Table 3

Countries that monitor and have sanctions stipulated for compliance with regulations (n=28)

CountryMonitoring definedMonitoring responsible entitySanctions definedSanctions responsible entitySanctions type
E*A†P‡
African Region
 Botswana24NANA
 Ethiopia25NA
 Kenya26NANANA
 Madagascar27NANA
 Malawi28NANA
 Nigeria29
 South Africa30NANANSNSNS
Region of the Americas
 Bolivia36NANANANANA
 Brazil38–40NANANANANANANA
NANSNSNS
NANSNSNS
 Honduras37NANANA
South-East Asian Region
 Bangladesh17NA
 Cambodia18NSNSNS
 India21NANANA
 Indonesia22 23NANANANANANANA
NANANANANANANA
 Myanmar20NANANANANA
 Maldives19NANANA
European Region
 Kyrgyzstan44NANSNSNS
Eastern Mediterranean Region
 Afghanistan41NANA
 Lebanon42NSNS
 Saudi Arabia43NA
Western Pacific Region
 Cook Islands31NANANANANA
 Lao People’s Democratic Republic34 35NANANANANANA
 Philippines32
 Vietnam33NANANA
  • *Economic sanction: fines.

  • †Administrative sanction: warning letters, suspensions or revocations of operating licenses and confiscations or recalls of products.

  • ‡Penal sanction: periods of imprisonment.

  • NA, no information available on the issue in the document; NS, the information is not specified in the document consulted but refers to another document.