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Table A4.3 List of agricultural support programmes notified to the WTO, 2022
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Programme: Technical Assistance Funds
Description: Financing for contracting consultancy services for small and medium-sized agricultural producers, including for designing irrigation projects under the Irrigation and Energy Efficiency Pre-Investment Programmes.
Focus of activity: Advisory services
Implementing entity: Ministry of Agriculture and CORFO
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Table A4.3 List of agricultural support programmes notified to the WTO, 2022
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Programme: Agricultural Emergency Fund
Description: Assistance for the agricultural sector to offset the adverse effects of climatic events.
Focus of activity: Financial assistance
Implementing entity: Ministry of Agriculture
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1.8.   (...) The IMF considers that, after an impressive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chilean economy is undergoing a necessary transition towards sustainable growth amid a challenging external environment, it therefore expects that year-on-year GDP growth will not recover until the last quarter of 2023(...)

4.23.   In April 2022, Chile redirected resources from existing programmes to create a new programme, called Siembra por Chile, which consists of a package of measures to reactivate the rural economy, create jobs, ensure food security and mitigate the recent rise in input prices (fertilizers and seed) and climate impacts. (...)

Beyond the progress made in the Doha Round on the basis of mandates, it is equally important for this forum to generate discussion of ways to provide the WTO with a renewed vision with which it can address increasingly pressing trade related issues such as climate change, renewable energy, energy security, competition and investment policy.

Chile's accession to the OECD is an important milestone for both the country itself and the region because Chile is only the second Latin American country to join the organization. It is also important because it challenges the country technically and politically to compare and enhance its public policies and then align them with international practice. Membership has enabled it to pursue institutional strengthening in legal matters and to develop high level policies in various areas including education, labour markets, financial regulation, environmental protection, reform of the State, international trade and investment. (...)

Chile has also benefited from the OECD's technical experience in supplementing its policy design procedures in a wide variety of areas such as anti corruption, the environment, education, reduction of inequalities, governance, regional development and transparency, as part of the strategy to achieve inclusive growth and economic development, and to narrow inequality gaps.

More than a decade after the entry into force of Law No. 19.300 and having taken account of one of the recommendations made by the OECD in its Environmental Performance Review of Chile in 2005, which emphasized the need to strengthen the environmental framework, Chile embarked upon a process to redesign the environmental institutions. This resulted in the enactment in January 2010 of Law No. 20.417 establishing the Ministry of the Environment, the Environmental Assessment Service and the Environmental Regulatory Authority. It also established a Council of Ministers for Sustainability and Climate Change.

The Ministry's responsibilities are to formulate and implement environmental policies and plans and to design regulations. The principal task of the Council of Ministers is to make proposals to the President of the Republic concerning sustainability policies and criteria. The Environmental Assessment Service administers the environmental assessment system and issues decisions on the environmental certification of the projects that fall within the scope of the system. The Environmental Regulatory Authority conducts inspections and imposes any relevant sanctions in the event of a failure to comply with those decisions and/or with any other environmental management instrument.

Subsequently, on 28 June 2012, Law No. 20.600 established the Environmental Courts. These courts are special judicial bodies subject to the Supreme Court whose role is to resolve environmental disputes that fall within their jurisdiction and to deal with other matters laid before them.