WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/ARM/11 
16 May 2007 
 (07-2012) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
 
 The following submission, dated 8 May 2007, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Armenia .  The addendum regards the notification concerning new or modified domestic 
support measures exem pt from reduction ( Table DS:2 ). 
 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Armenia  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
(1) Full title of measure:  The implementation of preventive and diagnostic measures on the 
basis of the plant quarantine and laboratory test s of the phytosanitary state of agricultural 
cultivated plants. 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:  State Budget (10.04.02) 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: 
  Annex 2:  Green Box:  "General Services", (b) pest and disease control, including general and 
product-specific pest and disease control measure s, such as early-warning systems, quarantine 
and eradication. 
 
The objective of the programme is to regulate, on the basis of research and observations, the 
areas of quarantine and harmful organisms;  fo recast of their reproduction and development, 
diagnosis and warning, as well as fulfilment of supervision over the quality of toxic 
substances, used in the Republic. 
(4) Cost of measure:  89.0 million Drams 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  1 January 2007 
(6) Period of application:  Calendar year 2007 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s):  No individual product 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Armenia  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
(1) Full title of measure:  The implementation of the Programme  on Counteracting Avian 
Influenza, carried out with the support of the World Bank. 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:  State Budget (10.05.07) 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: 
 
 Annex 2:  Green Box:  "General Services", (b) pest and disease control, including general and 
product-specific pest and disease control measure s, such as early-warning systems, quarantine 
and eradication.  
The aim is to establish anti–epidemic stability  in the Republic, to acquire vaccines, 
laboratorial equipments, disinfectants and other necessary tools to combat Avian Influenza 
(4) Cost of measure:  1,109.3 million Drams 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  1 January 2007 
(6) Period of application:  Calendar year 2007 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s):  No individual product 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Armenia  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
(1) Full title of measure:  The implementation of the Japanese Grant Programme on 
Counteracting Avian Influenza, carried out with the support of the World Bank. 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:  State Budget (10.05.08) 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: 
 
 Annex 2:  Green Box:  "General Services", (b) pest and disease control, including general and 
product-specific pest and disease control measure s, such as early-warning systems, quarantine 
and eradication. 
 
The aim is to establish anti–epidemic stability  in the Republic, to acquire vaccines, 
laboratorial equipments, disinfectants and other necessary tools to combat Avian Influenza. 
(4) Cost of measure:  181.2 million Drams 
(5) Date of entry into effect:  1 January 2007 
(6) Period of application:  Calendar year 2007 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s):  No individual product 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Armenia  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
(1) Full title of measure:  Protection and improvement of agricultural landscapes and restoration 
of engineering structures. 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:  State Budget (10.02.06) 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: 
 
 Annex 2:  Green Box:  "General Services", (g) infrastructural services.  
 
Implementation of the capital works on the impr ovement of agricultural lands: protection, 
fundamental amelioration of the secondary lands  salted in different degrees by way of 
chemical melioration, and restoration of drainage systems.  As a result the lands will be included in the agricultural turnover, the physi cal and chemical properties of lands will be 
improved and the fertility will be increased. 
(4) Cost of measure:  268.6 million Drams   
(5) Date of entry into effect:  1 January 2007 
(6) Period of application:  Calendar year 2007 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s):  No individual product 
 
 
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