G/AG/N/CHE/84  
7 February  2018 
(18-0853) Page: 1/11 
Committee on Agriculture  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 2 February 2 018, is being c irculated at the request of 
the delegation of Switzerland . The notification concerns domestic support commitments  
(Table  DS:1  and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the calendar year 2014 . 
 
 
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Table  DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD : CALENDAR YEAR 2014 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  
for period in question  Currency  Current total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1 2 3 
4,257 CHF (million)  1,363 
 
    
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Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SW ITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CA LENDAR YEAR 2014  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment – "Green Box"  
Measure 
type Name and description of measure with  reference to criteria in Annex  2 Monetary value of 
measure in year in 
question  
(CHF million ) Data source s 
1 2 3 4 
(a) General services    
 (a) Research  123.71 OFAG  
 (b) Pest and disease control  54.3 OFAG/OVF/CFL  
 (c) Training services  -  
 (d) Extension and advisory services  12.0 OFAG  
 (e) Inspection services : quality control of milk, grape crops, fruit and vegetables  5.0 OFAG/OVF/CFL  
 (f)  Marketing and promotion services : sales promotion  59.8 OFAG/CFL  
 (g) Infrastructural services : structural improvements, including land improvements (in general and in th e event of 
severe weather conditions)  89.2 OFAG  
 (h) Other general services :   
 Family allowances for small farmers and agricultural workers (notified for transparency purposes ) 105.0 DFF/CdC  
 Cantonal spending on agriculture : administration, land improvement and rural buildings, animal tending , health 
and social measures  336.0 AFF 
(b) Public stockholding for food security purposes    
 None -  
                                                
1 The value is high because of a change in statistics. Since 2014, the gross value has been used for research (instead of the n et value).    
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Measure 
type Name and description of measure with  reference to criteria in Annex  2 Monetary value of 
measure in year in 
question  
(CHF million ) Data source s 
1 2 3 4 
(c) Domestic food aid    
 None -  
(d) Decoupled income support    
 Transitional payments  307.8 OFAG/CFL  
 General direct payments : payment for services provided in the general interest (protection and maintenance of the 
countryside, safeguarding of the viability of rural areas ), supplement to market earnings  3.4 CFL 
(e) Income insurance and income safety -net programmes   
 None -  
(f) Payments for relief from natural disasters  4.3 OFAG  
    
(g) Structural adjustment assistance provided through producer retirement programmes   
 None -  
(h) Structural adjustment assistance provided through resource retirement programmes   
 Assistance for vocational retraining  -  
(i) Structural adjustment assistance provided through investment aids    
 Investment credits (loss of interest on total credits granted ) 
Assistance to small farms (loss of interest on total credits granted ) 
Assistance to improve livestock breeding  45.1 
0.8 
34.2 OFAG  
OFAG  
OFAG/CFL  
(j) Environmental programmes    
 Biodiversity payment s 287.2 OFAG/CFL  
 Networking payment s 80.1 OFAG  
 Organic farming payment s 41.2 OFAG/CFL  
 Payments for the extensive farming of cereals, sunflowers, high -protein peas, field beans and colza  31.9 OFAG/CFL  
 Payments for pasture -based milk and meat production  104.8 OFAG  
 Animal welfare payments  263.3 OFAG/CFL    
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Measure 
type Name and description of measure with  reference to criteria in Annex  2 Monetary value of 
measure in year in 
question  
(CHF million ) Data source s 
1 2 3 4 
 Payments for pollutant emission -reducing spreading techniques  2.2 OFAG  
 Payments for soil -preserving farming techniques  3.9 OFAG  
 Payments for the use of precise application techniques  0.3 OFAG  
 Payments for special ecological services (extensive production, organic farming, development and working of 
environmental compensation areas, animal -keeping programmes, water protection ) 31.7 OFAG  
 Payments for summer pasturing  121.6 OFAG/CFL  
(k) Regional assistance programmes    
 Open landscape maintenance payments  140.6 OFAG  
 Payments for farming on sloping land  107.8 OFAG/CFL  
 Payments for farming on steep slopes  13.5 OFAG  
 Payments for wine cultivation on steep slopes  11.7 OFAG  
 Mountain pasturing payments  101.6 OFAG/CFL  
 Payments for farming in difficult conditions  160.3 OFAG  
 Landscape quality payments  70.2 OFAG  
(l) Other     
 None -  
TOTAL FOR TABLE  2,754.5  
Key: 
AFF: Federal Finance Administration  
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture  
OVF: Federal Veterinary Office  
DFF/CdC : Federal Finance Department/Central Compensation Office  
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein    
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Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2014  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Descrip tion of basic products (including non -product -specific AMS ) Product -specific AMS (from Supporting 
Tables DS:5 to DS:7 below ) 
(CHF million ) Value of production1 
 
