compliance with notification obligations
NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT[1]
Revision
The
present document has been prepared to assist with the consideration of the agenda
item "overdue notifications" during the 111th meeting of
the Committee on Agriculture to be held on 24‑25 March 2025. It reflects
Members' compliance with their regular notification obligations[2]
as of 4 March 2025.
In
preparing this note, the Secretariat has largely relied on the Agriculture
Information Management System (AG-IMS).[3]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. 3
1.1
Annual Notification Obligations. 5
1.1.1
Table MA:1 notifications, comprehensive one-off (Implementation of tariff and
other
quota commitments; Article 18.2 – 30 days) 5
1.1.2
Table MA:2 notifications (Imports under tariff and other quotas; Article 18.2
– 60 days) 5
1.1.3
Table MA:5 notifications (Special Safeguard; Articles 5.7 and 18.2 – 30
days) 6
1.1.4
Table DS:1 notifications (Domestic support; Article 18.2 – 90 days or 120 days
if the
initial notification is provisional) 7
1.1.5
Table ES:1 notifications (Export subsidies; Article 18.2 – 60 days or 120 days
if the
initial notification is provisional) 7
1.1.6
Table ES:2 notifications (Total exports; Articles 10 and 18.2 – 120 days) 8
1.2
Other Regular Notification Obligations Applicable only upon Maintenance of
Specific
Measures. 9
1.2.1
Table ES:3 notifications (Food aid volumes; Articles 10 and 18.2 – 120 days) 9
1.2.2
Table NF:1 notifications (Food and other aid in the context of the
Marrakesh Decision; Article 16.2 – 60 days) 9
1.3
Export Competition Questionnaire (ECQ) in Annex to Ministerial Decision on
Export Competition (export subsidies, export credit, export credit guarantees
or insurance
programs, international food aid and agricultural exporting state trading
enterprises) 9
1.4
Symbols and Abbreviations. 10
2 COMPLIANCE WITH ANNUAL NOTIFICATION
OBLIGATIONS. 11
Table 2.1.
Tariff and Other Quota Commitments (Tables MA:1 and MA:2) 11
Table 2.2.
Special Safeguard (Table MA:5) 12
Table 2.3.
Domestic Support (Table DS:1) 14
Table 2.4.
Export Subsidies: Budgetary Outlays and Quantity Reduction Commitments
(Table ES:1) 18
Table 2.5.
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports (Table ES:2) 23
3 OTHER REGULAR NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS
APPLICABLE ONLY UPON MAINTENANCE OF SPECIFIC MEASURES. 24
Table 2.5
Export Subsidies: Notification of the Total Volume of Food Aid (Table ES:3),
2010‑2024. 24
Table 2.6
Notification under Article 16.2 of the Agreement on Agriculture
(Table NF:1),
2010‑2024. 25
4 Responses to the Export Competition
Questionnaire (ECQ) in annex
to Ministerial Decision on Export Competition
(WT/MIN(15)/45 ‑ WT/L/980). 26
Table 2.7. List of responding Members to the ECQ by
implementation year (2015-2024) 26
[1] This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility
and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights and
obligations under the WTO.
[2] _G/AG/2
and _G/AG/2/Add.1
refer. This document does not include the status of ad hoc notifications, i.e. those relating to: (i)
the triggering of the special safeguard provisions (Tables MA:3 and
MA:4); (ii) the introduction or modification of domestic support measures for
which exemption from reduction commitments is claimed (Table DS:2); and (iii)
export prohibitions and restrictions (Table ER:1).