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G/AG/N/ARM/16/Rev.1 
22 October 2012 
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Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision 
 
 
 The following submission, dated 11 October 2012, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Armenia .  The revised notification concerns domestic support commitments 
(Table DS:1  and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the calendar year  2007 . 
  
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  In accordance with the notification requirement s, Armenia notifies that domestic support to 
agricultural producers in 2007 was provided through th e operations of the Ministry of Agriculture and 
other government departments.  All such support is covered by the domestic support categories which 
are exempt from reduction comm itments or are within the de minimis limit under the Agreement on 
Agriculture.  The attached Supporting Tables DS:1, DS :4 and DS:9 provide details of these measures. 
  The revision reflects the reclassification of the programme "Artificial insemination of agricultural animals" under the "Research" com ponent of the category "General services".  
 
 
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Page 2 Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
Total AMS commitment level for period in question Currency Current Total AMS 
(from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached Supporting Tables) 
1 2 3 
   
 million AMD (Armenian Dram) de minimis 
   
  
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS:1 
 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box" 
 
Measure Type Name and description of measure with reference to the criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure of 
the year in question 
(AMD million) Data Sources 
1 2 3 4 
General Services    
 (a) Research:   
 - Land agrochemical research and fertility enhancement 
measures 42.3 Ministry of Agriculture 
 - Practical research prog rammes of fundamental and 
significant importance for scientific and scientific engineering activity 94.9 " 
 - Services of special measures for stock-breeding and 
seed-growing 0.9 " 
 - Seed quality inspection and state sort testing 28.3 " 
 - Artificial insemination of agricultural animals:  research 
programmes addressing lives tock breeding and genetic 
improvement 34.1 " 
 (b) Pest and disease control: 
  
 Plant protection:   
 - Plant protection measures 288.0 " 
 - Disease prevention services on the basis of laboratory 
examination of monitoring of plant quarantine and 
phytosanitary condition of agricultural cultivated plants 89.0 "  
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 Veterinary and anti-epidemic measures and quarantine:   
 - Acquisition of vaccines and necessary accessories for other 
anti-epidemic measures 842.9 Ministry of Agriculture 
 - Organization of veterinary service, anti-epidemic measures, 
livestock disease prevention services through regional 
community leaders 383.6 " 
 - Measures related to laboratory diagnosis of animal diseases 
and examination for raw mate rials and stuff of animal 
origin 190.3 " 
 - Programme for combating avian influenza with the support 
of the World Bank 407.4 " 
 - Japanese grant programme for combating avian influenza 
with the support of the World Bank 73.3 " 
 (d) Extension and advisory services, including the provision of 
means to facilitate the transfer of information and the results 
of research to producers and consumers:   
 - Education and science 331.6 " 
 - Assistance to acquiring agricultural data 0.0 " 
 - Financing for Marz (Regional) Centres of Agricultural 
Assistance (AAMCs) and th e Republican Centre of 
Agricultural Assistance (AA RC) with the purpose of 
realizing agricultural advisory services 57.6 " 
 (e) Inspection services:   
 - Inspection of quarantine limitations through the veterinary 
platoon of the police, an adjunct body to the 
RA Government 14.0 " 
 (f) Marketing and promotion services:   
 - Japanese grant programme for the development of rural 
enterprises and small commercial agriculture with the support of the World Bank 110.5 "  
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 - Development programme for the rural enterprises and small 
commercial agriculture with the support of the World Bank 1,936.6 Ministry of Agriculture 
 - Economic development programme of rural areas with the 
assistance of Internationa l Fund of Agricultural 
Development 2,594.7 " 
 (g) Infrastructural services:  expenditure is directed only to the 
provision or implementation of capital works, including:   
 Organization of capital works of land improvement:   
 - Amelioration and irrigation of natural pastures 299.8 " 
 - Improvement and maintenance of agricultural lands and 
reconstruction of engineering structures 255.9 " 
 - Primary measures for cleaning channels of rivers and 
streams and for reinforcement of banks 28.6 " 
 - The implementation of reinforcement works of the banks of 
the River Araks in the area of Meghri in Syunik Region 89.5 " 
 - Capital repairs of buildings of agricultural importance 145.2 " 
 - Provision of hydro-meteo rological measures 2.2 " 
  
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Page 6 Supporting Table DS:4 
 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
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 
below) 
 
(AMD million) Product-specific equivalent 
measurements of support  
(from Supporting Table DS:8 below)
(AMD million) Current Total AMS (aggregate) 
  
(AMD million) 
1 2 3 4 
Non-product-specific AMS (from Supporting 
Table DS:9 below) 316.3  316.31 
    
Total AMS   de minimis 
 
                                                      
1 The total value of agricultural production in 2007 was 633.9 billion AMD.  
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 Page 7Supporting Table DS:9 
 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
Non-Product-Specific AMS 
 
Measure type(s) Calendar year  
2007 Non-product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
(AMD million) Other non-product 
specific support 
(include calculation 
details) Associated 
fees/levies Total non-
product-specific 
support 
 
 
(AMD million) Data sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
(3+4-5) 7 
Assistance to land users of up 
to 7 acres  166.3 - - 166.3 Ministry of Agriculture 
Assistance for acquisition of 
nitrogen fertilizers  150.0 - - 150.0 " 
Total     316.3  
 
 
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