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24 March 2022  
(22-2508) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original: English  
 
SUBSIDIES  
QUESTIONS POSED BY AUSTRALIA REGARDING THE NEW AND FULL  
NOTIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (IRELAND)1 
The following communication, dated and received on 22 March 2022, is being circulated at the 
request of the delegation of Australia.  
 
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Australia thanks the European Union for its subsidy notification in relation to Ireland and welcomes 
its efforts on contributing to the transparency of subsidy programs. Australia poses the following 
questions re garding programs contained in its notification:  
 
44 SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES SCHEME  
 
Part B of the Scheme (Fleet Improvement Projects) provides grants to owners of commercial fishing 
vessels for the purchase of capital equipment.  
 
Question 1  
 
What are the conditionalities for receipt of these grants? For example, are the grants approved 
subject to a fishing vessel increasing its capacity and length of period at sea?  
 
Question 2  
 
Are these grants contingent on where the fishing takes place?  
 
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1 G/SCM/N/372/EU/A dd.14 