G/AG/N/CHE/95  
2 October  2019 
(19-6383) Page: 1/9 
Committee on Agriculture  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  26 September 2 019, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Switzerland . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1  
and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the calendar year  2018 . 
 
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Table  DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current Total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1 2 3 
4,257 CHF (million ) 1,354.76 
 
   
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Supporting Table  DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference  
to criteria in Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
CHF million  Data sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2. General services      
2 (a) Re search   129 OFAG   
Subtotal:  129   
2 (b) Pest and disease control   49.8 OFAG/OVF/CFL   
Subtotal:  49.8   
2 (d) Extension and advisory services   11 OFAG   
Subtotal:  11   
2 (e) Inspection services  Quality control of milk, grape crops, fruit and vegetables  3.7 OFAG/OVF/CFL   
Subtotal:  3.7   
2 (f) Marketing and promotion services  Sales promotion  65.8 OFAG/CFL   
Subtotal:  65.8   
2 (g) Infrastructural services  Structural improvements, including land improvements (in general and in 
the event of severe weather conditions)  82.2 OFAG   
Subtotal:  82.2   
2 (h) Other general services  Family allowances for small farmers and agricultural workers (notified for 
transparency purposes)  81.4 AFF/OFAS   
Cantonal spending on agriculture : administration, land improvement and 
rural buildings, animal tending, health and social measures  335 AFF  
Subtotal:  416.4   
 Subtotal General services  757.9   
6. Decoupled income support  Transitional payments  113.8 OFAG   
General direct payments : payment for services provided in the general 
interest (protection and maintenance of the countryside, safeguarding of 
the viability of rural areas), supplement to market earnings  3.2 CFL  
Subtotal:  117   
8. Relief from natural disasters    OFAG   
Subtotal:     
10. Structural adjustment assistance provided through 
resource retirement programmes  Assistance for vocational retraining  0   
Subtotal:  0   
11. Structural adjustment assistance provided through 
investment aids  Investment credits (loss of interest on total credits granted)  0.9 OFAG   
Assistance to small farms (loss of interest on total credits granted)  0 OFAG   
Assistance to improve livestock breeding  35.4 OFAG/CFL   
Subtotal:  36.3     
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference  
to criteria in Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
CHF million  Data sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
12. Environmental programmes  Biodiversity payments  313.3 OFAG/CFL   
Networking payments  102.7 OFAG   
Organic farming payments  55.2 OFAG   
Payments for the extensive farming of cereals, sunflowers, high -protein 
peas, field beans and colza  35.2 OFAG   
Payments for pasture -based milk and meat production  110.8 OFAG   
Animal welfare payments  275.5 OFAG   
Payments for pollutant emission -reducing spreading techniques  13.1 OFAG   
Payments for soil -preserving farming techniques  16.7 OFAG   
Payments for the use of precise application techniques  0.7 OFAG   
Payments for the installation on sprayers of a cleaning system with a 
separate rinse water unit  0.7 OFAG   
Payments for two -phase low-nitrogen swine feeding  2.4 OFAG   
Payments for the reduction of plant protection products in sugar beet 
growing, viticulture and fruit-farming  1.8 OFAG   
Payments for special ecological services (extensive production, organic 
farming, development and working of environmental compensation areas, 
animal -keeping programmes, water protection)  21.5 OFAG   
Payments for summer pasturing  124 OFAG/CFL   
Subtotal:  1,073.6    
13. Regional assistance programmes  Open landscape maintenance payments  140 OFAG   
Payments for farming on sloping land  127.1  OFAG/CFL   
Payments for farming on steep slopes  11.3 OFAG   
Payments for wine cultivation on steep slopes  11.5 OFAG   
Mountain pasturing payments  108.5  OFAG   
Payments for farming in difficult conditions  159.4  OFAG   
Landscape quality payments  145.9  OFAG   
Subtotal:  703.7    
Total Green Box  2,688.5    
AFF: Federal Finance Administration.  
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture.  
OVF: Federal Veterinary Office.  
OFAS : Federal Social Insurance Office.  
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein.  
    
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Supporting Table  DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018 
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products  
(including non -product -specific AMS)  
 
 Product -specific 
AMS (from 
Supporting Tables 
DS:5 to DS:7)  
 
 
 
CHF million  Product -specific 
equivalent 
measurements of 
support (from 
Supporting Table 
DS:8)  
 
CHF million  Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Value of production  
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Support as a 
% of value of 
production  
 Current total AMS  
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Tobacco 7.16  7.16 16.5 43.39% 7.16  
Oilseeds  19.6  19.6 88.1 22.25% 19.6  
Soya beans  1.8  1.8 2.3 78.26% 1.8  
Other grain legumes  5.7  5.7 11.6 49.14% 5.7  
Seeds 1.6  1.6 21 7.62% 1.6  
Sugar beet  33.3  33.3 109.6 30.38% 33.3  
Milk and milk products  293  293 2,206.7 13.28% 293  
Bovine meat  2.6  2.6 1,415.9 0.18% 0 (de minimis )  
Eggs 1.8  1.8 268.9 0.67% 0 (de minimis )  
Fruit 1.7  1.7 375.8 0.45% 0 (de minimis )  
Wool 0.6  0.6 0.2 300%  0.6  
Total non -product -specific AMS from Supporting Table DS:9  992 10,587.6 9.37%  992  
TOTAL  1,354.76  
Value of Swiss production notified by the Federal Statistical Office (provisional data) . Value of production data is not available for the Principality of Liechtenstein.  
    
