RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SCM/Q2/CHE/2
1October 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-3938)
Original: English Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
SUBSIDIES
Questions from JAPAN Regarding theNew
andFullNotification ofSWITZERLAND1
Thefollowing communication, dated 20September 1996, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission ofJapan.
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1. III. Contribution totheSwiss Office forDevelopment ofTrade (OSEC)
CouldSwitzerlandexplaintheunitoftheamountofsubsidyinparagraph1(iii)ofthenotification?
2. IV. Agricultural subsidies
There isadescription inthenotification thattheinformation relating toagricultural subsidies
bySwitzerland willbenotified totheCommittee onAgriculture. However, theagricultural subsidies
arealsosubject toreview attheCommittee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures. Inthis
connection, willSwitzerland notify theagricultural subsidies totheSCM Committee?
3. Could Switzerland explain thecontents andthereason ofnonotification about thefollowing
programmes?
(1) Technological Cooperation inEurope (EUREKA)
When didthisprogramme terminate?
Inwhich fieldwasthiscooperation made?
(2) Federal grant totheSwiss Electronics andMicro-Engineering Centre
(3) CIMandmicro-electronic training andresearch centres
(4) Federal lawonguarantees covering export risk
1G/SCM/N/3/CHE +Suppl.1.