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ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/CHE/16
22 June 1998
(98-2504)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning new or modified domestic support measures exempt
from reduction (Table DS:2) for the calendar year 1997 was received from the delegation of
Switzerland  on 12 June 1998.G/AG/N/CHE/16
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Switzerland-Liechtenstein
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:
New or modified domestic support me asures exempt from reduction
(1) Full title of measure:
Marketing of eggs:  contribution in favour of producers.
(2) Domestic legislation reference:
- Ordinance of 11 April 1961 concerning the egg price compensation fund;
- Ordinance of 24 January 1996 concerning the egg market.
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in:
On request domestic egg producers who fulfil the conditions of animal housing systems that
ensure a particularly high standard of care and/or the conditions of a controlled free-range
system receive for three years, during a transitional period of five years, three centimes per
egg for consumption.
(4) Cost of measure:
Sw F 3 million, in 1997.
(5) Date of entry into effect:
1 January 1997
(6) Period of application:
1997-2001
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)):
Eggs for consumption.
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