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The Government's current overall objective with regard to energy policy is "to ensure that electricity is delivered in an efficient, fair, reliable and environmentally sustainable manner to all consumers".

Georgia benefited from a number of TA activities on TRIPS, such as the workshop for Central and Eastern European and Central Asian and the Caucasus (CEECAC) countries which, in June 2008, covered topics as varied as public health, biotechnology, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and geographical indications.

Under the 2006 Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) Act, a foreign investor is granted an investment licence under the condition that the investment will have developmental benefits and not harm the environment.

An Energy Development Account (CDE) is used to promote, inter alia, the competitiveness of energy production from alternative sources.

The import or transit of industrial or nuclear waste has been banned since 1989.

Export restrictions on specific products are imposed in order to comply with the requirements of CITES.

With the regard to hydroelectric power stations, generation projects must obtain an environmental permit and others authorizations.

Senegalese technical regulations concern, among others, petroleum products, discharge of waste water and atmospheric pollution.

Under the Trade Act, export licensing is required for hides and skins, feathers, bird skins with feathers, prepared feathers, ornamental feathers, and other feather articles with the objective to ensure environmental safeguards for wildlife.

The EC launched negotiations for a region-to-region Association Agreement with the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) and with Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) in 2007, with the objective to foster, inter alia, sustainable development.