RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SCM/Q2/CHE/2/Rev.1*
9October 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-4128)
Original: English Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
SUBSIDIES
Questions from JAPAN Regarding theNew
andFullNotification ofSWITZERLAND1
Revision
Thefollowing communication, dated 2October 1996, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission ofJapan.
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1. III. Contribution totheSwiss Office forDevelopment ofTrade (OSEC)
CouldSwitzerlandexplaintheunitoftheamountofsubsidyinparagraph1(iii)ofthenotification?
2. IV. Agricultural subsidies
Thenotification states thattheinformation relating toagricultural subsidies ofSwitzerland will
benotified totheCommittee onAgriculture.
Wasthisstatement made duetothefactthatnoconclusion hasbeenreached yetattheWorking
Group onNotification Obligations andProcedures onwhether suchsubsidies shallbenotified tothe
SCM Committee?
3. Others
Could Switzerland explain thecontents andthereason whytheywere notnotified?
(1) Technological Cooperation inEurope (EUREKA)
When didthisprogramme terminate?
Inwhich fieldwasthiscooperation made?
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(2) Federal grant totheSwiss Electronics andMicro-Engineering Centre
(3) CIMandmicro-electronic training andresearch centres
(4) Federal lawonguarantees covering export risk