CAF List of excluded business activities
- Production or trade of any product or activity considered illegal under the laws of the host country or international regulations or conventions and agreements, or subject to international prohibitions, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides, ozone-depleting substances, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), wildlife, or CITES-regulated products.
- Production or trade in arms and ammunition.
- Tobacco production or trade.
- Gambling, casinos, and equivalent companies.
- Production or trade in radioactive materials. This does not apply to the purchase of medical equipment, quality control (measured) equipment, and any equipment in which the CAF considers the radioactive source to be trivial and/or adequately protected.
- Production or trade of unbonded asbestos fiber. This does not apply to the purchase and use of asbestos cement sheets, where the asbestos content is less than 20%.
- Production and use of PCB compounds.
- Production of pharmaceuticals that are being phased out of the market or have been banned internationally, according to the United Nations publication Prohibited products: Consolidated list of products that have been banned, withdrawn, severely restricted or not approved by governments for consumption or sale (latest version 2001, English: www.who.int/medicines/library/qsm/edm-qsm-2001-3/edm-qsm-2001_3.pdf).
- Pesticides or herbicides that are being phased out of the market or have been banned internationally under the Rotterdam Convention (www.pic.int) and the Stockholm Convention (www.pops.int).
- Production of substances that are harmful to the ozone layer and are being phased out of the international market. These substances known as ODS (ODS) are regulated by the Montreal Protocol, where there is a list of these substances and the dates that were established as a target for their reduction and withdrawal from the market. Some of the chemical compounds regulated by the Montreal Protocol are aerosols, refrigerants, foaming agents, solvents, and fire protection agents (www.unep.org/ozone/montreal.shtml).
- Production or use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
- Fishing in the marine environment with nets over 2.5 km long.
- Commercial logging operations with raw materials from the primary tropical rainforest.
- Production or trade of timber or other forest products other than from sustainably managed forests.
- Production, trade, storage, or transportation of large volumes of hazardous chemicals, or the commercial-scale use of hazardous chemicals.
- Production or activities that affect the ownership of territory or land, or claimed for adjudication, by indigenous peoples, without the full documented consent of such peoples.
- Operations in protected areas (Protected Areas) with special legislation, when the operation has the potential to jeopardize the objective of creating the protected area.
