WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/ARG/30 
18 October 2010 
 (10-5343) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
 
The following submission, dated 16 September 2010, 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 years 2004/2005  and 2005/2006 . 
 
  
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Page 2 Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2004-2005 
 
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 Schedule) (from Section I of  Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached supporting tables) 
1 2 3 
75,021,292 1992 pesos 74,087,261 
  
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2005 
 
Measures Exempt from the Reduc tion Commitment – "Green Box" 
 
Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
General services  
Research   
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(a)) Special Fund for Tobacco Devel opment of new technologies fo r production in Corrientes, 
Misiones, Jujuy and Salta. 502,048 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 
 INTA Basic research a nd technological innovation prog ramme. 13,051,688 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Pest and disease control  
National Agriculture and 
Food Quality Service Core activities.  Senior manageme nt - administra tive, legal and 
technical services.  Plant protection. 5,471,011 SENASA 
 Agriculture and food control.  Approval of agro-chemicals and 
pharmacological products.  Laboratory services. 25,536,910 SENASA (Annex 2, paragraph 2(b)) 
 Animal health. 15,788,676 SENASA 
 SAGPyA Expanded sanitary controls, plan t health, sanitary surveillance and 
control. 655,519 Provincial agricultural 
services programme, 
PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
Training services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(c)) Special Fund for Tobacco Training of  technical specialis ts and producers. 297,751 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Extension and advisory services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(d)) Special Fund for Tobacco Advice and technical assistance for produc ers for activities related to 
diversification, conve rsion and training. 224,732 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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Page 4 Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
 INTA 
 Applied Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer (IAITT) 
programme.  This includes the Federal Support Programme for 
Sustainable Rural Development, PROFEDER (with the following 
strategies:  Rural Change, ProFam (family producer groups), 
Smallholdings ( Minifundio ), ProHuerta (food security), Integrated 
Projects and Local Development Projects), which is geared towards the 
management of innovation processes in  relation to research, education 
and technology transfer. 61,403,149 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Inspection services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(e)) Special Fund for Tobacco Administra tion and monitoring in Chaco, Ca tamarca, Corrientes, Jujuy, 
Misiones, Salta and Tucumán. 984,460 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 INV Control of the genuineness of wi ne products and alcohols.  This 
programme ensures technical contro l of the wine industry and of 
production of and trade in wine products, as well as monitoring of the 
production, circulation, fractionation and marketing of ethyl and methyl 
alcohol, with a view to protecting the community in relation to the 
genuineness of wine products and alc oholic beverages and their fitness 
for consumption. 7,130,616 INV (SAGPyA) 
Infrastructure services     
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(g)) Special Fund for Tobacco Civil engi neering work and improvement of the effluent treatment 
system in the province of Misiones. 641,400 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Installation of an anti-hail rock et system. 1,661,894 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 SAGPyA Rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems in the provinces of 
Chaco, Chubut, Mendoza, Neuquén an d Tucumán.  Minor building 
projects and water- and soil-quality studies. 9,497,311 Provincial agricultural 
services programme, 
PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
Other     
(Annex 2, paragraph 2: 
Other services) Special Fund for Tobacco Regularization of land te nure in the province of Misiones in favour of 
producer-occupiers. 110,670 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
      
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 Page 5Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Decoupled income support  
Agricultural Social 
Programme The Social Programme be nefits smallholders ( minifundistas ) in 
21 Argentine provinces through financ ial and technical assistance and 
training.  The eligibility requirements include:  having a monthly 
income level not exceeding twice the rural agricultural worker's wage, 
not employing any labour, living on the farm, and having working 
capital not exceeding $20,000.  Sm allholders who have formed a 
grouping may submit production projects  for a maximum of $1,200 per 
family and $200 in the case of on-farm consumption projects.  The 
Programme also finances technical a ssistance provided by independent 
institutions or experts for a period of not more than three years.  Upon 
receipt of the funds, beneficiary families undertake to repay them to a 
provincial revolving fund, which is used to finance new projects. 2,218,825 SAGPyA (Annex 2, paragraph 6(a)  
to (e)) 
Special Fund for Tobacco Assistance to tobacco-growing families to finance medical, health, 
biochemical and dental services  (measure benefiting over 110,000 
people). 816,644 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Social welfare for producers in the provinces of Corrientes, Catamarca 
and Misiones. 700,919 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Support for schooling for families of pr oducers in Catamarca. 34,208 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Support for trade association activities. 73,459 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Natural disaster relief 
payments  
(Annex 2, paragraph 8(a) 
to (e)) Agricultural Emergency 
Programme.  
Law No. 22913 Support for producers who suffered da mage from flooding, rainfall, hail 
and other adverse climatic phenomena in the provinces of Corrientes, 
Catamarca, Tucumán, Mi siones and La Rioja. 1,478,357 SAGPyA 
 Special Fund for Tobacco Support for producers who suffered damage from flooding and rainfall 
in the provinces of Catamarca, Misiones and Tucumán 1,166,620 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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Page 6 Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Structural adjustment 
assistance provided through 
investment aid  
(Annex 2, paragraph 11(a) 
to (f)) SAGPyA Technical and financial assistance  for low-income rural inhabitants and 
aboriginal communities in the provinces of Formosa, Corrientes, 
Chaco, Misiones, Catamarca, Jujuy,  Salta and Tucumán.  Support for 
project management, training activit ies with a view to improving and 
diversifying existing farms, and faci litation of technological progress in 
small production units. 1,220,794 Rural development 
project for the 
north-eastern Argentine 
provinces, 
PRODERNEA 
(SAGPyA) 
Rural development 
project for the 
north-western Argentine 
provinces, 
PRODERNOA 
(SAGPyA) 
 Special Fund for Tobacco Assistance for the financ ial or physical restructuring of production 
activities to remedy objectively demons trated structural disadvantages.  
Construction of centres, provisio n of supplementary equipment, 
processing and storage, land improve ment, and assistance for farm 
modernization. 19,219,465 DNPyEAyF (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 
INV - National Institute of Vitiviniculture 
  
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 Page 7Supporting Table DS:4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2004-2005 
 
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 pesos) Current total AMS (aggregate) 
 
 
(1992 pesos) 
1 2 3 4 
Tobacco  74,087,261 74,087,261 
  
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Page 8 Supporting Table DS:8 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2004-2005 
 
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support 
 
Description 
of basic 
products Calendar/ 
marketing year 
beginning... Measure 
type(s) Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
 
 
(1992 pesos/kg.)Production 
eligible to 
receive the 
applied 
administered 
price 
 
(tonnes) Market price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
 
 
(1992 pesos) Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(include 
calculation 
details) 
 
(1992 pesos) Non- 
exempt 
direct 
payments Other 
product- 
specific 
support Associated 
fees/levies Total 
monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment
 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 
(7+8+9-10) 12 
Tobacco 1 December 
2004 to 
30 November 
2005 Payment  
per unit 0.46 161,064 74,087,261 74,087,261 - - - 74,087,261 Ministry of 
Agriculture, 
Fisheries and Food/ 
Annual reports of 
the Conversion 
programme for 
tobacco-growing 
areas (PRAT) 
  
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 Page 9Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2005-2006 
 
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 Schedule) (from Section I of  Part IV of the Schedule) (from attached supporting tables) 
1 2 3 
75,021,292 1992 pesos 74,917,550 
  
  G/AG/N/ARG/30 
Page 10 Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2006 
 
Measures Exempt from the Reduc tion Commitment – "Green Box" 
 
Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
General services  
Research   
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(a)) Special Fund for Tobacco Devel opment of new technologies fo r production in Corrientes, 
Misiones, Jujuy and Salta. 589,606 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 INTA Basic research a nd technological innovation prog ramme. 19,525,632 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Pest and disease control  
National Agriculture and 
Food Quality Service Core activities.  Senior manageme nt - administra tive, legal and 
technical services.  Plant protection. 7,164,748 SENASA 
 Agriculture and food control.  Approval of agro-chemicals and 
pharmacological products.  Laboratory services. 44,413,814 SENASA (Annex 2, paragraph 2(b)) 
 Animal health. 24,911,003 SENASA 
 SAGPyA Expanded sanitary controls, plan t health, sanitary surveillance and 
control. 2,254,221 Provincial agricultural 
services programme, 
PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
Training services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(c)) Special Fund for Tobacco Training of  technical specialis ts and producers. 117,008 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Extension and advisory services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(d)) Special Fund for Tobacco Advice and technical assistance for produc ers for activities related to 
diversification, conve rsion and training. 846,994 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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 Page 11Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
 INTA Applied Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer (IAITT) 
programme.  This includes the Federal Support Programme for 
Sustainable Rural Development, PROFEDER (with the following 
strategies:  Rural Change, ProFam (family producer groups), 
Smallholdings ( Minifundio ), ProHuerta (food security), Integrated 
Projects and Local Development Projects), which is geared towards the 
management of innovation processes in  relation to research, education 
and technology transfer. 96,785,637 INTA (SAGPyA) 
Inspection services  
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(e)) Special Fund for Tobacco Administra tion and monitoring in Chaco, Ca tamarca, Corrientes, Jujuy, 
Misiones, Salta and Tucumán. 1,271,807 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 INV Control of the genuineness of wi ne products and alcohols.  This 
programme ensures technical contro l of the wine industry and of 
production of and trade in wine products, as well as monitoring of the 
production, circulation, fractionation and marketing of ethyl and methyl 
alcohol, with a view to protecting the community in relation to the 
genuineness of wine products and alc oholic beverages and their fitness 
for consumption. 8,390,710 INV (SAGPyA) 
Infrastructure services     
(Annex 2, paragraph 2(g)) Special Fund for Tobacco Installatio n of an anti-hail rocket sy stem. 1,716,756 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Civil engineering work and improve ment of the effluent treatment 
system in the province of Misiones. 899,580 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
 SAGPyA Rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems in the provinces of 
Chaco, Chubut, Mendoza, Neuquén an d Tucumán.  Minor building 
projects and water- and soil-quality studies. 5,805,904 Provincial agricultural 
services programme, 
PROSAP (SAGPyA) 
Direct payments to producers  
(Annex 2, paragraph 5)  Special Fund for Tobacco Support for the purchase of climate risk insurance and mandatory life 
insurance for rural workers. 6,528,482 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Assistance with the development of comp lementary services. 6, 164,013 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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Page 12 Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Decoupled income support  
Agricultural Social 
Programme The Social Programme be nefits smallholders ( minifundistas ) in 
21 Argentine provinces through financ ial and technical assistance and 
training.  The eligibility requirements include:  having a monthly 
income level not exceeding twice the rural agricultural worker's wage, 
not employing any labour, living on the farm, and having working 
capital not exceeding $20,000.  Sm allholders who have formed a 
grouping may submit production projects  for a maximum of $1,200 per 
family and $200 in the case of on-farm consumption projects.  The 
Programme also finances technical a ssistance provided by independent 
institutions or experts for a period of not more than three years.  Upon 
receipt of the funds, beneficiary families undertake to repay them to a 
provincial revolving fund, which is used to finance new projects. 1,163,312 SAGPyA (Annex 2, paragraph 6(a) 
to (e)) 
Special Fund for Tobacco Assistance to tobacco-growing families to finance medical, health, 
biochemical and dental services  (measure benefiting over 110,000 
people). 1,257,024 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Social welfare for producers in the provinces of Corrientes, Catamarca 
and Misiones. 155,986 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Services programme in favour of sma ll-scale producers in the province 
of Jujuy. 162,655 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
  Support for trade association activities. 678,054 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA) 
Natural disaster relief 
payments  
 
