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ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/COL/23
28 November 2000
(00-5115)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The attached notification concerning new or modified domestic support measures exempt
from reduction ( Table DS:2 ) was received from the Permanent Mission of Colombia  on
9 November 2000.G/AG/N/COL/23
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Table DS:2
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Colombia
Notification under Article 18.3 of the Agreement:
New or modified domestic support measures
exempt from reduction
1. Full title of the measure:
Development programmes for indigenous communities and reservations, and depressed areas.
2. Domestic legislation reference:
Law 188 of 1995:  National Developm ent and Investment Plan 1995-1998.
3. Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria (i.e. those in paragraph 13 of
Annex 2):
This measure was introduced to help the indigenous communities located in forest areas,
savannah and tropical deserts through support programmes oriented towards the development
of hunting activities, horticulture and rural activities such as agriculture and livestock grazing,
as well as the establishment of indigenous reservations on vacant land and the demarcation
and upgrading of such reservations.
4. Cost of the measure:
4,030,000 dollars (General Budget of the Nation for 1997).
5. Date of entry into effect:
January 1997.
6. Period of application:
1997/1998.
7. Products to principally benefit (if any individual product):
See paragraph 3 above.
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