 
. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SCM/Q2/JPN/35 
19 January 2004 
 (04-0151) 
Committee on Subsidies 
and Countervailing Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
SUBSIDIES  
 
Questions Posed by the EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES  
Regarding the New and Full Notification of JAPAN1 
 
  The following communication, dated 15 January 2 004, is being circulated at the request of the 
Permanent Delegation of the European Commission.  
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INDUSTRY:  
I.  ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT:   
 Please specify which costs are eligible for assistance and how many projects have received such assistance under this programme.  K.  REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY:  
 
 To whom are the results of the subsidised research available?    Q.  REAL WORLD COMPUTING:    Please explain the nature of the Real World Computing Partnership and its relation with 
commercial production of information processing technology. 
 R. INFORMATION PROCESSING:    What proportion of research costs can be met by the programme? How many institutions 
benefited from this programme? 
 S.  INFRASTRUCTURE CONCERNING INFORMATION AND ECONOMY:    Please explain in more detail the purpose and operation of this programme. 
 
U.  PETROLEUM REFINERY:    Please explain why fiscal year 1999 saw a particularly large amount budgeted. 
 
                                                     
 
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 X.  REFINING TECHNOLOGY OF OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES ETC:  
  Please explain in greater detail the operation of  this programme and the budget allocated to 
the different objectives and purposes listed.  What is th e nature of the three direct beneficiaries of the 
programme and do they pass the subsidies through to  other beneficiaries in the commercial oil sector? 
 FINANCIAL:  
D.  SPECIAL DEPRECIATION ON CERT AIN MACHINERY USED IN ADVANCED 
TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES: 
 
 Is this programme available in addition to other programmes mentioned under “industry”. 
What do the “industrial shipment figures” mentioned in the last paragraph mean? 
 
 
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