WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/ARM/12 
11 June 2007 
 (07-2438) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 29 May 2007, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Armenia .  The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1  and 
the relevant Supporting Tables) for the calendar year  2006 . 
 
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 In accordance with the notification requirements  (paragraph (ii), page 11 of document G/AG/2), 
Armenia notifies that domestic support to agri cultural producers in 2006 was provided through the 
operations of the Ministry of Agriculture and other government bodies, and international organizations.  
All such support is covered by the domestic s upport categories which are exempt from reduction 
commitments under the Agreement on Agriculture.  The attached  Supporting Table DS:1 provides 
details of these exempt measures.  
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DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2006 
 
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 
(Dram million) Data Sources 
1 2 3 4 
General Services    
 (a) Research :   
 - Land agrochemical research and fertility enhancement 
measures 36.8 Ministry of Agriculture 
 - Practical research programs of  fundamental and significant 
importance for scientific and scientific engineering activity 92.2 " 
 - Services of special measures  for stock-breeding and seed- 
growing 0.9 " 
 - Seed quality and stat e breeding testing 25.0 " 
    
 (b) Pest and disease control : 
 Plant protection:   
 -  Plant protection measures 308.8 " 
 -  Disease prevention servic es on the basis of laboratory 
examination of monitoring of plant quarantine and 
phytosanitary condition of agricultural cultivated plants 75.4 " 
 
Veterinary and anti-epidemic measures and quarantine:   
 -  Acquisition of vaccines and necessary accessories for other 
anti-epidemic measures. 
 728.5 
 
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General Services (cont’d) - Or ganization of veterinary serv ice, anti-epidemic measures, 
livestock disease prevention services through regional 
community leaders 287.2 
 Ministry of Agriculture 
 -  Measures related to laboratory diagnosis of animal diseases   
and examination for raw materials and stuff of animal origin 137.0 
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 (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 349.1 " 
 - Assistance to acquiring agricultural data. 0.0 " 
 - Specifications of irrigation standards and regimes for 
agricultural cultivated plants and dissemination of results. 49.7 " 
 - Financing for Marz (Regional) Centres of Agricultural 
Assistance (hereinafter referred to as AAMCs) and the 
Republican Centre of Agricultural Assistance (hereinafter 
referred to as AARC) with the purpose of realizing 
agricultural advisory services. 46.4 " 
    
 (e) Inspection services :   
 - Inspection of quarantine limit ations through the veterinary 
platoon of the police, an adjunct body to the  RA 
Government 14.0 " 
    
 (f) Marketing and promotion services :    
 - Japanese grant program for the development of rural 
enterprises and small commercial agriculture with the 
assistance of the World Bank 109.1 " 
 - Development program for th e rural enterprises and small 
commercial agriculture with the assistance of the World 
Bank 751.0  "  
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General Services (cont’d) - Economic devel opment program of rural areas with the 
assistance of Internati onal Fund of Agricultural 
Development 3,172.4 Ministry of Agriculture 
    
 (g) Infrastructural services:  expe nditure 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 157.8 " 
 - Amelioration of irrigation lands  of Ararat plateau by means 
of realizing anti-flood measure 270.6 " 
 - Anti-flood measures carried out at the expense of the 
cooperative fund established in the framework of the 
"Increase of Food Production" Program of the Japanese 
Government 213.6 " 
 Artificial insemination measures 41.3 " 
 Provision of hydro-meteorological measures 2.2 " 
 Construction of border inspection posts 63.1 " 
 Capital repairs of buildings of agricultural importance 147.5 
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Payments for relief from natural 
disasters  Payments made for land or other production factors due to the 
natural disasters :   
 - Payments to farmers of Marzes (regional communities) who 
suffered from drought to compensate the payments for 
winter crops seed acquisition. 594.0 Ministry of Agriculture, Government 
Decision N 1071-A of 27 July 2006 on 
"Appropriation of funds to the 
Ministry of Agriculture of the 
Republic of Armenia and Organization 
of the Supporting Process for the 
Communities which Suffered from 
Drought" 
 
 
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