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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/271; WT/TPR/S/271 G-B-I§3; G-B-III§102; S-B-IV§412-413 East African Community (EAC): Burundi 2012 Sectors Services
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On 9 April 2011, the Government adopted a national strategy for the sustainable development of tourism during the period 2011-2020 offering a development framework for the planning, improvement, promotion and management of the tourism sector to be implemented by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/214; WT/TPR/S/214/Rev.1 G-III§70, 76; S-II§68-9 European Union 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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The “GSP+” arrangement aims at providing an incentive to vulnerable developing countries to ratify and effectively implement internationally agreed standards on sustainable development and good governance.
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Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/237; WT/TPR/S/237/Rev.1 G-VI§45; S-IV§28 Sri Lanka 2010 Sectors Agriculture
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Exports licensing requirements apply on a limited number of agricultural products on environmental, genetic and endemic plant preservation grounds
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Conservation
Environment
Genetic
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/273; WT/TPR/S/273/Rev.1 G-II§37-38; S-III§32; Table III.3 Iceland 2012 Measures Not specified
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A new environmental tax was levied on liquid fossil fuels in 2010 in relation to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (2.6-3.1 ISK per litre), while excise duties on various motor vehicles have been lowered on low emission vehicles, but increased on higher emission vehicles
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Emissions
Environment
Climate
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/217; WT/TPR/S/217/Rev.1 G-III§30; S-III§52 Morocco 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences
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Under multilateral agreements such as the CITES or the Basel Convention, products, waste and/or species of wild fauna and flora are subject to a permit, certificate or export ban.
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Waste
MEAs
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/250; WT/TPR/S/250/Rev.1 G-III§33-35; S-IV§21-26 Mauritania 2011 Sectors Fisheries
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Although the Government has declared sustainability to be a concern since 1998, up until now Mauritania has opted in favour of income from fisheries by selling licences to foreign fleets, thereby contributing towards intensified exploitation of its resources rather than to developing better integrated fishing on a smaller scale, although Mauritania has also undertaken to implement international regulations against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
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Fish
Eco
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/227; WT/TPR/S/227/Rev.1 G-III§53; S-IV§66 Croatia 2010 Sectors Services
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The standards with respect to environmental protection have been improved in all transport sectors according to Croatia's transport policy objective
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Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/213; WT/TPR/S/213/Rev.1 G-III§50; S-IV§49, 51 Fiji 2009 Sectors Energy
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Objective of the Government are to improve the national energy mix from 40% of renewable energy to 50% for the grid and from 5% to 10% for off-grid electricity by 2011, and to have 30% of fuel used in transport from biofuel, Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by 2010.
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Bio
Energy
Renewable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/254 G-IV§156; S-II§26-27 Ecuador 2011 Trade Policy Framework
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Ecuador has participated actively in the DDA of multilateral trade negotiations whose latest individual or joint submissions relate to TRIPS and TRIPS-related issues (e.g. biological diversity, wines and spirits) and fisheries subsidies, among other issues
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Bio
Climate
Environment
Fish
Organic
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/264; WT/TPR/S/264/rev.1 G-II§16; S-IV§10, 45; Table AIII.6 China 2012 Sectors Agriculture
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The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) reaffirms the commitments in earlier plans to build a Socialist New Countryside through strengthened support, more benefits to farmers, and the promotion of modernization in order to improve living standards for farmers, emphasizing the need to increase farm mechanization as well as the development and adoption of biotechnology and protection of the natural environment
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Bio
Conservation
Environment
Pollution