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Legal and Regulatory Framework

Assistance under this category includes helping countries to bring their own regulations into conformity with international rules, more general help to improve their legal institutions, and training officials to deal with such rules. A number of the agencies specialise in par­ticular areas, rather than trying to provide expertise on the legal rules in all sectors. For several, the aim is to balance trade-related obli­gations with other national (or international) interests.

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Summary of activities included in this category
Strengthening food and medicines regulatory institutions - Cape Verde
Institutional Strengthening of Banco de Cabo Verde - Phase 2
Institutional and Technical Strengthening of Mozambique’s National Institute of Standardization and Quality (INNOQ) - Trilateral Cooperation with Brazil, Germany and Mozambique

Supply Capacity

In line with the trade focus of this Guide, support activities to develop supply capacity are considered to be those that aim to increase the availability of goods and services for export. There is no easy distinction between this and building more general capacity to pro­duce, and this distinction is becoming less pertinent as borders open and competition in local markets from imports increases. Some agencies do not make this distinction in their projects.

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Summary of activities included in this category
Exporta Fácil
Competitive Substitution of Imports
Mercosur structural convergence fund (FOCEM)