WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/CHE/22
29 June 1999
(99-2682)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
On 4 June 1999, the delegation of Switzerland  transmitted to the Secretariat the following
notification concerning domestic support commitments for the calendar year 1998 (Table DS:1 and
the relevant Supporting Tables).G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 2Table DS:1
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar Year
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)
12 3
4,611 Swiss francs (million) 3,273G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 3Supporting Table DS:1
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar year
Measures exempt from the re duction commitment - "Green Box"
Measure type Name and description of measure taking into account the criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of the measure during the
reporting period (Sw F million)Data sources
12 3 4
(a)  General services
Family allowances for small farmers 120.4 OFAS
Family allowances for agricultural workers 26.7 OFAS
Research and dissemination of information 75.5 OFAG
Disease and epizootic control 4.7 OFAG
Cantonal spending on agriculture:  administration, land improvement and rural
buildings, animal tending, health and social measures300.6 AFF
Dissemination of information (milk) 0.3 OFAG
Dissemination of information (arboriculture) 0.4 OFAG
Milk quality control 5.2 OFAG
Fruit and juice quality control 0.2 OFAGGrape harvest control 0.9 OFAG
(b)  Public stock holding for food security purposes
Guarantee stocks (potatoes) 0.9 OFAG
Guarantee stocks (apple juice concentrate) 1.2 OFAG
(c)  Domestic food aid
Sale of potatoes at reduced prices to people in need 0.0 OFAG
Sale of fruit at reduced prices to people in need 0.3 OFAGG/AG/N/CHE/22
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(d)  Decoupled income support
Payments to owners of cows who do not market milk 89.7 OFAG
Direct additional payments:  payment for services provided in the general
interest (protection and maintenance of  the countryside, safeguarding the
viability of rural areas, supply of foodstuffs, preservation of the basic naturalenvironment necessary to life);  supplement to market earnings809.3 OFAG
(e)  Income guarantee programme and programmes providing an income security mechanism
None -O F A G
(f)  Natural disaster relief payments
None     - OFAG
(g)  Structural adjustment assistance through programmes encouraging producers to cease their activities
None -O F A G
(h)  Structural adjustment assistance through programmes for the withdrawal of production resources
Relief purchasing (also regional assistance) 4.6 OFAG
(i)  Structural adjustment assistance through investment support
Assistance to improve livestock breeding 21.0 OFAG
Assistance to small farms 3.9 OFAG
Agricultural structural adjustment 75.0 OFAGInvestment credits (loss of interest on the total credits granted) 70.0 OFAG
(j)  Environmental protection
Payments for special ecological services (integrated production, organic
farming, development and working of environmental compensation areas,animal-keeping programmes)750.0 OFAG
Egg disposal, producers' reconversion contribution 5.0 OFAG
Payments for summer pasturing 66.9 OFAGPayments for set aside pasture land and renewable raw materials 18.7 OFAG
Payments for extensive cereal production 43.2 OFAG
Payments for environmentally-friendly wine-growing methods 0.1 OFAGG/AG/N/CHE/22
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(k)  Regional assistance programmes
Non-silage allowances 64.0 OFAG
Allowances for milk processed into cheese 184.0 OFAG
Supplements for the manufacture of hard cheese in the silage area 6.1 OFAG
Premiums for amalgamation in the cheese industry 2.0 OFAG
Allowances for the costs of cattle owners in mountain and hill areas 261.9 OFAG
Compensatory payments for cultivating fields under difficult conditions 95.1 OFAG
(l)  Other
(1) Marketing services:
Advertising to promote milk and dairy products 60.1 OFAGAdvertising and research to  promote potatoes 0.6 OFAG
Advertising and research to promote fruit and juice 1.7 OFAGPromotion of the sale of wines and wine products 5.1 OFAGAdvertising to promote rapeseed oil 0.4 OFAG
(2) Other:  None
TOTAL OF TABLE 3,176.2
Key: AFF: Federal Finance Administration
OFAS: Federal Office for Security, Bern.
OFAG: Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern.G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 6Supporting Table DS:4
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar Year
Calculation of the current total aggregate measurement of support
Description of basic products
(including non-product specific AMS)Product-specific AMS (from Supporting
Tables D:5 to D:7 below)
(Sw F million)Product-specific measurements of support
(from Supporting Table DS:8 below)
(Sw F million)Current total AMS
(aggregate)
(Sw F million)
12 3 4
(1) Milk and dairy products 1,010.4 0.0 1,010.4
(2) Wheat 253.0 0.0 253.0
(3) Secondary cereals (maize, barley, oats) 244.3 0.0 244.3(4) Sugar beet 80.3 0.0 80.3(5) Oilseeds (rapeseed, soy bean, sunflower seed) 46.6 0.0 46.6(6) Bovine meat 594.6 0.0 594.6(7) Pig-meat 709.6 0.0 709.6(8) Poultry 146.3 0.0 146.3(9) Eggs 143.2 0.0 143.2(10) Potatoes including seed potatoes 14.3 0.0 14.3(11) Cider apples 16.8 0.0 16.8(12) Cider pears 2.8 0.0 2.8(13) Tobacco 8.2 0.0 8.2(14) Other fruit (apricots) 0.0 2.4 2.4 (15) Wine growing 0.0 0.0 0.0
TOTAL 3,270.4 2.4 3,272.8G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 7Supporting Table DS:5
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar Year
