WORLD TRADE G/AG/N/EU/2 16 February 2012 ORGANIZATION (12-0913) Committee on Agriculture Original: English NOTIFICATION The following submission, dated 16 November 2011, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of the European Union. The notification concerns actions taken within the framework of the Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed and Net Food-Importing Developing Countries (Table NF:1) during the calendar year 2007. G/AG/N/EU/2 Page 2 NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 16:2 OF THE AGREEMENT: MONITORING OF THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE DECISION ON MEASURES CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE REFORM PROGRAMME ON LEAST-DEVELOPED AND NET FOOD-IMPORTING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: European Union REPORTING PERIOD: calendar year 2007 (1) Quantity of food aid provided to least-developed and net food-importing developing countries: 1. The contribution by the European Union (EU) for food aid and support operations in 2007 was €308 million. It was spent on products mobilized under the Food Aid Convention (FAC) and on contract aid provided by European Commission Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO). The contract aid was spent on products, support operations and transport, distribution, flanking measures and measures to monitor implementation. A substantial contribution to food aid and supporting operations was also delivered by Directorate General for Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (DG DEV) as part of Official Development Assistance delivered by the European Commission. 2. As a result of reorganization of instruments under the EU's Financial Perspectives exercise for 2007-2013, the responsibility for the management of humanitarian food aid budget line was transferred from the European Commission Directorate General EuropeAid Cooperation Office (DG AIDCO) to DG ECHO with effect from January 2007. 3. For a list of examples of projects on food aid provided by the European Union to LDCs and NFIDCs in year 2007, see Annex 1. (2) Indication of the proportion in fully grant form or appropriate concessional terms: 4. All food aid is provided on fully grant terms. 5. In 2007, 91.77 per cent of food aid value mobilized under the FAC was bought locally and triangularly.1 (3) Technical and financial assistance under paragraph 3 (iii) of the Decision: 6. In total, €8.50 billion of Official Development Assistance was paid by the European Commission Directorate General for Development (DG DEV)2 in 2007. This represents an increase of five per cent when compared to the €8.13 billion in 2006. 7. For DG DEV, 2007 was the first year of the New Financial Perspectives instrument for 2007- 2013. The budget for 2007-2013 stands at €12 billion, a 32 per cent increase in real terms from the previous budgetary period. €2 billion of the budget is available through the Instrument for Stability, which is aimed at enhancing the EU's crisis response capacity. A further €700 million is available over that period for a Governance Facility. 1 Triangular aid-aid bought from a third country either inside or outside the region of the recipient country. 2 For a detailed account of DG DEV activities in 2007 please see the following report: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/multimedia/publications/publications/annual-reports/2008_en.htm. G/AG/N/EU/2 Page 3 8. Due to the integration of food aid and aid to uprooted people within the European Commission's DG ECHO, the humanitarian aid budget for 2007 rose to €722 million with a predicted annual indicative increase of three per cent (two per cent inflation and one per cent net increase). In contrast with previous years, 2007 did not see any major new crisis in the field of humanitarian aid, whether it be natural disasters or complex emergencies. Assistance to the ACP countries 9. For the ACP countries the European Commission's DG DEV has allocated a budget of €23 billion for the period 2007-2013 under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), nearly doubling the amount under the 9th EDF. Assistance to other countries 10. Cooperation with Asia, Latin America and South Africa is financed through the Instrument for Development Cooperation (DCI), with a total funding of €16.90 billion for the 2007-2013 period. The assistance supports poverty eradication and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). 11. There are a number of specific thematic budget lines under the DCI, including the Food Security Thematic Programme. Its objective is "to improve food security in favour of the poorest and the most vulnerable and contribute to achieving the first MDG, through a set of actions which ensure overall coherence, complementary and continuity of Community interventions, including in the area of transition from relief to development". 