G/SCM/Q2/AUS/65  
 
24 March 2022  
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original: English  
 
SUBSIDIES  
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS1 POSED BY THE UNITED KINGDOM  REGARDING  
THE NEW  AND FULL NOTIFICATION OF AUSTRALIA2 
The following communication, dated and received on 2 3 March 2022, is being circulated at the 
request of the delegation of Australia.  
 
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Australia thanks the United Kingdom for its questions and provides the following responses:  
 
Entrepreneurs' Programme – Growth  
 
1. Can Australia provide any information on the proportion of the total amount of 
assistance that went to each Growth Sector?  
 
Reply : 
 
Growth 
Sector  2019 -20 
AUD 19-20 % 
Total  2020 -21 
AUD 20-21 % 
Total  Grand Total  
AUD % Total  
Ad Man  $7,268,686  32.30%  $9,727,748  38.49%  $16,996,434  35.57%  
Enabling  $3,426,296  15.23%  $5,482,119  21.69%  $8,908,415  18.65%  
Food & Agri  $5,613,511  24.94%  $5,380,000  21.29%  $10,993,511  23.01%  
MedTech  $1,247,799  5.54%  $1,520,000  6.01%  $2,767,799  5.79%  
METS -
OGER*  $3,593,788  15.97%  $3,163,756  12.52%  $6,757,544  14.14%  
Tourism  $1,353,500  6.01%   0.00%  $1,353,500  2.83%  
Grand Total  $22,503,580  100.00%  $25,273,623  100.00%  $47,777,203  100.00%  
* Mining Equipment Technology and Services – Oil, Gas and Energy Resources (METS -OGER)  
 
Industry Growth Centres Initiative  
 
2. Of the AUD 31.8m Accelerating Commercialisation Funding, can Australia provide 
a breakdown of how much funding has been provided to each Growth Centre?  
 
Reply : 
 
The figure of AUD 31.8m is the amount provided by the Industry Growth Centres Initiative  to 
Accelerating Commercialisation  (administered by the Entrepreneurs ' Programme) over the 2019/20 
and 2020/21 period.  
 
The funds provided by Industry Growth Centres I nitiative are only a portion of the total Accelerating 
Commercialisation (AC) funding for those financial years. The actual grant payments made by 
Accelerating Commercialisation to businesses were AUD 30.3m in FY2019 -20 and AUD 38.6m in 
FY2020 -21. 
 
 
1 G/SCM/Q2/AUS/63  
2 G/SCM/N/372/AUS  G/SCM/Q2/AUS/65  
 
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  The gro wth sectors for Accelerating Commercialisation grants are based on the AC project (not the 
business).  
 
The total grant payments made to each of the five growth sectors (used by AC) is shown in the table 
below.  
 
Accelerating Commercialisation grant paymen ts by growth sector  
 
Growth Sector  Sum of Grants Paid 2019 -2020  
AUD Sum of Grants Paid 2020 -2021  
AUD 
Advanced Manufacturing  $8,605,040  $9,472,011  
Food and Agribusiness  $5,552,991  $7,490,622  
Medical Technologies and 
Pharmaceuticals  $5,416,943  $6,955,860  
Mining Equipment Technology 
and Services  $1,624,953  $1,646,701  
Oil, Gas and Energy Resources  $1,215,773  $2,458,750  
No Growth Sector  $7,930,920  $10,547,356  
 
AC does not use the sixth industry growth sector (Cyber Security) when assessing applications, 
however some projects in the 'No growth sector ' group below may fall into this category.  
 
AC assistance covers 'not more than 50% of the costs for pre -competiti ve development activity '. 
 
Industry Partnership Program  
 
3. Can Australia provide more information on the form of the assistance that was 
provided during the period covered by this notification?  
 
Reply : 
 
Australia notes that the notification period was FY2020 -21, i.e. our notification provided information 
up to 30 June 2021.  
 
The Industry Partnership Program is a new initiative launched in June 2021, with applicants 
registering interest prior to submitting detailed applications to request funding under t he 
program.   The majority of applications to this program are currently under assessment prior to 
agreements being entered into for successful projects. Applicants are able to request a variety of 
assistance, including project facilitation, grants, loans a nd payroll tax concessions.  
 
4. Can Australia provide any information on the proportion of the total amount of 
assistance that went to each of the target sectors listed?  
 
Reply : 
 
To date applications to the Industry Partnership Program have been received acro ss all of the target 
sectors. The proportion of assistance going to target sectors has not been finalised.  
 
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