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22 July 1999 (99-3066) Working Party on the
Accession of Georgia Original: English

DRAFT REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON
THE ACCESSION OF GEORGIA
TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

Draft Schedule - Georgia

Part II – Schedule of Specific Commitments on Services
List of Article II MFN Exemptions

Addendum

As indicated in paragraph 181 of the draft Report of the Working Party on the Accession of Georgia (WT/ACC/SPEC/GEO/12), the Schedule of Specific Commitments on Services resulting from the negotiations between Georgia and WTO Members is annexed to the Protocol of Accession of Georgia and is reproduced hereunder.
4) Entry and temporary stay
Unbound, except for measures concerning temporary entry and stay of nationals of another member who fall into the categories listed below:
Services Salespersons - persons not based in the territory of the Georgia and receiving no remuneration from a source located within the Georgia, who are engaged in activities related to representing a services supplier for the purpose of negotiating for sale of the services of that supplier: a) such sales are not directly made to the general public and b) the salesperson is not engaged in supplying the service.
Intra-corporate Transferees - managers, executives and specialists, as defined below, who are employees of firms that provide services within Georgia through a branch, subsidiary, or
affiliate established in Georgia and who have been in the prior employees of their firm outside the Georgia for a period of not less than one year, immediately preceding the date of their application for admission and who are one of the following:
Commitments include all sectors a) managers - persons within an organisation who primarily direct the organisation, or a department or sub-division of the organisation, supervise and control the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, have the authority to hire and fire or remand the decision on hiring, firing, or other personal actions (such as promotion or leave authorisation), and exercise discretionary authority over day-to-day operations.
1) and "Market Access Limitations on Spectrum Availability" (S/GBT/W/3)

B) Courier Services
(CPC 7512)

(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section None except for "joint stock" companies established or authorised to operate or supply services as of the date of accession, at least one third of the membership of joint stock company’s board of directors must be Georgian nationals resident in the country.
none
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section C) Telecommunication Services
a) Voice telephone services (CPC 7521)
b) Packet-switched data transmission services
(CPC 7523*)
c) Circuit-switched data transmission services
(CPC 7523*)
d) Telex services (CPC 7523*)
e) Telegraph services (CPC 7522)
f) Facsimile services (CPC 7521*+7529*)
g) Private leased circuit services
(CPC 7522*+7523*)
h) Electronic mail (CPC 7523*)
i) Voice mail (CPC 7523*)
j) On-line information and database retrieval
(CPC 7523*)
k) Electronic data interchange (EDI) (CPC 7523*)
l) Enhanced/value-added facsimile services, including store and forward, store and retrieve (CPC 7523*)
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section
Georgia undertakes the obligations contained in the reference paper attached hereto.
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
A) Sewage services
(CPC 9401)
(1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section
(1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section B) Refuse disposal services
(CPC 9402)
(1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section C) Sanitation and similar services
(CPC 9403)
(1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section D) Cleaning services of exhaust gases
(CPC 9404) (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section E) Noise abatement services
(CPC 9405) (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section F) Other nature and landscape protection services
(CPC 9406) (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound other than consulting and advisory services
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section G) Other environmental protection services
(CPC 9409) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None other than: Foreign persons are allowed to supply services only through the joint ventures.
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound

(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section - Marine, aviation and other transport insurance services
(CPC 81293)
(1) Unbound except direct insurance regarding international transport involving import into Georgia where None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) None

(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section d) Reinsurance and retrocession
(CPC 81299)
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section e) Services auxiliary to insurance such as consultancy,
7112,7113) (1) Unbound
(2) None
(3) - Railroad infrastructure is the state property and its exploitation is a monopoly
- Rail transport : None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound
(2) None
(3) – Railroad infrastructure is the state property and its exploitation is a monopoly

- Rail transport : None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section d) Maintenance and repair of
rail transport equipment
(CPC 8868**)
(1) Unbound*
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) Unbound*
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section F) Road Transport Services
d) Maintenance and repair of
road transport equipment
(CPC 6112+8867)
(1) Unbound*
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section
(1) Unbound*
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section e) Freight transportation Services
(CPC 7123)
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None other than : Foreign persons are allowed to supply services only through the joint ventures.

(a) under non-discriminatory terms, conditions (including technical standards and specifications) and rates and of a quality no less favourable than that provided for its own like services or for like services of non-affiliated service suppliers or for its subsidiaries or other affiliates;
in a timely fashion, on terms, conditions (including technical standards and specifications) and cost-oriented rates that are transparent, reasonable, having regard to economic feasibility, and sufficiently unbundled so that the supplier need not pay for network components or facilities that it does not require for the service to be provided; and
upon request,
5 Interconnection: dispute settlement

A service supplier requesting interconnection with a major supplier will have recourse, either:
(a) at any time or
(b) after a reasonable period of time which has been made publicly known
to an independent domestic body, which may be a regulatory body as referred to in paragraph 5 below, to resolve disputes regarding appropriate terms, conditions and rates for interconnection within a reasonable period of time, to the extent that these have not been established previously.

List of Article II (MFN) Exemptions

Sector or sub-sector Description of measure indicating its inconsistency with Article II Countries to which the measure applies Intended duration Conditions creating the need for the exemption Transport services

Fishing related services

Motion picture or video tape production services Bilateral road transport agreements on the basis of reciprocity, which allow the respective countries to carry out international transportation of passengers and cargo.
According to the agreement films made jointly by Georgia and France can be produced only with participation of citizens of Georgia, France and other European Union countries, or with participation of persons having the Georgian or French nationality All countries with which agreements are or will be in force

All countries

France and other European Union countries
Indefinite

Indefinite

Indefinite Improvement of relations in transport sector.