WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/NOR/31
7 March 2001
(01-1118)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The attached notification concerning new or modified domestic support measures exempt
from reduction (Table DS:2)  was received from the delegation of Norway on 5 March 2001.G/AG/N/NOR/31
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: NORWAY
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:
New or modified domestic support me asures exempt from reduction
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(1) Full title of measure:
Producer retirement programme
(2) Domestic legislation reference:
The annual Agricultural Agreement approved by the Parliament
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:
The notified scheme is in accordance with the requirements of Annex 2 paragraph 9;
structural adjustment assistance provided through producer retirement programmes.
The scheme is a publicly funded government programme, where producers older than 62
years and spouses older than 57 years are paid to retire from farming. Producers participatingin the scheme are not allowed to continue farming. The producer must have been a farmer for
at least 15 years before retirement. The payments for retirement are given as an annual lump
sum during a 5-year period or less.
(4) Cost of measure:
1999: NOK 29.6 million
(5) Date of entry into effect:
1 January 1999
 (6) Period of application:
Not specified
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)):
Not related to specific productsG/AG/N/NOR/31
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: NORWAY
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:
New or modified domestic support me asures exempt from reduction
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(1) Full title of measure:
Scheme for purchase and resale of milk quota, including resource retirement
(2) Domestic legislation reference:
The annual Agricultural Agreement approved by the Parliament
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria:
The notified scheme is in accordance with the requirements of Annex 2 paragraph 10;
structural adjustment provided through resource retirement programmes.
The scheme is a publicly funded government  programme for permanent withdrawal of milk
quotas. Quota holders currently producing milk may offer their milk quota for sale to the
programme. Quota holders have to sell their entire quota. Therefore parts of the quota can not
be sold to the programme. The scheme is designed to reduce milk production. Producersselling their quota are not allowed to restart milk production.
Payments are not related to neither the type or quantity of production or the prices, domestic
or international, applying to production undertaken using the land or other resources
remaining in production.
In some cases parts of the milk quotas may be resold to other producers. If the purchased milk
quotas are resold, the scheme only works as a redistributing system for milk quotas, and not
as a support scheme. Producers purchasing milk quota pay the same price for the milk quota
given to producers selling their quota. In addition there is an administration fee to fully cover
the costs related to the administration of the scheme.
(4) Cost of measure:
1999: NOK 148.6 million (including administration)
(5) Date of entry into effect:
1997 for redistributing system
1999 for resource retirement scheme
 (6) Period of application:
1999 and onwards
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)):
Only dairy producers can take part in the scheme
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