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their policies, including in the domains of agriculture, energy, manufacturing and transport;

expand the use of market-based instruments (e.g. environmental taxes and charges, tradeable permits) to achieve cost-effective environmental results;

All

pursue co-operative approaches, especially in the OECD, to prevent at the international as well as national levels incompatibility between environmental, economic, trade, employment and social policies;

co-operate fully with other nations to achieve an effective follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development;

help CEECS and NIS address their severe environmental problems, as called for most recently by the Ministerial Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland.

OECD IN THE WORLD

19.

The emerging world-wide consensus on the merits of the market economy and the successful integration of a growing number of countries in the international economy calls for an increasingly outward-looking OECD, and for a diversified set of relations with non-OECD economies.

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