The government of Israel allocates budget to support the volunteering in agricultural activities in identified agricultural localities of priority, paid to organized groups of volunteers.
The programme conforms to the general criteria of Paragraph 1 of Annex 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture:
a) The programme is provided through a publicly funded government programme not involving transfers from consumers; and
b) The programme did not have the effect of providing price support to producers.
In addition, it meets the policy specific criteria of Paragraph 13 of Annex 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture:
a) Eligibility is limited to volunteers assisting producers in disadvantaged regions. Each such region is a clearly designated contiguous geographical area with a definable economic and administrative identity, considered as disadvantaged on the basis of neutral and objective criteria clearly spelt out in law or regulation and indicating that the region's difficulties arise out of more than temporary circumstances.
b) The amount of payment is not related to the type or volume of production (including livestock units) undertaken by the producer.
c) The amount of payment is not related to the prices applying to any production.
d) Payments are available only to volunteers in eligible regions, but generally available to volunteers at farms of all producers within such regions.
e) Payments are not related to production factors.
f) The payments are limited to the loss of income involved in undertaking agricultural production in the prescribed area.
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