{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-world-trade-organisation-agreement-on-agriculture-domestic-support-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348214987",
  "legislation_title": "The World Trade Organisation Agreement on Agriculture (Domestic Support) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-world-trade-organisation-agreement-on-agriculture-domestic-support-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations—\n“amber box domestic support” means domestic support which does not meet the criteria in—\n(a) Article 6(5) of the Agreement on Agriculture; or\n(b) Annex 2;\n“Aggregate Measurement of Support” has the meaning given in Article 1(a) of the Agreement on Agriculture;\n“Annex 2” means Annex 2 to the Agreement on Agriculture;\n“blue box domestic support” means domestic support which meets the criteria in Article 6(5) of the Agreement on Agriculture;\n“classification”, in relation to domestic support, means its classification as amber box domestic support, blue box domestic support or green box domestic support, and “to classify” domestic support means giving it such a classification;\n“green box domestic support” means domestic support which meets the criteria in Annex 2;\nthe “monetary value” of a scheme in a reporting year means the value in money of the total amount of support provided, or proposed to be provided, under that scheme during that year;\n“Notification Requirements” means the Notification Requirements and Formats adopted by the World Trade Organisation Committee on Agriculture at its meeting on 8th June 1995;\n“proposing authority” is the appropriate authority which is proposing new domestic support, or bringing forward amendments to existing domestic support;\n“reporting year” means the period of 12 months in relation to which the United Kingdom is required under the Agreement on Agriculture to submit to the World Trade Organisation a report on the total domestic support given in the United Kingdom;\n“UK co-ordinating body” means any body designated by the Secretary of State under regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“The Agreement on Agriculture” is defined in section 43(5) of the Agriculture Act 2020."
    },
    {
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Document G/AG/2, available on https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S009-DP.aspx?CatalogueIdList=37567,35927&CurrentCatalogueIdIndex=1&FullTextSearch=, and in hard copy from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Builing, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Appropriate authority” is defined in section 43(5) of the Agriculture Act 2020."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348214987/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:48:12.122235+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}