WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION           G/AG/N/ARM/9 
4 August 2006 
 (06-3763) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 8 June 2006, 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  2005 . 
 
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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 2005 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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Page 2 Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2005 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box" 
 
Measure Type Name and description of m easure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question 
(Dram million) Data Sources 
1 2 3 4 
General Services    
 (a) Research :   
 - Land agrochemical research and fertility enhancement 
measures 34.6 State Budget (10.02.02) 
 - Special measure services for stock-breeding and seed-
growing implementation 0.9 State Budget (10.07.01) 
 - Seed quality and st ate breeding tests through the "Centre of 
Artificial Selection Advantag es, Protection, and Seed 
Quality Test" SJSC 21.3 State Budget (10.07.02) 
    
 (b) Pest and disease control : 
 Plant protection:   
 - Plant quarantine measures 55.0 State Budget (10.04.02) 
 - Plant protection measures 81.9 State Budget (10.04.03) 
  Veterinary and anti-epidemic measures and quarantine:   
 - Measures related to laboratory diagnostics of animal 
diseases and examination for raw products and materials of 
animal origin 142.1 State Budget (10.05.01) 
 - Necessary accessory acquisition for anti-epidemic measures 
relating to vaccines and other necessary measures 666.5 State Budget (10.05.02) 
     
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General Services (cont'd) - Organizing of veterinary service, anti-epidemic measures, 
livestock disease prevention through the regional 
community leaders 229.8 State Budget (10.05.05) 
 (d) Extension and advisory services:  transfer of information  
 and the results of research to producers and consumers:    
 - Education and science 250.0 State Budget (10.06.07) 
 - Assistance to gathering agricultural data 26.5 State Budget (10.07.05) 
 - Specification of irrigati on standards and regimes for 
cultivated plants 19.3 State Budget (10.02.07) 
    
 (e) Inspection services :   
 - Inspection of quarantine limitations th rough the police 
platoon adjunct body of the government 14.0 State Budget (10.05.04) 
    
 (f) Marketing and promotion services :   
 - Agricultural Improvements Program with the World Bank 
co-financing 24.8 State Budget (10.07.10) 
    
 (g) Infrastructural services:  directed only to the  
 implementation of cap ital works, including :   
  Organizing of basic work of the land improvement:   
 - Amelioration and irrigation of the natu ral pasture 157.9 Stat e Budget (10.02.06) 
 - Measures for desalination of  Ararat plateau irrigation la nds 18.5 State Budget (10.02.05) 
 - Construction of inspection points on border 5.2 State Budget (14.05.06) 
 - Provision for artificial inseminati on measures 40.9 State Budget (10.07.04) 
 - Provision for hydro-meteorological measures 2.2 State Budget (10.07.03) 
 - The implementation of the assumed commitments of the 
state in the process of the acquisition of anti-hail 
equipments 73.2 State Budget (10.07.09) 
 - Hail suppression measures by the cooperative fund 
established in the framework of the "Development of Food 
Production" Program of the Japanese Government 252.01 State Budget (10.07.11)  
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Public stockholding for food security 
purposes - Expenditures in relation to the accumulation and holding of 
stocks of products which form an integral part of a food 
security programme identified in national legislation 695.2 State Budget (14.06.01) 
Payments for relief from natural 
disasters Payments made for land or other production factors due to the 
natural disasters    
 - Payments to farmers of marz (regional) communities who 
suffered from different disaster s to compensate the seed 
acquisition and irriga tion water payments 300.0 State Budget, G overnment Decision 
N 4112-A of 25 August 2005 on 
"Appropriation of funds to the 
Ministry of Agriculture of the 
Republic of Armenia" 
 - Appropriate funds for Armavir Regional Council to provide 
the payments for some farmers to relieve the damages by 
hail and for some water users for the purpose of providing 
annual irrigation payments in part in 2005 42.5 State Budget, G overnment Decision 
N 1414-A of 1 September 2005 on 
"Amendments in the Decision of 
N 976-N of 14 July 2005 of the 
Government of the Republic of 
Armenia" 
    
 
 
 1 As a result of a misprint in the Notification G/AG/ N/ARM/6, 25.4 was notified instead of 254 million AMD. 
 
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