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The Saudi Food and Drug Authority aims to ensure food and drug safety for humans and animals, and the safety of biological and chemical substances

Fiscal expenditure has continued to favour weakly funded areas that would help promote people's livelihood, energy conservation, emission reduction, and ecological environment and so forth. (...)

The European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement entered into force in 1994 between the European Union member States and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, creating a single market with free movement of goods, services, persons, and capital, as well as non-discrimination and equal rules of competition. There is cooperation in many other areas as well, such as (...) environment (...)

Imports of animals or plants listed in the appendices of CITES, among others, may be prohibited in order to preserve domestic plant and animal life and the environment.

Where technical assistance is concerned, since the last review in 2006 the WTO has organized 15 national technical cooperation activities in Angola [28] (…)

[28] The topics addressed were: (…) trade and environment, (…)

The main strategy being implemented to guide Trinidad and Tobago's overall social and economic development is "Vision 2030: (...) (e) placing the environment at the centre of social and economic development. (...)Among the main economic priorities identified in Vision 2030 are to: expand exports, increase foreign exchange earnings an employment; improve productivity; manage energy-related developments (Section 4.3); and ensure growth while protecting the environment. (...)

Sustainable technologies are a priority sector in Canada's Global Markets Action Plan and, as such, Canada is seeking to further liberalize trade in this area, notably in the context of the plurilateral initiative for a WTO Environmental Goods Agreement. The sustainable technologies sector includes both environmental goods and services. The Canadian sustainable technologies sector, which is highly export intensive, is comprised of several sub-sectors: industrial processes and products, transportation, energy efficiency green buildings, recycling, recovery and remediation, water and wastewater, power generation and, energy infrastructure/smart grid (Table 4.19). In 2012, the Canadian sustainable technologies sector, which mainly includes small and medium-sized enterprises, was estimated at Can$11.3 billion, directly employed around 41,100 people and had research and development expenditures of around Can$1.143 billion.

(...) Peru has a Fiscal Stabilization Fund (FEF), which is made up of resources accumulated in surplus years to deal with emergency situations, such as natural disasters.

Import licences and permits are required for (...) products of plant origin, products of animal origin, food products (radioactivity and "fitness for consumption" tests) (...)

Table 3.6 Prohibited imports, 2014
Product: 2. Java sparrows; Reason for prohibition: CITES
Product: 10. Shark products; Reason for prohibition: Food security and environment