WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/ARG/24 
25 April 2006 
 (06-1944) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 13 March 2006, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Argentina .  The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1  and 
the relevant supporting tables) for the agricultural year 2001/2002 . 
    
 
     
 
    
 
     
 
    
 
    
 
     
  
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Page 2 Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  ARGENTINA 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2001-2002 
 
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 Sche dule) (from Section  I of Part IV of th e Schedule) (from attached supporting tables) 
1 2 3 
78,473,829 1992 $ 47,677,214 
  
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  ARGENTINA 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2002 
 
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment  - "Green Box" 
 
Measure type  
Name and description of the measure with  reference to the criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of the 
measure in the 
year in question 
(1992 $) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
General services  
Research 
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(a)) Special Fund for Tobacco Development of new technologies fo r production in Corrientes  (INTA experime ntal 
stations). 16,672 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 INTA Budget implemented in personnel, research   and operating costs. 12,199,339 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Pest and disease control 
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(b)) National Agriculture and 
Food Quality Service Central activities.  Senior management – admi nistrative, legal and technical services.  
Plant protection. 7,018,664 SENASA 
  Agriculture and food control.  Approva l of agro-chemicals and pharmacological 
products.  Laboratory services. 3,829,793 SENASA 
  Animal Health. 30,830,505 SENASA 
 SAGPyA Expanded sanitary controls. 19,440 PROSAP (SAGPyA)  SAGPyA Plant health in the province of La Rioja. 298,437 PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
 SAGPyA Integrated management of Carpocapsa  and Grapholita  in fruit areas of the province 
of Mendoza. 47,496 PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
Training services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(c)) Special Fund for Tobacco  Training of technical specialis ts and producers. 46, 595 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 
Extension and advisory services                  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(d)) Special Fund fo r Tobacco Advice and technical assistance for producers for activities related to dive rsification, 
reconversion and training.   984,637 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  
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1 2 3 4 
Inspection services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(e)) Special Fund for Tobacco Administration and monitoring in Ca tamarca, Chaco, Corrientes, Jujuy, Mision es, 
Salta and Tucumán. 711,115 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Infrastructure services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(g))  Special Fund for Tobacco Installation of rain-gauges in police stations in Tucumán. 0 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Financing of projects to improve basic in frastructure in the tobacco growing areas of 
the province of Salta 19,320 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Financing of repair work on the irrigati on system in Alberdi and La Cocha, province 
of Tucumán. 0 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Res. 352/99 
  Support programme for administrative sta ndardization and control of the land of 
7,000 producers in the province of Misiones. 0 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Replacement of infrastructure damage d by the water-related emergency in the 
province of Chaco. 112,575 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Installation of an anti-hail rocket system. 1,698,835 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 SAGPyA Rehabilitation of irrigation and drai nage systems in Constitución, Montecaseros, 
Colonia Centenario and Lower Mendoza Rive r.  Minor building projects, water and 
soil-quality studies. 3,137,843 PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
 SAGPyA Improvement of local roads in Santa Fe.   0 PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
 
Decoupled income support     
(Annex 2, paragraph 6(a) to (e)) Agricultural Social 
Programme The Social Programme benefits smallholders  (minifundistas) in 21 provinces in the 
country through financial and technical a ssistance and training.  Some of the 
eligibility requirements are:  having a monthly income level not exceeding twice the 
rural agricultural worker's wage, not em ploying any labour, living on the farm, and 
having working capital not exceeding $20,000.   Smallholders who have formed a 
grouping may submit production projects fo r a maximum of $1,200 per family and 
$200 in the case of self-consumption projects.  Together with the project, the Programme finances technical assistance provided by independe nt institutions or 
experts for a period of not more than three years.  When receiving the funds, 
beneficiary families undertake to repay them  to a provincial revolving fund, which is 
used to finance new projects. 294,674 SAGPyA 
 
 Special Fund for Tobacco Assistance to tobacco growing families to finance medical, health, biochemical and 
dentistry benefits. (This measure benefits over 110,000 people.) 1,176,232 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Support for trade association activity. 71,550 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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Government financial participation in income  insurance and income safety net programmes    
(Annex 2, paragraph 7(a) to (d))  Special Fund for Tobacco (A) Assistance to cove r damage caused by rainfall and hail in the tob acco-
producing provinces. 0 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Natural disaster relief payments     
(Annex 2, paragraph 8(a) to (e)) Agricultural Emergency 
Programme. Law No. 22913 Support for producers who suffered dama ge from flooding, rainfall, hail and 
other adverse phenomena in the provinces  of La Pampa, Santiago del Estero 
and Corrientes.   555,117 SAGPyA 
  Financial compensation to the wool industry for small producers of the 
Patagonian region in an emergency situation. 0 SAGPyA 
 Emergency Support Programme 
for Patagonian Agricultural 
Production.  Resolution 613/96. Support for provincial programmes to curb damage from animals harmful to 
livestock.   0 SAGPyA 
 Special Fund for Tobacco  Purchase of tarred board s to help producers whose curing and drying sheds 
and houses have been damaged by ha il and strong winds.  (This measure 
benefits a thousand producers in the province of Misiones.) 0 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Structural adjustment assistance provided through investment aid   
(Annex 2, paragraph 11(a) to (f)) Special Fund for Tobacco  Assistance for the financ ial or physical restructuring of productio n activities 
in response to objectively demonstrated structural disadvantages.  The 
construction of centres, provision of supplementary equipment, production 
and storage;   land improvement, assist ance for the modernization of farms. 7,142,140 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 Rural change  Technical assistance for production,  organization and training. 811,106 INTA (SAGPyA) 
 Small holdings (Minifundio) Technical assistance for pr oduction, organization and trai ning . 198,301 INTA (SAGPyA) 
 Prohuerta Technical assistance for production, or ganization and training. 2,291,401 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Regional Assistance  Programme   
(Annex 2, paragraph 13(a) to (f)) Support programme for 
Patagonian agricultural 
production.  Resolutions 613/96 and 783/96, amended by 
SAGPyA Resolutions 376/97, 
716/97 and 925/97. Loans to producers having between 1, 000 and 6,000 sheep. 0 DDA (SAGPyA) 
 
 
Notes : 
 
SENASA:  National Agriculture and Food Health and Quality Service  
SAGPyA:  Secretariat of Agriculture , Livestock, Fisheries and Food  
DNPyEAyF:  National Directorate of Agricultural and Forestry Economics   
INTA:  National Institute of Agricultural Technology 
   
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Supporting Table DS:4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  ARGENTINA 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2001-2002 
 
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) 
 Product-specific measurements of support 
(from supporting table DS:8 below)  
 
(1992 $) Current Total AMS (aggregate) 
 
(1992 $) 
1 2 3 4 
Tobacco  47,677,214 47,677,214 
 
   
 
    
 
  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  ARGENTINA 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2001-2002 
 
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support  
 
Description of 
basic products Calendar/ 
marketing 
year 
beginning ... Measure 
type(s) Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
(1992 $/kg.) Production 
eligible to 
receive the 
applied 
administered 
price 
(kg.) Market price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
(1992 $) Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(include 
calculation 
details) 
(1992 $) Non-
exempt 
direct 
payments Other 
product-
specific 
support Associated 
fees/levies Total 
monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment 
 
(1992 $) Data source 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 
(7+8+9-10) 12 
Tobacco 1 December 
2001 to 
30 November 
2002 Payment 
per unit  0.36 132,436,707 47,677,214 47,677,214 - - - 47,677,214 Ministry of 
Agriculture 
Fisheries and 
Food/FET 
Yearbooks  
 
 
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