Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/355/REV.1 |
S-Table-IV.1 |
Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
2017 |
Sectors |
Grants and direct payments |
Agriculture |
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Table 4.1 Direct payments, 2012-15
(SwF 1,000)
2012 2013 2014 2015
Ecological direct payments (AP 2011) 641 667 n.a. n.a.
Payments for production systems n.a. n.a. 439.5 450.1
Payment for organic agriculture 40.4 42.5
Animal welfare payments (outdoor) 186.8 188.2
Animal welfare payments (housing systems) 75.6 78.1
Biodiversity payments n.a. n.a. 364.1 386.6
Quality payment 284.0 296.1
Payment for bio-diversity networks 80.1 90.5
Resource efficiency payments n.a. n.a. 6.3 17.3
Payment for emission-reducing application techniques of manure 2.1
6.2
Payment for reduced tillage 3.8 10.4
Payment for precision application of pesticides 0.3 0.7
Payments for water protection and sustainable use of natural resources 31.0 25.5
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Note: Payments for water protection and sustainable use of natural resources are not direct payments but another type of financial support. Since they are financed by the federal direct payments budget (and co-financed by the cantons), they are included in this table.
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Bio
Emissions
Natural resources
Sustainable
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/355/REV.1 |
S-Table-IV.2 |
Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
2017 |
Sectors |
Grants and direct payments |
Agriculture |
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Table 4.2 Liechtenstein's direct payments, 2013-15
(SwF million)
2013 2014 2015
Environmental and animal welfare payments 5.2 5.0 5.1
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/355/REV.1 |
S-IV§43 |
Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
2017 |
Sectors |
Grants and direct payments |
Agriculture |
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The Swiss Confederation assists Swiss farmers' organizations and inter-professional organizations to promote their agricultural products on the internal market and abroad. In 2015, approximately SwF 60 million were granted to around thirty promotion and marketing organizations. A large part of the financial support is dedicated to the promotion of cheese, meat, milk, fruit and potatoes. The marketing campaigns for organic products and for PDO/PGI products are also co-financed. Each year, the organizations have to apply for financial support of their promotional activities for the following year. Their activities can be co-financed by the Confederation up to a maximum of 50% of the costs, but only for market research and the following communication instruments: advertising (print, TV, radio, online, etc.), new media (homepage, social media, etc.), sales promotion (tastings, advertising material, training, etc.), public relations, events, fairs, sponsoring, and direct-marketing. Price-related activities (for example, a price reduction on products) and distribution costs are not eligible for financial support.
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Government TPR |
WT/TPR/G/362 |
G-IV§15 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Sectors |
General environmental reference |
Agriculture |
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In view of the sector’s importance, the member States adopted the Union Agricultural Policy (PAU) on 10 December 2001 under Additional Act No. 03/2001. It aims to resolve the major challenges facing agriculture in the WAEMU area, namely, how to increase agricultural output sustainably through intensification, and the joint management of natural resources that are now regional public goods and are threatened by intensifying competition.
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Natural resources
Sustainable
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§93 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Measures |
Technical regulation or specifications |
Agriculture |
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In 2009, the Commission adopted two texts implementing the Regulation, relating to the sanitary safety of animals, then in 2013 two other implementing texts on coordination and cooperation mechanisms (section 3.3.2.6 below) as part of the implementation of the Union Agricultural Policy (PAU) and with the aim of organizing a strategy at regional level consistent with international requirements, notably with the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). Pursuant to the 2007 Regulation, the Commission and member States also undertake to prepare community and national texts based on the standards of the Codex Alimentarius, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and those established under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§105 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Measures |
Other measures |
Agriculture |
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In addition, this community framework calls on member States to ratify the pertinent major international conventions, to base their national regulations on the latters' provisions, and to harmonize approval terms and criteria, including those on labelling, packaging and storage of approved pesticides. Five lists have to be drawn up for this purpose: approved pesticides or those with a provisional sales authorization; banned pesticides; pesticides whose toxicity is monitored; those "strictly regulated"; and those deemed to be approved in each member State. Member States have also ratified the Rotterdam, Stockholm, Basel and Bamako Conventions (section 3.3.3). In implementing these Conventions, however, member States are mainly constrained by the lack of human, material and financial resources.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§108 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Measures |
Import licences, Other environmental requirements |
Agriculture |
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The CREVU (WAEMU's Regional Catalogue of Plant Species and Plant Varieties) catalogue provides for the possibility of approving genetically modified varieties (GMOs). Nevertheless, the regulations on agricultural products derived from biotechnology, particularly use of GMOs in human and animal food, have not been harmonized, although community regulations are planned. In some countries, the sale and growing of genetically modified products, as well as the import of GMO derived products, requires authorization from the competent authorities (see Annexes by country). National seed committees have been set up, in Senegal in particular in 1997, in Burkina Faso in 2012, and in Côte d'Ivoire in 2013.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§119 |
The West African Economic and Monetary Union |
2017 |
Measures |
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In connection with implementation of the WAEMU regional biosafety programme, regulations on preventing biotechnological risks were endorsed in February 2015, jointly with ECOWAS and the CILSS. The regulations apply to any use, trade in, transit and handling of modified live organisms and/or their by products which might have a negative impact on the environment, in particular, on the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity, or on human or animal health, with the exception of pharmaceuticals.
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Environment
Sustainable
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-III§76 |
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2017 |
Measures |
Ban/Prohibition |
Agriculture |
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Benin had a moratorium on the import and cultivation of GMOs up to 2013. Since that date, no appropriate legal framework has been introduced.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/362 |
S-IV§10 |
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2017 |
Sectors |
General environmental reference |
Agriculture |
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The basic documents defining the main outlines of agricultural sector policy clarified the strategic choices that should guide agricultural and rural development. In particular, the aim is promote a sustainable, modern and competitive agriculture that prioritizes small farms, with a low level of State intervention. The main measures envisaged involve increasing agricultural production and diversifying the agricultural subsectors by creating an institutional framework that facilitates access to credit and conditions that favour public private partnership.
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