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26 March  2024 
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original:  English  
 
  
SUBSIDIES  
QUESTIONS POSED BY AUSTRALIA REGARDING THE  
NEW AND FULL NOTIFICATION OF  BRAZIL1 
The following communication, dated and received on 25  March  2024, is being circulated at the 
request of the delegation of Australia . 
 
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Australia thanks Brazil  for its latest subsidy notification and welcomes its efforts on contributing to 
the transparency of subsidy programs . Australia poses the f ollowing questions regarding programs 
contained in its notification:  
3.2 Programme for Vessel Fleet Enlargement and Modernization  
Australia understands that the program relates to performance bonuses to recipients where these 
recipients have taken out loans  and the repayment of loan instalments are on time and meet 
sustainability criteria and improvements in worker conditions . 
Questi on 1 
Could Brazil please clarify whether the lo ans are provided by government  or commercially ? 
Question 2  
What is the purpose of these loans  and what are the criteria for recipients of the loans ? 
Question 3  
Do the criteria for these loans or the performance bonuses relate to , or contingent on , where the 
fishing takes place?  
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1 G/SCM/N/401/BRA . 