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Abstract
The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) marked the end of an era in which agricultural policies could be
elaborated independently of international rules. It defined a framework, which is again used in the Doha Round, with distinct
commitments on the 3 issues of export competition, market access and domestic support. This framework explicitly
acknowledges that domestic policies may have distorting effects on trade and, as such, may be submitted to disciplines in the
context of multilateral negotiations on trade. This paper more specifically deals with the matter of domestic support in the
Doha Round: the development of negotiations on this topic from the initiation of the round to the present day; the potential
impact for the European Union (EU) of the commitments that would be undertaken regarding domestic support; a critical
analysis of the discussions on this issue.