(CHF million ) Current total AMS 
(aggregate ) 
(CHF million ) 
  Amount  5% of value   
1 2 3 4 5 
(1) Milk and milk products  293.5 2,378 119 293.5 
(2) Bovine meat  3.1 1,318 65.9 3 
(3) Fruit 4.6 580 29 3 
(4) Eggs  1.3 238 11.9 3 
(5) Wool 0.9 4.18 0.21 0.9 
(6) Tobacco  7.2 16.16 0.81 7.2 
(7) Oilseeds  18.8 18.86 0.94 18.8 
(8) Soya beans  1.4 3.31 0.17 1.4 
(9) Other grain legumes  4.6 2  4.6 
(10) Seeds  (potato plants and maize seed , forage grasses and  forage 
legumes ) 1.5 76.77 3.84 3 
(11) Sugar beet  33.1 153 7.65 33.1 
(12) Non-product specific AMS (DS:9)  1,003.5 10,691 535 1,003.5 
Total : Current total AMS     1,363 
                                                
1 Value of Swiss production notified by the Federal Statistical Office (provisional data). Value of production data is not available for the Principality of Liechtenstein.  
2 Data not available.  
3 De minimis .   
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Supporting Table DS:5  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2014  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Market Price Support  
Description of basic 
products  Calendar/ 
marketing year  Measure 
type(s)  Applied administered 
price 
 
(CHF/tonne)  External reference 
price 
 
(CHF/tonne)  Eligible 
production  
(thousand 
tonnes)  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
(CHF million ) Total market price 
support  
 
(CHF million ) Data 
source s 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
[((4-5)*6) -7] 9 
(1) Tobacco  2014 Price support  16,160 8,993 1.0  7.2 OFAG  
Total for table        7.2  
Key: 
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture  
    
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Supporting Table DS:6  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2014  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Non-Exempt Direct Payments  
Description of 
basic products  Calendar 
year 
 Measure 
type(s)  Applied 
administered 
price 
 
(CHF/tonne ) External 
reference 
price 
 
(CHF/tonne ) Eligible 
production  
 
(thousand 
tonnes ) Total 
price-related 
direct payments  
 
(CHF million ) Other  
non-exempt 
direct payments  
 
(CHF million ) Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
(CHF million ) Total direct 
payments  
 
 
(CHF million ) Data 
source s 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
((4+5)*6)  8 9 10 
(7+8-9) 11 
Oilseeds  2014 Crop premium      18.8  18.8 OFAG  
Soya beans  2014 Crop premium      1.4  1.4 OFAG  
Other grain 
legumes  2014 Crop premium      4.6  4.6 OFAG  
Seeds  2014 Crop premium      1.5  1.5 OFAG  
Sugar beet  2014 Crop premium      33.1  33.1 OFAG  
 TOTAL FOR TABLE        59.4  
Key: 
OFAG : Federal Office  for Agriculture  
    
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Supporting Table  DS:7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SWITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2014  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support : Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description  
of basic 
products  Calendar 
year Measure type(s ) Other 
product -specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
(CHF million ) Other 
product -specific 
support 
(include 
calculation 
details)  
(CHF million ) Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
 
