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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-world-trade-organisation-agreement-on-agriculture-domestic-support-regulations-2020/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Limits on support",
  "text": "(1) The total amount of amber box domestic support that may be provided in the United Kingdom each reporting year is the sum of—\n(a) the amount set out in Section 1 of Part IV of Schedule XIX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, part of Annex 1A to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation signed at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994, and\n(b) the amount of any domestic support which is not required to be included in the calculation of the United Kingdom’s current total Aggregate Measurement of Support under Article 6(4) of the Agreement on Agriculture.\n(2) The total amount of amber box domestic support, not including the reserve, that may be provided in any one country in the United Kingdom may not exceed—\n(a) in England, 49.27% of the relevant amount;\n(b) in Northern Ireland, 7.49% of the relevant amount;\n(c) in Scotland, 12.67% of the relevant amount;\n(d) in Wales, 6.83% of the relevant amount.\n(3) The reserve may be used—\n(a) to account for spending on amber box domestic support in a crown dependency, or any other territory whose spending on domestic support is taken into account in determining the Aggregate Measurement of Support provided in the United Kingdom;\n(b) to provide amber box domestic support which applies to more than one country in the United Kingdom; or\n(c) for any other purpose the Secretary of State, after consultation with the devolved authorities, considers appropriate.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “the relevant amount” is the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(a);\n(b) “the reserve” is an amount equal to the sum of the amounts referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (b), less the sum of the amounts provided under paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Available on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-goods-and-services-schedules-at-the-wto, and in hard copy from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Builing, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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