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31 World Trade Organization
Annual Report 2014
Trade negotiations
TRADE
NEGOTIATIONS
Services negotiations
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Services
The Council for Trade in Services held no special sessions
in 2013 and no progress was made in overall negotiations
to lower barriers to trade in services. The Working Party
on Domestic Regulation exchanged information on how
licensing and qualification requirements and procedures,
and technical standards, are applied at national level.
Regarding government procurement, the Working Party
on GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) Rules
further explored the relationship and complementary
between the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
and the GATS.
Domestic regulation
The mandate of the Working Party on Domestic Regulation is
to develop disciplines to ensure that licensing and qualification
requirements and procedures, and technical standards, do not
constitute unnecessary barriers to trade in services. In 2013,
based on information provided by WTO members, the Working
Party completed its examination of over 90 questions on how
such requirements, procedures and technical standards are
implemented at the national level. The discussions covered,
among other things, issues concerning transparency, the
simplification of licensing and qualification regimes, the
treatment of applications, recognition arrangements, universal
service obligations and international standards as well as the
use and role of regulatory impact assessments.
During the course of these technical discussions and at the
request of members, the WTO Secretariat prepared two new
background notes. The first of these notes examined how
the term “measures of general application”, as found in WTO
agreements, had been interpreted in dispute settlement cases.
The second note discussed the role of technical standards in
services and provided an explanation of the services standardsmaking
process at national and international levels. Overall, the
technical discussions have helped to improve the understanding
of regulatory practices as well as to identify areas and issues
requiring further attention in the development of disciplines on
domestic regulation.
With the support of a Secretariat background note, delegations
launched a separate set of discussions on “Regulatory issues
in sectors and modes of supply”. The aim of these discussions
is to help WTO members better understand the regulatory
environment of services sectors and to identify, where relevant,
issues that may have a particular bearing on trade in services.
GATS rules
The Working Party on GATS Rules carries out the negotiating
mandates contained in Article X (emergency safeguard
measures), Article XIII (government procurement) and Article XV
(subsidies) of the GATS. As in previous years, WTO members
did not engage in text-based negotiations because there was no
common vision of what could constitute an acceptable outcome
in any of the three areas. 
On emergency safeguard measures, after a period of reflection,
delegations agreed in principle on holding a member-driven,
dedicated discussion on safeguard measures in regional and
bilateral trade agreements, to start in 2014.
On government procurement, based on WTO Secretariat
presentations, the discussions regained some momentum
addressing issues such as the significance of the revised
Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) for trade in
services, the economic and legal interface between the GATS
and the GPA as well as the services procurement coverage in
recent regional trade agreements.
Concerning subsidies in services, delegations’ appetite to
engage remained very limited. More empirical and conceptual
work would be needed to better understand the role of subsidies
in services trade and the trade-distortive effects they might
have continued.