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IV. CONSIDERATION OF MULTILATERAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT AGREEMENTS IN DOMESTIC POLICY FORMULATION

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C. Relevant multilateral and environmental agreements

Papua New Guinea is a party to a number of international and regional conventions and treaties regarding trade and the environment (table 7). However, none of those agreements are specific to the minerals sector or the export of minerals. The following sections briefly discuss the major multilateral agreements which have implications for the minerals sector in Papua New Guinea.

Table 7. International and regional Conventions and treaties on trade and the environment to which Papua New Guinea is a party

  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1947;
  • World Trade Organization Agreement, 1993;
  • Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, 1992;
  • Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer;
  • Basle Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal;
  • Barbados Conference on Small Island Developing States;
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, 1973;
  • Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by the Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972;
  • Law of the Sea Convention, 1982;
  • International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954 (amended 1962 and 1969);
  • International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969;
  • International Convention Related to the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971;
  • International Plant Protection Convention, 1951;
  • Plant Protection Agreement for the South-East Asian and Pacific Region (as amended 1956);
  • Antarctic Treaty, 1959;
  • Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, Outer Space and Underwater, 1963;
  • Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, 1976;
  • Convention on the Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific, 1976;
  • Convention for the Protection and Development of Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region, 1988;
  • South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, 1989.
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