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ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/CZE/53 
17 February 2004 
 (04-0652) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
  The following submission, dated 9 February 2004, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of the Czech Republic .  The notification concerns new or modified domestic support 
measures exempt from reduction ( Table DS:2 ). G/AG/N/CZE/53 
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 Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Czech Republic  
 
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
 New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction 
 
 
1. Full title of measure:  Aid to alleviate damage caused in agriculture by the floods 
 
2. Domestic legislation references:  Government Decrees No. 1018 of 14 October 2002 and 
No.1220 of 2 December 2002 
 
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria (i.e. those in Annex 2): 
 
 The purpose of this subsidy programme is to provide finance to partly compensate the 
damage to farm enterprises the crops of  which suffered from the floods in 2002. 
 
 The programme conforms to the general criteria of Paragraph 1 of Anne x 2  of the Agreement 
on Agriculture: 
 
a) the programme is provided through a public ly funded government programme not 
involving transfers from consumers and, 
b) the programme does not have the effect of providing price support to producers. 
 
 In addition, it meets all the policy-specifi c criteria under Paragraph 8 of Annex 2 of the 
Agreement on Agriculture under the  payments  for relief from natural disasters category. 
 
4. Cost of measure:  For 2002:  K č 976.9 million 
 5. Date of entry into effect:  14 October 2002 
 
6. Period of application:  As from 14 October 2002 
 7. Product to principally benefit (if any individual products(s)):   No individual product 
 
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