G/SCM/Q2/RUS/5  
 
19 November 2013  
(13-6377)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original: English  
 
 SUBSIDIES 
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS POSED BY THE UNITED STATES1 REGARDING THE NEW 
AND FULL NOTIFICATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION2 
The following communication, dated 18 November 2013, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Russian Federation.  
_______________ 
  1  NOTIFIED PROGRAMS 
With respect to "Civil Aircraft industry support  (7)," the Russian Federation states that 
it has amended Resolution No. 466 of 25 June 2002, and will provide subsidies under the program exclusively for fulfillment of obligat ions to Russian producers on contracts 
concluded before 1 January 2011. It appears that the Russian Federation seems to be 
budgeting 630 million Rubles annually under this program for 2012, 2013 and 2014. 
Could the Russian Federation pl ease explain how long the pr e-2011 contracts will be in 
force and how long it intends to continue  to provide support under this program? 
 Reply 
 
Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 466 of 25 June 2002 "On approval of 
provision of subsidies from the federal budget to the Russian airline companies for partial compensation of interest costs on loans in 2002-2005 and lease payments for the purposes of 
purchasing the Russian aircrafts" was amended by the Resolution of the Government of the 
Russian Federation No. 164 of 27 February 2013.  
The introduced amendments limited the scope of the support program only to contracts concluded 
by the Russian airline companies with the fi nancial organizations in 2002-2010. The support 
program did not establish single termination date for the concluded contracts and therefore the contracts will expire in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof. 
 
For the purposes of funding the partial compensa tion of interest and lease payments of the 
Russian airline companies due under the pre-2011 contracts concluded with financial organizations 
the Federal Budget for the year of 2013 allocated 630 million rubles. For the year of 2014 the 
funding is planned to be reduced to 504 million rubles.  
Duration of the amended support program depends on the duration of the contracts concluded by 
the Russian airlines with the financial organiza tions and therefore in general the program will 
expire same day the last pre-2011 contract expires. However, any such contracts concluded by the Russian airlines after 1 January 2011 do not fa ll within the scope of the amended program and 
therefore are not subject to state support. 
 
                                               
1 G/SCM/Q2/RUS/2. 
2 G/SCM/N/253/RUS. G/SCM/Q2/RUS/5 
 
- 2 - 
 
  2  OTHER PROGRAMS 
Publicly available information indicates th at the Russian Federation administered 
several other support programs in 2012 that ma y meet the requirements for notification 
set forth under Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures 
(SCM Agreement). Could the Russian Federa tion please explain why each of the 
programs below should not be notified, or  provide the information required under 
Article 25 of the SCM Agreement? 
 
Reply 
 Information on other subsidies shall be provided in addition to the Notification G/SCM/N/253/RUS. 
 
__________