ProCompetitive Effects

1. Standards-setting processes that create efficiency and effectiveness in the between companies.
2. Conversion into eco-friendly products cost are high therefore, companies makes joint
agreements in the production for lesser cost i.e., packaging.
3. It develops communication between companies and consumers. The American Cleaning
Institute has recently collaborated with TSC to develop the Cold Water Saves program, a
communication campaign aimed at millennials regarding the benefits of washing clothes in cold
water.
4. Recognizes key areas where investments are needed and bring the financial and social capital
together to create action.
5. Help industry members’ benchmark performance against one another so that continuous
improvement occurs.
6. Agreements among the supply chain of using of product alternatives which shall also be
beneficial to consumers by providing incentives should they use the reusable product on their
next purchase. (reusable cup & straws for plastic free zones)

CHECK MO TO IF APPLICABLE OR TYPE MO NA RECOMMENDATION FROM A STUDY DIN TO

Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Association Agreement to be negotiated between

the EU and Central America. Rotterdam, 18 September 2009
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2010/april/tradoc_146042.pdf

Main trade-related policy recommendations and flanking measures:

•Technical assistance in addressing NTMs, especially in SPS, technical barriers to trade (TBT) and
trade facilitation;

•Support efforts to facilitate structural adjustment across sectors and alleviate associated short-
term difficulties and costs following the implementation of the AA, including support for reallocation
of production factors among sectors, for example by means of special skills improvement
programmes or providing financial incentives;

•Allow for phasing in of tariff reductions at sector level – especially for

those sectors where social
and environmental impacts will be high – in parallel with improvements in relevant legislation and
its enforcement and the promotion of sustainability standards and their monitoring.

•Include a Sustainable Development Chapter in the AA addressing specific social issues (international
labour standards, implementation and monitoring systems, agreements on working conditions and
sector-specific issues) and environmental issues (MEAs, issue-specific provisions e.g. in relation to
forests, fishery, biofuels, organic farming, etc., regional monitoring mechanisms and institutional
capacity building of environmental agencies) – flanked by an appropriate incentive structure;

•Promote social and tri-partite dialogue in Central America, as they can help to fulfill an important
social function in policy making in Central America;

•Strengthen institutional capacity for Central American environmental agencies and policy-making
(at a regional and national level);

•Devote special attention, effort and funding to SMEs (being the main source of employment and
livelihood in Central America) and to how they can benefit from the AA. Similarly, making the AA
effects more inclusive and pro-poor requires special attention for poor and vulnerable groups,
especially in regions and sectors affected disproportionately. Technical assistance in various fields
and at sector-level could be aimed at specific vulnerable groups (e.g. export promotion for SMEs,
entrepreneurship for female groups, environmental services in forest areas for indigenous
populations and SPS standards in small-subsistence farmer areas