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The Directorate-General of Livestock Services (DGSG) is in charge of investigating and controlling residues of veterinary medicines and environmental pollutants in agricultural facilities (food intake, forage, veterinary products) and industrial facilities processing products of animal origin, as prescribed by Decree No. 576/009 of 15 December 2009

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offers financial compensation to farmers willing to retire environmentally sensitive land from crop production for at least ten years. The CRP cap will be gradually reduced from 32 million acres in the 2008 Farm Bill to 24 million acres by FY2017 , continuing the policy shift away from land retirement through the CRP towards conservation measures on land that is in agricultural production (EQIP or Conservation Stewardship Program).

Between 2010 and 2013, Australia initiated six countervailing investigations. As of 30 June 2014 seven definitive countervailing duties were levied on aluminium extrusions, aluminium road wheels, hollow structural sections, aluminium zinc coated steel, zinc coated steel, and hot rolled plate steel from China, as well as biodiesel from the United States.

The Standards Institution of Israel (SII) has published 3,192 standards, some of which are directed towards environmental protection

An export permit issued by the Ministry of Public Health is also required for medicines and chemical substances and from SEMARNAT for plants and wild animals and their products. [167] (…)

[167] Decree No. 1288 04 of 1 October 2004. These are plants, wild animals and their products subject to the regulations on international trade in wild species of fauna and flora (CITES).

Nepal has made 14 notifications on its SPS measures, including measures aimed at protecting plant and the territory from other damages from pests

Enterprises benefiting from the Law on industrial and marketing free zones must meet, among others, the national regulations on the environment

According to the IMF, Guinea's medium term outlook is favourable although risks persist. These good prospects should be borne out by the 2016-2020 National Economic and Social Development Plan (PNDES), which is projecting a vision of (…) sustainable resource management. (...)

Since its last TPR, New Zealand has engaged actively in trade and environment negotiations at the WTO. New Zealand has and will continue to support ambitious outcomes in these negotiations. In particular, ambitious outcomes on fisheries subsidies and on the elimination of tariffs on a broad range of environmental goods have the potential to deliver concrete economic, environmental and developmental benefits. (...)

Based on the GTPP programme and in close collaboration with the JIPA, WIPO launched WIPO Green, in 2010, in an effort to respond to the UNFCCC's call for promoting and cooperating in the development, application, and diffusion of environmentally sound technology. WIPO Green was intended to provide a platform for both the user and provider of environmental technology to accelerate the adaptation, adoption and deployment of environmental technology, particularly in developing countries and emerging economies.