The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the … liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the … Prudential Carve-Out (PCO). Notwithstanding GATS obligations, it allows WTO Members to pursue prudential regulatory objectives …

Preferential Services Liberalization offers the first, comprehensive analysis of the conditions that the World Trade … of the relevant GATS rules, puts forward a practical method to analyze services PTAs, and applies the method to services …

Wesentliches Ziel des seit 1995 rechtsgültigen GATS-Vertrages (General Agreement on Trade in Services) ist die …