WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/ROM/19
21 October 2003
(03-5547)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning export subsidy commitments ( Tables ES:1, ES:2 and
ES:3 ) for the calendar years 2000, 2001 and 2002  was received from the delegation of Romania  on
15 September 2003.
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In accordance with the Articles 10 and 18:2 of the Agreement on Agriculture and notification
requirements and formats (document G/AG/2, relating to export subsidy commitments – Table ES:1),
Romania wishes to inform the Committee that ther e have not been any export subsidies provided to
any agricultural product in calendar years 2001 and 2002.  Romania also has the honour to inform that
it is not a food aid donor country and did not apply any quantities of food aid for the calendar years
2001 and 2002.
During the calendar year 2000, export subsidies were only applied to the products appearing
in Table ES:1.  Other products subject to reduction commitments, as shown in Section II of Part IV of
Schedule LXIX – Romania, received no export subsidies during the said period.G/AG/N/ROM/19
Page 2Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Romania
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2000
Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Calendar year 2000 Subsidized exports Food aid Annual commitment levels
Outlays *
(billion lei)Quantity
(tonnes)Quantity Outlays **
(million lei)Quantity
(tonnes)
12 3 4 5 6 7
Cereals 99.0 266,000 - 595.8 306,000
* Current prices 2000 (1 US$ = 21,692.74 lei).
** Constant lei and current prices 1986-1989 (1 US$ = 23 lei).G/AG/N/ROM/19
Page 3Supporting Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Romania
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2000
Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Direct
export
subsidies
(billion lei)Sales of
stocksProducer
financed
subsidiesCost reduction
measuresInternal
transport
subsidiesTotal product
specific
export
subsidies
(billion lei)Quantity of
subsidised
exports
(tonnes)Data source
12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cereals 99.0 99.0 266,000 Ministry of Agriculture
and FoodG/AG/N/ROM/19
Page 4Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Romania
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar Year 2000
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports
Description of products Calendar year 2000 Quantity of total exports
(tonnes)
12 3
Cereals 349,861
Oilseeds 208,170
Vegetable oils 49,123
Sugar 4,912
Butter and vegetable fats 83
Cheese 2,656
Beef meat, pork meat, sheepmeat and meat preparations 6,243
Poultry meat 825
Live animals 91,764
Eggs 288 (th. pcs.)
Wine and spirits 257,486 (hl)
Fruit 10,317
Vegetables 27,027
Source:  Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment.G/AG/N/ROM/19
Page 5Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Romania
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar Year 2001
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports
Description of products Calendar year 2001 Quantity of total exports
(tonnes)
12 3
Cereals 682,569
Oilseeds 235,907
Vegetable oils 52,185
Sugar 4,610
Butter and vegetable fats 34
Cheese 2,482
Beef meat, pork meat, sheepmeat and meat preparations 5,576
Poultry meat 987
Live animals 83,857
Eggs 5,152 (th. pcs.)
Wine and spirits 400,333 (hl)
Fruit 15,469
Vegetables 27,714
Source:  Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment.G/AG/N/ROM/19
Page 6Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Romania
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar Year 2002
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports
Description of products Calendar year 2002 Quantity of total exports
(tonnes)
12 3
Cereals 817,268
Oilseeds 145,349
Vegetable oils 12,187
Sugar 7,109
Butter and vegetable fats 0.7
Cheese 3,290
Beef meat, pork meat, sheepmeat and meat preparations 2,749
Poultry meat 1,338
Live animals 81,498
Eggs 2,975 (th. pcs.)
Wine and spirits 518,308 (hl)
Fruit 8,768
Vegetables 36,400
Source:  Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Waters and Environment.
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