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Supporting Table  DS:5  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Market Price Support  
Description of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure 
type(s)  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
 
CHF External 
reference price 
(generally 
from AGST)  
 
CHF Eligible production  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
CHF million  Total market 
price support  
((4-5)*6) -7 
 
 
CHF million  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  
Tobacco CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Price support  16,150/tonne 8,993/tonne 1,000 tonnes  7.16 OFAG   
Total T obacco         7.16   
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture.  
    
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Supporting Table  DS:6  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Non-Exempt Direct Payments  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure type(s)  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
 
 
 
CHF External 
reference 
price  
(generally 
from 
AGST)  
 
CHF Eligible 
production  Total price -
related 
direct 
payments 
((4-5)*6)  
 
 
CHF million  Other non -
exempt 
direct 
payments  
 
 
 
CHF million  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
 
CHF 
million  Total direct 
payments 
(7+8 -9) 
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Oilseeds  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Crop premium      19.6  19.6 OFAG   
Total 
Oilseeds            19.6   
Soya beans  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Crop premium      1.8  1.8 OFAG   
Total So ya 
beans            1.8   
Other grain 
legumes  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Crop premium      5.7  5.7 OFAG   
Total Other 
grain 
legumes            5.7   
Seeds CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Crop premium      1.6  1.6 OFAG   
Total 
Seeds           1.6   
Sugar beets  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Crop premium      33.3  33.3 OFAG   
Total 
Sugar 
beets            33.3   
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture.  
    
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Supporting Table  DS:7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description of 
basic products  Reporting period  Measure type(s)  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
 
CHF million  Other 
product -
specific 
support 
(include 
calculation 
details)  
 
CHF million  Associated 
fees/  
levies  Total other 
produc t-
specific 
support 
(4+5 -6) 
 
 
 
CHF million  Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table DS:6)  
 
 
 
CHF million  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Total T obacco         7.16  7.16   
Total O ilseeds           19.6 19.6   
Total So ya beens           1.8 1.8   
Total Other grain 
legumes           5.7 5.7   
Total Se eds          1.6 1.6   
Total Sugar beet           33.3 33.3   
Milk and milk 
products  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Market price support 
(supplements for milk 
converted into cheese 
and for non -silage 
feed) 293 0 0 293    OFAG   
Total Milk and 
milk products         293   293   
Bovine meat  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Market price support  2.6 0 0 2.6    OFAG   
Total Bovine meat         2.6   2.6   
Eggs CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Market price support  1.8 0 0 1.8    OFAG   
Total Eggs         1.8   1.8   
Fruit CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Guarantee stocks 
(concentrated pome -
fruit juices)  0 0 0 0    OFAG   
Fruit CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Value addition support 
for fruit  1.7 0 0 1.7    OFAG   
Total Fruit         1.7   1.7   
Wool CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 Market price support  0.6 0 0 0.6    OFAG   
Total Wool         0.6   0.6   
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture.  
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein.     
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Supporting Table  DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND - LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2018  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Reporting period  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
CHF million  Other non -
product -specific 
support (include 
calculation 
details)  
 
CHF million  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
 
CHF million  Total non -
product -specific 
support (3+4 -5) 
 
 
 
CHF million  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
Supply security payments:  
• Basic payment  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 811.6   811.6 OFAG   
Supply security payments:  
• Payment for open land and permanent crops  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 113.1   113.1 OFAG   
Payments for herding roughage -consuming 
animals  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 2.2   2.2 CFL (1) 
Refund of fuel tax to farmers  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18 65.1   65.1 DGD (2) 
TOTAL  992  
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture.  
DGD: Directorate -General of Customs.  
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein.  
(1) Roughage -consuming animals are cattle, horses, sheep, goats, bison, water buffalo, deer, llamas, and alpacas . The payment is not made per animal, but per livestock 
unit (LU) of roughage -consuming animal s. For further information on these livestock units, please refer to the relevant ordinance (available in German): 
https: //www.gesetze.li/konso/2009264000?search_text=lbav&search_loc=abk_list&lrnr=&lgblid_von=&observe_date=30.01.2018 . 
(2) An estimate was used here as the final figure is not yet available . 
 
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