Blue Box Sample Clauses

Blue Box. All those Amber Box subsidies which tend to limit the production comes under Blue Box. This can be increased without limit as long as subsidies are linked to production-limiting programs.

Blue Box. This is the “amber box with conditions” — conditions designed to reduce distortion. Any support that would normally be in the amber box, is placed in the blue box if the support also requires farmers to limit production (details set out in Paragraph 5 of Article 6 of the AoA) [4]. At present there are no limits on spending on blue box subsidies. In the current negotiations, some countries want to keep the blue box as it is because they see it as a crucial means of moving away from distorting amber box subsidies without causing too much hardship. Others wanted to set limits or reduction commitments, some advocating moving these supports into the amber box [4]. The green box is defined in Annex 2 of the AoA. To qualify, green box subsidies must not distort trade, or at most cause minimal distortion (paragraph 1). They have to be government-funded (not by charging consumers higher prices) and must not involve price support [4]. They tend to be programmes that are not targeted at particular products, and include direct income supports for farmers that are not related to (are “decoupled” from) current production levels or prices. They also include environmental protection and regional development programmes. “Green box” subsidies are therefore allowed without limits, provided they comply with the policy- specific criteria set out in Annex 2 [4]. In the Doha negotiations, some countries argued that some of the subsidies involved large amounts payments or that the nature of these subsidies or that the trade distortion they caused were more than minimal, e.g., direct payments to producers (paragraph 5), including decoupled income support (paragraph 6), and government financial support for income insurance and income safety-net programmes (paragraph 7), and other paragraphs. Some other countries took the opposite view — that the criteria were adequate, and might even need to be made more flexible to take better account of non-trade concerns such as environmental protection and animal welfare [4].

Blue Box. The Recycling Blue Box is the property of U.W.O. and should be maintained while living in the Glenmore Complex and left in the apartment when you move out. Blue Boxes can be emptied in the recycling sheds.