Services (GATS), some ten years after its entry into force. One striking observation is the smooth functioning of the Agreement … 'old' Members and countries negotiating their accession to the WTO.) Given the broad reach of of the Agreement in terms of … GATS, there should be no illusion about the scope for technical solutions to what constitutes a political and institutional …

Services (GATS), some ten years after its entry into force. One striking observation is the smooth functioning of the Agreement … 'old' Members and countries negotiating their accession to the WTO.) Given the broad reach of of the Agreement in terms of … GATS, there should be no illusion about the scope for technical solutions to what constitutes a political and institutional …

essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …; the need to make use of the WTO forum to enhance credibility and sustain domestic regulatory reform programmes; the …

inclusion of GATS and TRIPS in the WTO made the WTO a more important influence on international cultural policy than its GATT … efforts to create a rules-based convention to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions, which is designed to … either separate international cultural policy governance from the WTO or strengthen the bargaining position of cultural …

Market access is the most important liberalizing principle in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It … legal terms included in the provision and their interpretation by various WTO Panels as well as the Appellate Body. It also … GATS provisions …

security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …