Traduction de «Subvention verte » (Français → Anglais) :

The green ones were fine because they were non trade distorting—research, general farm income support, education, those kinds of things.

They are general government services to the agricultural sector.

Every single road, every single sewage and energy system in low-density areas when I was mayor, including in my own city, could get public subsidy because there are built-in green subsidies.

10. Is concerned about the financial and policy implications of environmentally harmful subsidies; considers that European funding should not have negative impacts on the environment, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity within and outside the EU; calls on the Commission thus to identify and for the EU subsequently to phase out all environmentally harmful subsidies as soon as possible, at the latest by 2020, in line with the commitment undertaken under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya and for the whole budget to be climate and biodiversity proofed; eliminating these harmful subsidies will free up funds whi ...[+++]ch will be used, for example, for green job creation; also requests that European payments be assessed, prior to implementation, to ensure that they do not produce negative effects or undermine European climate, energy, biodiversity and resource objectives;

The decoupling of payments will result in a large proportion of aid for agriculture being shifted from the “yellow box” (e.g. export refunds, which are regarded as a source of market distortion under the rules governing the WTO) to the “green box” (e.g. rural development aid, which causes limited or no market distortion with regard to the WTO).

When we talk consistently about trade distortions such as green subsidies and so on, as Senator Tkachuk said, we tend to get wound up in a maze of verbal descriptions.