Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization, Parte668Aaditya Mattoo, Pierre Sauvé World Bank Publications, 2003 M01 1 - 236 páginas Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services. |
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Términos y frases comunes
Accountancy Disciplines accountancy sector accountancy services Annex Appellate Body Report apply approach Article VI.4 Article XIV Articles XVI Bank Basel burden competition policy context costs developing countries disci discriminatory domestic regulation domestic regulatory dormant Commerce Clause economic effect energy services ensure European Union example financial services foreign framework GATS Article GATT global health services horizontal hospitals ICAO implement institutions interconnection international standards issues least trade-restrictive licensing limited market access ment multilateral national treatment necessity test negotiations nondiscriminatory objectives obligations OECD parties plines principles procedures prudential qualification requirements Reference Paper regulatory disciplines regulatory reform relevant restrictions rules schedules scope service providers service sectors service suppliers services trade specific commitments SPS Agreement supply TBT Agreement telecom telecommunications tion tional tive Trade in Services trade liberalization transparency transport unbundling universal service Uruguay Round vices World Bank World Trade Organization WTO Appellate Body WTO members
Pasajes populares
Página 67 - Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade...
Página 69 - Such disciplines shall aim to ensure that such requirements are, inter alia: (a) based on objective and transparent criteria, such as competence and the ability to supply the service; (b) not more burdensome than necessary to ensure the quality of the service; (c) in the case of licensing procedures, not in themselves a restriction on the supply of the service.
Página 48 - Where the statute regulates evenhandedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits. If a legitimate local purpose is found, then the question becomes one of degree. And the extent of the burden that will be tolerated will of course depend on the nature of the local interest involved, and on whether it could...
Página 63 - The products of the territory of any contracting party imported into the territory of any other contracting party shall be accorded treatment no less favorable than that accorded to like products of national origin in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use.
Página 153 - Members shall ensure that technical regulations are not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to or with the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade.
Página 63 - In the sectors inscribed in its Schedule, and subject to any conditions and qualifications set out therein, each Member shall accord to services and service suppliers of any other Member, in respect of all measures affecting the supply of services, treatment no less favourable than that it accords to its own like services and service suppliers.
Página 74 - Member shall avoid arbitrary or unjustifiable distinctions in the levels it considers to be appropriate in different situations, if such distinctions result in discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade.
Página 80 - Members shall accept the sanitary or phytosanitary measures of other Members as equivalent, even if these measures differ from their own or from those used by other Members trading in the same product, if the exporting Member objectively demonstrates to the importing Member that its measures achieve the importing Member's appropriate level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection.
Página 174 - ... of an affected service supplier, for the prompt review of, and where justified, appropriate remedies for, administrative decisions affecting trade in services. Where such procedures are not independent of the agency entrusted with the administrative decision concerned, the Member shall ensure that the procedures in fact provide for an objective and impartial review.
Página 66 - For this purpose, technical regulations shall not be more trade-restrictive than necessary to fulfill a legitimate objective, taking account of the risks non-fulfillment would create.
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Management internationaler Dienstleistungen: Kontext - Konzepte - Erfahrungen Marco A. Gardini,H. Dieter Dahlhoff Vista previa limitada - 2004 |