WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/SVK/35
20 September 2002
(02-5051)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The attached notification concerning domestic support commitments for the calendar
year 2001  (Table DS:1)  was received from the delegation of the  Slovak Republic  on
11 September 2002.G/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 2Table DS:1
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Suppor t
Total AMS commitment level for period in
questionCurrency 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)
12 3
10,140.0 million Sk 7,532.0G/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 3Supporting Table DS:1
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
Measures exempt from the re duction commitment - "Green Box"
Measure type Name and description of measure with reference to
criteria in Annex 2Monetary value of
measure in year in
question
(million Sk)Data sources
12 3 4
(a) "general services"
1. product sale promotion
2. advisory services3. research4. marketing services8
283020
(b) "public stockholding for food security purposes" - -Ministry of Finance of SR and Ministry of
Agriculture of SR from financial settlement
with the State Budget
(c) "domestic food aid" - -
(d) "decoupled income support" - -
(e) "income insurance and income safety-net programmes" - -(f) "payments for relief from natural disasters" partial damage reimbursement 43(g) "structural adjustment assistance provided through
producer retirement programmes"--
(h) "structural adjustment assistance provided through
resource retirement programmes"--
(i) "structural adjustment assistance provided through
investment aids"--
(j) "environmental programmes" ecological procedures 20
(k) "regional assistance programmes" agri-tourism and rural development 73G/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 4Measure type Name and description of measure with reference to
criteria in Annex 2Monetary value of
measure in year in
question
(million Sk)Data sources
12 3 4
(l) "other"
1. conservation of riding horse breeding
2. bee breeding3. promotion of milk consumption by pupils4. cows without market milk production5. countervailing payments in crops in crops
production.84
50
43
942Ministry of Finance of SR and Ministry of
Agriculture of SR from financial settlement
with the State BudgetG/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 5Supporting Table DS:3
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – Direct Payments  under Production-Limiting Programmes – "Exempt Direct Payments"
Measure type Name and description of measure with reference to
criteria in Annex 2Monetary value of
measure in year in
question
(million Sk)Data sources
12 3 4
(a) "payments based on fixed area and yields"
(b) "payments based on 85 per cent or less of the base level
of production"
(c) "livestock payments made on a fixed number of head"set aside programme 129 Ministry of Finance of SR and Ministry of
Agriculture of SR from financial settlement
with the State BudgetG/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 6Supporting Table DS:4
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
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)
(million Sk)Product-specific equivalent measurements
of support
 (from Supporting Table DS:8 below)Current Total AMS (aggregate)
(million Sk)
12 3 4
Milk powder production 3 3
Total non-product-specific AMS (from Supporting
Table DS:9)7,529
Current Total AMS 7,532G/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 7Supporting Table DS:7
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support:  Other Product-Specific Support and Total Product-Specific AMS
Description of
basic productCalendar year
2001Measure type(s) Other product-
specific
budgetary
outlays
(million Sk)Other product-
specific support
(include
calculation
details)Associated
fees/leviesTotal other
product-
specific
support
(million Sk)Market price
support
(Supporting
Table DS:5)Non-exempt
direct
payments
(Supporting
Table DS:6)Total AMS
(million Sk)Data sources
12 3 4 56 7
(4+5-6)89 1 0
(7+8+9)11
Milk powder
productionFeeding mixture
and substitute
production
subsidy3 - - 3 - - 3 Ministry of
Agriculture of
the Slovak
RepublicG/AG/N/SVK/35
Page 8 Supporting Table DS:9
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Slovak Republic
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2001
Non-Product-Specific AMS
Measure type(s) Calendar year
2001Non-product-specific
budgetary outlays
(million Sk)Other non-product-
specific support
(include calculation
details)Associated
fees/leviesTotal non-product-
specific support
(million Sk)Data sources
12 3 4 5 6
(3+4-5)7
Worse natural conditions 3,578 - - 3,578
Livestock breeding promotion 191 -- 191
Cow breeding for milk production 1,056 -- 1,056Ministry of Finance of SR and
Ministry of Agriculture of SR
from financial settlement with
the State Budget
Compensation payments in crops
production316 -- 316
Plant genetic sources 70 70
Animal genetic sources 190 -- 190
Partial interest reimbursement from
credits156 -- 156
Partial insurance reimbursement 52 -- 52
Reconstruction and modernization 1,735 -- 1,735
Irrigation 185 -- 185
Total non-product-specific AMS 7,529 7,529
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