(CHF million ) Total other 
product -
specific 
suppor t 
 
 
(CHF million ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(CHF million ) Non-exempt di rect 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:6)  
 
 
(CHF million ) Total AMS  
 
 
 
 
 
(CHF million ) Data 
source s 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 9 10 
(7+8+9)  11 
(1) MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS  
 2014 Market price support  
(supplements for  milk 
converted into cheese and 
for non -silage feed ) 293.5       OFAG/CFL  
  TOTAL  293.5 0.0 0.0  293.5 0.0 0.0 293.5  
(2) BOVINE  MEAT  
 2014 Market price support  3.1       OFAG  
  TOTAL  3.1 0.0 0.0 3.1 0.0 0.0 3.1  
(3) EGGS  
 2014 Market price support  1.3       OFAG  
  TOTAL  1.3 0.0 0.0  1.3 0.0 0.0 1.3  
(4)  FRUIT  
 2014 Guarantee stocks 
(concentrated pome -fruit 
juices)  
0.7       OFAG  
 
  Value addition support for 
fruit 3.9       OFAG  
  TOTAL  4.6 0.0 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 4.6  
(5) WOOL            
 2014 Market price support  0.9       OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.9 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.9    
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Description  
of basic 
products  Calendar 
year Measure type(s ) Other 
product -specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
(CHF million ) Other 
product -specific 
support 
(include 
calculation 
details)  
(CHF million ) Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
 
(CHF million ) Total other 
product -
specific 
suppor t 
 
 
(CHF million ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(CHF million ) Non-exempt di rect 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:6)  
 
 
(CHF million ) Total AMS  
 
 
 
 
 
(CHF million ) Data 
source s 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
(4+5-6) 8 9 10 
(7+8+9)  11 
(6) OILSEEDS  
 2014 Crop premium       18.8  OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0  18.8 0.0 18.8 18.8  
(7) SOYA 
BEANS            
 2014 Crop premium       1.4  OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.4 1.4  
(8) OTHER GRAIN LEGUMES  
 2014 Crop premium       4.6  OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0 4.6 0.0 4.6 4.6  
(9) SEEDS 
 2014 Crop premiu m      1.5  OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.5 1.5  
(10) SUGAR BEET  
 2014 Crop premiu m      33.1  OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0 33.1 0.0 33.1 33.1  
(11) TOBACCO  
 2014 Market price support      7.2   OFAG  
  TOTAL  0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.2 0.0 7.2  
  TOTAL FOR TABLE        370.0  
Key: 
OFAG : Federal Office for Agricultu re 
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein  
 
   
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Supporting Table  DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: SW ITZERLAND – LIECHTENSTEIN  
REPORTING PERIOD: CA LENDAR YEAR 2014  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Calendar 
year Non-product -specific 
budgetary outlays  
 
(CHF million ) Other non -product -specific 
support  
 
(CHF million ) Associated fees/levies  
 
 
(CHF million ) Total non -product -specific 
support  
 
(CHF million ) Data sources  
1 2 3 4 5 6 
(3+4-5) 7 
Supply security payments :        
 Basic payment  2014 824   824 OFAG  
 Payment for open land and permanent 
crops  2014 111.9   111.9 OFAG/CFL  
Payments for herding roughage -consuming 
animals1  2014 2.2   2.2 CFL 
Refund of fuel tax to farmers  2014 65.4   65.4 DGD 
Total for table      1,003.5  
Key: 
OFAG : Federal Office for Agriculture  
DGD: Directorate -General of Customs  
CFL: Government Chancellery of the Principality of Liechtenstein  
 
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1 Roughage -consuming animals are cattle, horses, sheep, goats, bison, water buffalo, deer, llamas, and alpacas. The payment is not made per animal, but per livestock u nit 
(LU) of roughage -consuming animals. For further information on these livestock units, please refer to the relevant ordinance (available in Ger man): 
https://www.gesetze.li/konso/2009264000?search_text=lbav&search_loc=abk_list&lrnr=&lgblid_von=&observe_date=30.01.2018 .