WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/ARM/16 
4 July 2008 
 (08-3223) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 2 July 2008, 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  2007 . 
  
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Page 2 Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
Total AMS commitment level for period in question Currency Current Total AMS 
(from Section 1 of Part IV of the Schedule) (from Section 1 of  Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached Supporting Tables) 
1 2 3 
   
 million AMD (Armenian Dram) de minimis 
   
  
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box" 
 
Measure Type Name and description of m easure with reference to the criteria in 
Annex 2 Monetary value of measure of the 
year in question 
(AMD million) Data Sources 
1 2 3 4 
General Services    
 (a) Research :   
 - Land agrochemical research and fertility enhancement measures 42.3 Ministry of Agriculture 
 - Practical research programmes of fundamental and significant 
importance for scientific and scientific engineering activity 94.9 " 
 - Services of special measures for stock-breeding and seed-growing 0.9 " 
 - Seed quality inspection and state sort testing 28.3 " 
    
 (b) Pest and disease control : 
 Plant protection:   
 -  Plant protection measures 288.0 " 
 -  Disease prevention services on the basis of laboratory examination 
of monitoring of plant quarantine  and phytosanitary condition of 
agricultural cultivated plants 89.0 " 
 
Veterinary and anti-epidemic measures and quarantine:   
 -  Acquisition of vaccines and necessary accessories for other anti-
epidemic measures. 
 842.9 
 
 "  
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General Services (cont’d) - Or ganization of veterinary serv ice, anti-epidemic measures, 
livestock disease prevention serv ices through regional community 
leaders 383.6 
 Ministry of Agriculture 
 -  Measures related to laboratory di agnosis of animal diseases   and 
examination for raw materials and stuff of animal origin  190.3 
 " 
 - Programme for combating avian influenza with the support of the 
World Bank 407.4 " 
 - Japanese grant programme for combating avian influenza with the 
support of the World Bank 73.3  
    
 (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 331.6 " 
 - Assistance to acquiring agricultural data. 0.0 " 
 - Financing for Marz (Regional) Centres of Agricultural Assistance 
(AAMCs) and the Republican Centre of Agricultural Assistance 
(AARC) with the purpose of realizing agricultural advisory 
services. 57.6 " 
    
 (e) Inspection services :   
 - Inspection of quarantine limitati ons through the veterinary platoon 
of the police, an adjunct body to the  RA Government 14.0 " 
    
 (f) Marketing and promotion services :    
 - Japanese grant programme fo r the development of rural 
enterprises and small commercial agriculture with the support of 
the World Bank 110.5 " 
 - Development programme for th e rural enterprises and small 
commercial agriculture with the support of the World Bank 1,936.6 "  
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General Services (cont’d) - Economic devel opment programme of rural areas with the 
assistance of International F und of Agricultural Development 2,594.7 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 299.8 " 
 - Improvement and maintenance of agricultural lands and 
reconstruction of engineering structures 255.9 " 
 - Primary measures for cleaning channels of rivers and streams and 
for reinforcement of banks 28.6 " 
 - The implementation of reinforc ement works of the banks of the 
River Araks in the area of Meghri in Syunik Region 89.5 " 
 - Capital repairs of buildings of agricultural importance 145.2 " 
 - Artificial insemination measures 34.1 " 
 - Provision of hydro-meteorological measures 2.2 
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Page 6 Supporting Table DS:4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2007 
 
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) 
 
AMD million Product-specific equiva lent measurements 
of support  
(from Supporting Table DS:8 below) 
AMD million Current Total AMS (aggregate) 
 
 
AMD million 
1 2 3 4 
Non-product-specific AMS (from Supporting Table DS:9 below) 316.3  316.3
1 
    
Total AMS   de minimis 
 
1 The total value of agricultural pr oduction in 2007 was 633.9 billion AMD. 
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 Page 7Supporting Table DS:9 
 
 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Armenia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar year 2007 
 
Non-Product-Specific AMS 
 
 
Measure type(s) Calendar year  
2007 Non-product-
specific 
budgetary outlays
 
AMD million Other non-product 
specific support 
(include calculation 
details) 
 Associated fees/levies 
 
 
 Total non-product-
specific support 
 
 
AMD million Data sources 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
(3+4-5) 7 
Assistance to land users of up to 7 
acres  166.3 - - 166.3 Ministry of Agriculture 
Assistance for acquisition of 
nitrogen fertilizers  150.0 - - 150.0 Ministry of Agriculture 
Total     316.3  
 
 
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