12. The allocation under the 2007 Annual Action Programme for food security under the DCI was €201.5 million. Food security was addressed in exceptional situations of transition, namely in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville*3, Sudan, Somalia, North Korea*, Myanmar and Palestine*. Special allocations were provided to the following chronically food-insecure countries: Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan*, Tajikistan*, Yemen, Georgia* and Armenia*. (4) Other relevant information with respect to actions taken within the framework of the Decision: 13. None. 3 No LDC country. G/AG/N/EU/2 Page 4 Annex 1 Examples of projects on food aid provided by the European Union to LDCs and NFIDCs in year 2007 Country Projects Payments (Mio Euro) Afghanistan Support to revival of agriculture for returnees and most vulnerable households in Kunar and Laghman Provinces, Eastern Afghanistan 0.53 Flood Rehabilitation and Assistance Project, Panjshir (FRAPP) 0.32 Increased food security for the most vulnerable families in Pasaband and Taywarah districts, Ghor Province, Western Afghanistan 0.55 Winterisation Food Security Programme in Day Kundi Province 0.50 Restore the livelihoods of deportees and returnees and strengthen the livelihoods of the host communities through distribution of quality wheat seed and fertilizer for the 2007 autumn and 2008 spring campaigns in target areas of Afghanistan 0.20 Food Aid and Food Security Programme to vulnerable populations, Wardak Province, Afghanistan 0.40 PRRO 10427.0 - Post-conflict Relief and Rehabilitation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan/Emergency Food Aid Assistance to battle- affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the South 2.00 Food Aid and Nutrition Support Programme to vulnerable populations, Badakhshan Province 0.34 Emergency food security livelihood assistance for flash flood and or drought-affected households in Daikundi 0.47 Livelihood/Food Security Recovery Programme, Jawzjan Province 0.25 Bangladesh Emergency relief for flood affected families in Bangladesh during 2007 0.50 Inclusive Emergency Response and Rehabilitation assistance to the most vulnerable populations - Specific focus on needs of people with disabilities, affected by the floods of July and August 2007 in 5 unions of Sirajganj district 0.15 Humanitarian assistance for monsoon flood affected women and children in Bangladesh-2007 0.47 Emergency response for the flood affected people in Gaibandha and Lalmonirhat Districts, 2007 0.38 Emergency assistance for flood affectees 2007 0.50 Emergency and Rehabilitation Programme for flood affected population 0.50 Post Flood Livehoods Early Recovery and Rehabilitation Programme for poor and marginalised people in Bangladesh 1.05 Bangladesh flood early recovery programme 2008-2009 0.36 Bangladesh post-floods early recovery programme 0.52 Sidr emergency response for the coastal districts of Bangladesh 2007 0.32 Emergency Relief for Sidr tropical cyclone-affected families in Bangladesh during 2007 0.58 Bangladesh Super-Cyclone Sidr Emergency Relief Programme 2007 0.35 Humanitarian Relief Assistance for vulnerable people affected by cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh 0.80 Emergency response for cyclone Sidr 2007 0.30 G/AG/N/EU/2 Page 5 Country Projects Payments (Mio Euro) Food assistance to cyclone affected populations in Southern Bangladesh 0.50 Saving, protecting and restoring lives and livelihoods of the poor cyclone Sidr survivors 0.50 Christian Aid Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr Relief Project 2007-2008 0.30 Emergency Response to Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh: food security, shelter and latrines 0.30 Food assistance to cyclone-affected populations in Southern Bangladesh 1.43 Post-flood rehabilitation for the affected families in Bangladesh 0.89 Bangladesh flood early recovery programme 2008-2009 0.36 Livelihood recovery support for the flood affected people in Sunamganj and Bogra Districts, Bangladesh, 2008-2009 0.45 Burkina Faso Reversing growing under nutrition in food insecure regions 1.00 Emergency Nutrition Programme for Children, Centre Nord Region 0.72 Burundi Support for the stabilization and recovery of Burundi : protecting and creating livelihoods while improving the nutritional status of the most vulnerable: provision of maize and beans for WFP1 activities in Burundi 4.00 Emergency agricultural assistance to households affected by climatic factors and / or severe cassava mosaic and households made vulnerable by the conflict and support to early warning and surveillance of food safety. 0.92 Cash for Work II - Closing Park Rububu and opening up rural 0.41 Seed Fairs and Cash for Work for Livelihoods Programme 1.76 Integrated control programme against malnutrition