NOTIFICATION
The following submission, dated
21 August 2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Israel. The notification concerns new or
modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction (Table DS:2).
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Table
DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ISRAEL
Notification
under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction
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(1)
FULL TITLE OF MEASURE:
Governmental support for
volunteers in agriculture in priority areas.
(2)
DOMESTIC LEGISLATION REFERENCE:
Decree 668(נגב/3).
(3)
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MEASURE WITH REFERENCE TO CRITERIA:
The government of Israel
allocates budget to support the volunteering in agricultural activities in
identified agricultural localities of priority, paid to organized groups of
volunteers.
The
programme conforms to the general criteria of Paragraph 1 of Annex 2 of the
Agreement on Agriculture:
a)_
The programme is
provided through a publicly funded government programme not involving transfers
from consumers; and
b)_
The programme did
not have the effect of providing price support to producers.
In
addition, it meets the policy specific criteria of Paragraph 13 of Annex 2 of
the Agreement on Agriculture:
a)_
Eligibility is
limited to volunteers assisting producers in disadvantaged regions. Each such
region is a clearly designated contiguous geographical area with a definable
economic and administrative identity, considered as disadvantaged on the basis
of neutral and objective criteria clearly spelt out in law or regulation and
indicating that the region's difficulties arise out of more than temporary
circumstances.
b)_
The amount of
payment is not related to the type or volume of production (including livestock
units) undertaken by the producer.
c)_
The amount of
payment is not related to the prices applying to any production.
d)_
Payments are
available only to volunteers in eligible regions, but generally available to
volunteers at farms of all producers within such regions.
e)_
Payments are not
related to production factors.
f)_
The payments are
limited to the loss of income involved in undertaking agricultural production
in the prescribed area.
(4)
COST OF MEASURE:
ILS 20 million from 2022 on.
(5)
DATE OF ENTRY INTO EFFECT:
19/11/2021.
(6)
PERIOD OF APPLICATION:
2022–2024 (to be renewed).
(7)
PRODUCTS TO PRINCIPALLY BENEFIT (IF ANY INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT(S)):
All agricultural produce.
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