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Fiji would like sufficient flexibilities to be accorded to sugar and fisheries through lower tariff cuts and longer transitional periods and the development dimension to be integrated in all areas of the DDA including flexibilities on fisheries subsidies.

Policy objectives are, inter alia, to sustain development of the country's mineral resources and to create employment opportunities by profitably exploiting Zimbabwe's natural resources for its socio-economic development, with environmental issues in mineral exploitation, as well as indigenization and empowerment issues being given due attention at project inception and development stages

Forest concessions (timber permits) are issued formally by the Minister of Forestry, based on the PNGFA's recommendations and input from the National Forestry Board in order to prevent illegal logging

The Automotive Complementary Agreement between Ecuador, Colombia, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela prohibits the import of used motor vehicles and parts, in order to guarantee among other things environmental conservation, while the National Financial Corporation granted preferential credit loans (not exceeding 9.8%) to consumers, in order to trade older vehicles for newer, more environmentally friendly, ones

The USAID's West Africa Cotton Improvement Program (WACIP) is designed to help achieve various objectives, including reduction soil degradation and expand the use of good agricultural practices; and improve the enabling environment for agricultural biotechnology

Even though the 1985 Code already provided for "optimum exploitation to prevent over-exploitation", fisheries resources have not been the subject of any strictly applied rules and illegal fishing by foreign trawlers is rapidly leading to the depletion of stocks

In March 2009, the President unveiled a plan to make Maldives the first carbon-neutral country by virtually eliminating the use of fossil fuel by the year 2020 and putting in place a new renewable electricity generation and transmission infrastructure with 155 large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks.

On November 2008, the EU Council of Ministers (Agriculture) agreed on a compromise over a range of measures (e.g. the Health Check of the CAP reform) aimed at introducing some necessary adjustments to the 2003 CAP reform, thus allowing it to better response to the new challenges and opportunities, including climate change, the need for better water management, the protection of biodiversity, and the production of green energy.

Under the new Mining Code, exploration permits are granted to persons who can show that they have an environmental mitigation and rehabilitation plan

Import and/or export prohibition maintained on, among others, environmental protection grounds in compliance with WAEMU rules