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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
3 - The right to a healthy environment
- Tunisia's ratification of nearly all international conventions
and protocols on environmental protection.
- The establishment of appropriate structures: Ministry of the Environment
and Land Use Planning, National Environmental Protection Agency, International Center for Environmental Technology,
Agency for Coastal Protection and Development, and others.
- The establishment of specific laws and national plans of action
pertaining to: the maritime public domain; the prevention of maritime pollution; waste management; rural and urban
sanitation; protection of the coast; conservation of biological diversity; prevention of desertification; prevention
of industrial pollution; etc.
- The establishment of incentives and financing mechanisms:
- The Higher Presidential Prize for the protection of nature and
the environment.
- The fund for industrial pollution abatement.
- Tax advantages, under the new code of investment incentives.
- The establishment of mechanisms of observation and monitoring:
- Tunisia's Agenda 21 and indicators for sustainable development.
- Annual national report on the state of the environment.
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