(Annex 2, paragraph 8(a) 
to (e)) Agricultural Emergency 
Programme.  
Law No. 22913 Support for producers who suffered da mage from flooding, rainfall, hail 
and other adverse climatic phenomena in the provinces of Corrientes, 
Catamarca, Tucumán, Mi siones and La Rioja. 1,405,894 SAGPyA 
 Special Fund for Tobacco Support for producers who suffered damage from flooding and rainfall 
in the provinces of Catamarca and Misiones. 527,765 DNPyEAyF (SAGPyA)  
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 Page 13Measure type Name and description of measure with refere nce to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure 
in year in question 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Structural adjustment 
assistance provided through 
investment aid  
(Annex 2, paragraph 11(a) 
to (f)) SAGPyA Technical and financial assistance  for low-income rural inhabitants and 
aboriginal communities in the provinces of Formosa, Corrientes, 
Chaco, Misiones, Catamarca, Jujuy,  Salta and Tucumán.  Support for 
project management, training activit ies with a view to improving and 
diversifying existing farms, and faci litation of technological progress in 
small production units. 1,860,826 Rural development 
project for the 
north-eastern Argentine 
provinces, 
PRODERNEA 
(SAGPyA) 
Rural development 
project for the 
north-western Argentine 
provinces, 
PRODERNOA 
(SAGPyA) 
 Special Fund for Tobacco Assistance for the financ ial or physical restructuring of production 
activities to remedy objectively demons trated structural disadvantages.  
Construction of centres, provisio n of supplementary equipment, 
processing and storage, land improve ment, and assistance for farm 
modernization. 14,162,498 DNPyEAyF (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 
INV - National Institute of Vitiviniculture 
  
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Page 14 Supporting Table DS:4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2005-2006 
 
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 pesos) Current total AMS (aggregate) 
 
 
(1992 pesos) 
1 2 3 4 
Tobacco  74,917,550 74,917,550 
  
   G/AG/N/ARG/30
 Page 15Supporting Table DS:8 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Argentina 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2005-2006 
 
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support 
 
Description 
of basic 
products Calendar/ 
marketing 
year 
beginning … Measure 
type(s) Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
 
 
(1992 pesos/kg.) Production 
eligible to 
receive the 
applied 
administered 
price 
 
(tonnes) Market price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
 
 
(1992 pesos) Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(include 
calculation 
details) 
 
(1992 pesos) Non- 
exempt 
direct 
payments Other 
product- 
specific 
support Associated 
fees/levies Total 
monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment
 
 
(1992 pesos) Data source 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 
(7+8+9-10) 12 
Tobacco 1 December 
2005 to 
30 November 
2006 Payment per 
unit 0.52 143,344 74,917,550 74,917,550 - - - 74,917,550 Ministry of 
Agriculture, 
Fisheries and Food/ 
Annual reports of 
the Conversion 
programme for 
tobacco-growing 
areas (PRAT) 
 
 
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