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Proposals for commercial logging or for sawmills must undergo an Environmental Impact Assessment (Environment Management Act, 2004).

Exports ban or permit required for a wide range of endangered species under the CITES (Fiji Endangered and Protected Species Act, 2002).

Imports ban or permit required for a wide range of endangered species under the CITES (Fiji Endangered and Protected Species Act, 2002).

Fiji is a signatory of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries, which entered into force in 2004.

Drafting of a Fiji Standard for Forest Management and Certification covering criteria and indicators of good forest management in 2006 expected to be in place by end 2008.

Exports of round logs are banned for environmental reasons.

The offshore tuna fishery is subject to the Tuna Development and Management Plan of 2002, which provides the setting of sustainable harvest levels for each target species of albacore, bigeye, and yellowfin tuna.

A Rehabilitation Trust Fund was established by the new owners of the main mining activity at the Vatukoula Gold Mine to meet social and environmental concerns.

Exports of various woods and wood products require a licence.

The 2004 Pacific Islands Energy Policy (PIEP) and related Pacific Islands Energy Strategic Action Plan (PIESAP) were adopted as the basis of Fiji’s National Energy Policy and Strategic Action Plan, endorsed by Cabinet in November 2006, which reflects, among others, fundamental concerns on environmental vulnerability from climate change affecting sea levels and environmental pollution and damage from conventional energy sources, and thus focuses on the development of renewable energy sources.