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Table 3.12 Various support measures
Subsidies to green energy and energy conservation
Subsidy: Ride the Wind Programme (development of manufacturing of wind turbine components)
Type of subsidy: Programme eliminated
Legislation: The Renewable Energy Law

Subsidy: Special Fund for Wind Power Manufacturing
Type of subsidy: Programme eliminated
Legislation: The Renewable Energy Law

(...) Restrictions on foreign investment affect some activities including nuclear power and certain postal services (Table 2.3 and Section 4.4). (...)

Although Iceland strongly supports multilateral solutions, it notes that plurilateral agreements can be a powerful tool for trade opening and more liberalization. In many instances, they can provide immediate benefits for trade and growth. Iceland has accordingly engaged in various plurilateral initiatives conducted in the margins of the WTO, including the Information Technology Agreement and the negotiations for an Environmental Goods Agreement. Iceland has also participated in the negotiations on a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and remains committed to the conclusion of the negotiations. Furthermore, Iceland actively partakes in the plurilateral initiative to prohibit harmful fisheries subsidies. It foresees, as other participants in these initiatives, that they can, once concluded, be integrated into the WTO framework at a later stage.

Panama allows the import of genetically modified products. It does, however, prohibit the production, import, sale and use of products containing certain additives for animal consumption. Panama approved the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and has set up a National Biosafety Commission, as well as biosafety committees in the areas of health, the environment and agriculture. The authorities are planning to develop more rules in this regard.

(…) Currently, there are 46 technical committees for different economic sectors [17], with over 200 members, including a range of public and private sector representatives (local authorities, industry, trade, consumers, academia and civil society). (…)

[17] Sectors include: general services, food and agriculture, health and safety, information technology, environment, electrical and mechanical engineering, building and construction materials, and chemicals and textiles.

Import prohibitions in Canada are imposed on: obscene material; hate propaganda and materials of a treasonable or seditious character ; base or counterfeit coins; prison labor goods; certain copyrighted works; certain used or second-hand motor vehicles and aircraft; certain used and second-hand mattresses; white phosphorus matches; and, certain endangered species or those that could pose a threat to the environment. (...)

(...) Genetically modified organisms for food/feed use and genetically modified products must be labelled if the genetically modified components contained therein exceed 0.9% of the total mass as prescribed by the Law on the Labelling of Genetically Modified Organisms for Food/Animal Feed Use and of Genetically Modified Products Derived Therefrom.

The EU and its Member States collectively drive global ‘Aid for trade’ efforts as the world's largest donor accounting for more than a third of global support, to the current tune of €12 billion per year. As a component of Official Development Assistance, EU Aid for Trade is programmed according to beneficiary needs, but with clear priorities, including support for implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement and an ongoing commitment to prioritize the Least Developed Countries. Moreover, in its recent Communication on a New European Consensus on Development the EU committed itself to further coordinate development cooperation programmes (such as Aid for Trade) with trade policy tools to support sustainable development, including inclusive growth.

Table 2.1 New trade related laws and regulations, 2007-2014
Field: Ozone depleting substances
Instrument/text: Decree No. 2007 327 of 24 April 2007 regulating the importation and use of ozone depleting substances

Since being established in 2007, CPAC has been taking stock of the use of pesticides and developing the tools required for registration. CPAC has just finalized an agro- ecological map of the subregion.