Product-specific aggregate measurements of support:  Market price support
Description of basic products Calendar
year 1998Measure types(s) Applied
administered
price (Sw F/t.)External
reference price
(Sw F/t.)Eligible
production
(1,000 tonnes)Associated
fees/levies
(Sw F million)Total market
price support
(Sw F million)Data sources
12 3 4 5 6 7 8
((4-5)*6)-7)9
(1) Milk Guaranteed price 845 483 3,090 102.8 1,015.8 OFAG
(2) Wheat Guaranteed price 850 281 580 77.0 253.0 OFAG
(3) Secondary cereals:
Maize Price support 530 238 190 0.0 55.5 OFAG
Barley Price support 503 159 369 0.0 126.8 OFAGOats Price support 463 226 40 0.0 9.5 OFAGTotal Price support 599 191.7 OFAG
(4) Sugar beet Guaranteed price 141 70 1,126 0.0 80.3 OFAG
(5) Rapeseed Guaranteed price 1,500 713 47 0.0 37.2 OFAG(5) Soy bean/sunflower seed Guaranteed price 1,650 842 12 0.0 9.4 OFAG(6) Bovine meat Price support 6,599 3,027 148 0.0 528.7 OFAG(7) Pig meat Price support 4,807 1,750 232 0.0 709.2 OFAG(8)  Poultry Price support 3,997 673 44 0.0 146.3 OFAG
(9) Eggs in shell Price support 4,383 928 40 0.0 138.2 OFAG
(11) Cider apples Price support 319 117 83 0.0 16.8 OFAG(12) Cider pears Price support 249 96 18 0.0 2.8 OFAGG/AG/N/CHE/22
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((4-5)*6)-7)9
(13) Tobacco Price support 14,480 8,993 1.5 0.0 8.2 OFAG
TOTAL 3,137.5
Key: OFAG: Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern.G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 9Supporting Table DS:7
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar Year
Product-specific aggregate measurements of support:  Other product-specific support and total product-specific AMS
Description of basic
productCalendar year Measure type(s) Other product-
specific
budgetary
outlays
(Sw F million)Other product-
specific
support
(including
calculation
details)
(Sw F million)Associated
fees/levies
(Sw F million)Total other
product-
specific
support
(Sw F million)Market price
support
(Supporting
Table DS:5)
(Sw F million)Non-exempt
direct
payments
(Supporting
Table DS:6)
(Sw F million)Total AMS
(Sw F million)Data
sources
12 3  4 5 6 7
((4+5+6)89 1 0
(7+8+9)11
(1) MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
Market price support
Individual tax on surplus
production
Total 0.0 0.05.4
5.4 -5.41,015.8
1,015.8 0.0 1,010.4OFAG
OFAG
OFAG
(2)   WHEAT
Market price support 253.0 OFAG
Milling premium
Production subsidies for difficult
areas
 Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 253.0 0.0 253.0 OFAG
(3) SECONDARY CEREALS (MAIZE, BARLEY, OATS)
Market price support
Crop premium for feed grains,
basic premium
Crop premium for feed grains,
supplement for difficult conditions
Total56.2
0.0
52.60.0
0.00.00.0
0.00.0 52.6191.7
191.7 0.0 244.3OFAG
OFAG
OFAG
(4) SUGAR BEET
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.080.3
80.3 0.0 80.3OFAG
OFAGG/AG/N/CHE/22
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(5) OILSEEDS (RAPESEED AND SOY BEAN)
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.046.6
46.6 0.0 46.6OFAG
OFAG
(6) BOVINE MEAT
Market price support 528.7
Payments to improve livestock
farming and hygiene65.9 OFAG
 Total 65.9 0.0 0.0 65.9 528.7 0.0 594.6 OFAG
(7) PIG-MEAT
Market price support 709.2 OFAG
Sine health service 0.4Payments to improve livestock
farming and hygiene
Total 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.4 709.2 0.0 709.6 OFAG
(8)      POULTRY
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0146.3
146.3 0.0 146.3OFAG
OFAG
(9)      EGGS
Market price support 138.2 OFAG
Payments for egg collection 5.0 OFAG
Total 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 138.2 0.0 143.2 OFAG
(10) POTATOES, INCLUDING SEED POTATOES
Market price support
Seed potatoes 2.20.0
OFAG
Utilization of surpluses within the
country through drying8.3 OFAG
Utilization of surpluses within the
country through green feeding3.9 OFAG
Total 14.3 0.0 0.0 14.3 0.0 0.0 14.3 OFAGG/AG/N/CHE/22
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(11) CIDER APPLES
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.016.8
16.8 0.0 16.8OFAG
OFAG
(12) CIDER PEARS
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.02.8
2.8 0.0 2.8OFAG
OFAG
(13) TOBACCO
Market price support
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.08.2
8.2 0.0 8.2OFAG
OFAG
TOTAL 3,270.4
Key: OFAG: Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern.G/AG/N/CHE/22
Page 12Supporting Table DS:8
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
REPORTING PERIOD:  1998 Calendar year
Product-specific equivalent measurements of support
Description of basic
productsCalendar
year
1998Measure type(s) Applied
administered
priceProduction
eligible to
receive the
applied
administered
priceMarket price
support
budgetary
outlays
(Sw F million)Equivalent
measurement of
support
(including
calculation
details)
(Sw F million)Non-
exempt
direct
paymentsOther
product-
specific
supportAssociated
fees/
levies
(Sw F million)Total
monetary
value of
equivalent
commitment
(Sw F million)Data
sources
12 34 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1
(7+8+9+10)12
(14) Other fruit (apricots) Utilization of apricots 0.7 0.7 0.7 OFAG
Crop renewal 1.7 1.7 1.7 OFAG
Total 2.4 2.4 2.4 OFAG
(15) Wine growing Subsidies for
industrial use0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OFAG
Replenishment of
vineyards0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OFAG
Measures to promote
sale of the harvest0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OFAG
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 OFAG
TOTAL 2.4 2.4 2.4 OFAG
Key:  OFAG:  Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern.
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