Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policieslaws, each Party shall strive to ensure that those its laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policiesthose laws.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement, Environmental Cooperation Agreement, Environmental Cooperation Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policiesregulations, each Party shall strive to ensure that those its laws and policies regulations provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental those laws and policiesregulations.
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Samples: North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, International Boundary Agreement, North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
Levels of protection. Recognizing the sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels and priorities of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Trade and Environment Agreement, Trade and Environment Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental those laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those its environmental laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to develop and improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental those laws and policiespolicies and the environmental governance that supports them.
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Samples: Agreement on the Environment, Agreement on the Environment
Levels of protection. Recognizing the The Parties reaffirm each Party’s sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, priorities and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws law and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws its environmental law and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection protection, and each Party shall strive to continue to develop and improve its that law and those policies and the environmental management systems which support them, taking into consideration their respective levels of environmental protectiondevelopment, including through such environmental laws technologies, and policiesfinancial resources available to them.
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Samples: Environmental Cooperation Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing Recognising the right of each Party to set its own environmental priorities, to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development prioritiesprotection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policiespolicies accordingly, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective them and their underlying levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the sovereign right of each Party to establish estab- lish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies poli- cies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental environmen- tal protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Trade Promotion Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Trade Promotion Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the 1. The Parties reaffirm each Party's sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each .
2. Each Party shall strive seek to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection protection, and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policiesregulations, each Party shall strive to ensure that those its laws and policies regulations provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental those laws and policiesregulations. Article 37: Enforcement Principle Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to empower a Party's authorities to undertake environmental law enforcement activities in the territory of another Party.
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Samples: Trade Agreement