species are subject to an export permit, certificate or prohibition. (...)

Efforts were made, inter alia, to assess the status of stocks, which served as a basis for the annual plans for the development and management of fisheries. (…) Thanks to these various campaigns, it was possible to calculate the biomass and determine the exploitable potential in a scientific manner.

Guinea has an abundance of natural resources, including around one third of the world's reserves of bauxite, as well as deposits of diamonds, gold and iron among other, as well as a coastline rich in fish, vast hydroelectric potential and significant areas suitable for agriculture