GATT/AIR/2699 l7 OCTOBER 1988
SUBJECT: URUGUAY ROUND: GROUP OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SERVICES
1. THE GROUP OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SERVICES WILL HOLD ITS NEXT MEETING ON 31 OCTOBER-3 NOVEMBER 1988, STARTING ON MONDAY, 31 OCTOBER AT 3 P.M., AT THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD.
2. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE ON THE AGENDA.
2.1 DISCUSSION ON SUBMISSIONS BEFORE THE GROUP INCLUDING THOSE CIRCULATED SINCE THE LAST MEETING OF THE GROUP.
2.2 ELEMENTS
- DEFINITIONAL AND STATISTICAL ISSUES
- BROAD CONCEPTS ON WHICH PRINCIPLES AND RULES FOR TRADE IN SERVICES, INCLUDING POSSIBLE DISCIPLINES FOR INDIVIDUAL SECTORS, MIGHT BE BASED
- COVERAGE OF THE MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORK FOR TRADE IN SERVICES
- EXISTING INTERNATIONAL DISCIPLINES AND ARRANGEMENTS
- MEASURES AND PRACTICES CONTRIBUTING TO OR LIMITING THE EXPANSION OF TRADE IN SERVICES; INCLUDING SPECIFICALLY ANY BARRIERS PERCEIVED BY INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS, TO WHICH THE CONDITIONS OF TRANSPARENCY AND PROGRESSIVE LIBERALIZATION MIGHT BE APPLICABLE.
FOLLOWING THE GENERAL DISCUSSION OF PROPOSALS WHICH THE GROUP IS INVITED TO ADDRESS AT THIS MEETING, THE GROUP WILL DISCUSS SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THESE PROPOSALS WITH REFERENCE TO, OR IN THE CONTEXT OF, THE ELEMENTS OF THE WORK PROGRAMME TO WHICH THEY RELATE.
2.3 OTHER BUSINESS
THERE WILL BE A DISCUSSION OF THE REPORT THAT THE CHAIRMAN MAY SUBMIT TO THE TNC IN MONTREAL ON BEHALF OF THE GNS.
3. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DISCUSSION ON ELEMENTS ARE MTN.GNS/W/1-47. THE NOTE ON THE MEETINGS FROM FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1987 ARE IN MTN.GNS/7-12. THE NOTES ON THE MEETINGS FROM JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1988 ARE CONTAINED IN MTN.GNS/13 AND CORR.1, 14, 15, 16, AND 17.
4. PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.
A. DUNKEL
88-1572