submitted in accordance with the Act or any other sector law. • Environmental Integration: The Agency ensures the integration of environmental concerns in overall national planning by developing modalities and maintaining linkages or partnerships with relevant Government Ministries, departments and Agencies • Environmental Research: The Agency undertakes such studies and submits such reports and recommendations with respect to the environment as the Government or Board may consider necessary. OBJECTIVE 3: Promoting the adoption of codes of good business ethics in achieving the objectives of the corporation 3.4.4 Establishment a Petroleum Unit to ensure coordination of national products requirements Activities and achievement of the Petroleum Unit: • Coordination of National product requirements by effectively monitoring of stocks vis-à-vis funds available, to ensure uninterrupted supply of all grades of petroleum products. • Ongoing Monitoring of import arrangements and supply prices. Import arrangements for petroleum products are closely monitored alongside daily movements in world market prices. • Efficient procurement practices are essential for a “fair” pump-price system and resultant consumer protection. • The Design and Management of a nationally harmonized pump pricing regime for all white products, i.e. same pump prices across country for petrol, kerosene and diesel - essentially to remove incentives for adulteration of products and to promote transparent pump-pricing; • Development of a sustainable national database on downstream petroleum operations through the use of Field Monitoring Officers and timely/transparent Industry/OMC reporting. • To Manage and supervise Subsidy considerations as and when introduced in the pricing formulae for sale of petroleum products • To ensure continuous public awareness and senAPRM Sierra Leone | Annual Progress Report • • • • • sitization on the handling, storing and sale of petroleum products. The Unit leads/co-ordinates the activities of a Task Force which comprises the Unit, all Oil Marketing Companies, various Civil Society Organizations and other stakeholders including the Sierra Leone Police and the Union of Independent Oil Dealers. The Petroleum Unit promotes and ensures MDAs and private sector inter-agency monitoring and regulatory exercises (MTI, MOFED, MIC&PA, MTA, Oil Marketing Companies, Standards Bureau) for conformity to pricing, quality, quantity and other industry obligations and the public social awareness and interests. The coordination of the quality & quantity control systems put in place for importation and equitable distribution and sales of petroleum products remains an important priority of government and therefore a core function of the Petroleum Unit. As a means of synergizing amongst regulatory agencies to strengthen standards, the National Revenue Authority has been looped within the partnership to ensure that it partakes in the provision of necessary information and in turn receives relevant information from the Unit. The Petroleum Unit’s participation in the Weekly Cash Management Committee meetings at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) has provided a useful forum to inform the Government of Sierra Leone, the Strategic Financial Management Team and Stakeholders of the overall performance of the Downstream Petroleum Sector, in terms of its efficiency of revenue contribution and collection reporting by the N R A. The Unit has also carved a relationship with the Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency (SLEPA) in matters relating to the environment and attendant issues. OBJECTIVE 4: Ensuring that the Companies Treat All Their Stakeholders (Stakeholders, Employees, Communities, Suppliers and Consumers) in a Fair and Just Manner 3.4.5 Establishment of a National Sanitary and Phytosanitry Committee and SecretariatThis is the outcome of an ECOWAS recommendation to 39