WTO--trade in services / edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll, Clemens Feinäugle.

• Superior document: Max Planck commentaries on world trade law, v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolfrum, Rüdiger.; Stoll, Peter-Tobias.; Feinäugle, Clemens.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck commentaries on world trade law ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (816 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

With the establishment of the WTO, trade in services became part of the world trade order. Volume 6 is dedicated to these rather recent developments. It covers the core agreement, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with annexes, as well as the additional instruments , which have been adopted later on to govern the liberalization in specific sectors. Those are the Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services, the Second Protocol on Financial Services, the Third Protocol on the Movement of Natural Persons, the Fourth Protocol on Basic Telecommunications and the Fifth Protocol, which contains further rules for financial services. This volume will be a valuable reference tool for the WTO community as a whole, as well as for professionals and researchers, who deal with one of the sectors concerned, e.g. financial services and telecommunications. Furthermore, it is highly relevant in view of those sectors, which are the subject of ongoing liberalization efforts or earmarked for future negotiations, namely accounting, legal services, transport, tourism, environmental services, legal and educational services.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- General Agreement on Trade in Services (Gats) / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part I. Scope and Definition / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part II. General Obligations and Disciplines / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part III. Specific Commitments / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part IV. Progressive Liberalization / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part V. Institutional Provisions / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Part VI. Final Provisions / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Article II Exemptions / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Movement of Natural Persons Supplying Services under the Agreement / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Third Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Air Transport Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Financial Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Second Annex on Financial Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Second Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Interim Agreement on Financial Services) / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Fifth Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Financial Services Agreement) / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Negotiations on Maritime Transport Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Telecommunications / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Annex on Negotiations on Basic Telecommunications / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Fourth Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Telecommunications Services: Reference Paper / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle -- Index / Rüdiger Wolfrum , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle.