World Trade
Organization GATS/SC/132
22 December 2000 (00-5654) Trade in Services

oman

Schedule of Specific Commitments

(This is authentic in English only)

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Modes of supply: (1) Cross-border supply (2) Consumption abroad (3) Commercial presence (4) Presence of natural persons Sector or sub-sector Limitations on market access Limitations on national treatment Additional commitments All sectors and sub-Sectors included in this schedule The conditions of ownership, management, operation, juridical form and
scope of activities as set out in a license or other form of approval establishing or authorizing the operation or supply of services by an existing foreign service supplier, will not be made more restrictive than they exist as of the date of Oman's accession to the WTO.
Persons who are employees of an enterprise outside Oman, not having commercial presence in Oman, which has concluded a services contract with an enterprise engaged in substantive business in Oman and who provide a service in Oman as professionals on behalf of enterprise outside Oman.
Managers: Persons within an organization who primarily direct the organization or a department or sub division of the organization, supervise and control the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, have the authority to hire or fire or recommend hiring, firing, or other personnel actions (such as promotion or leave authorization), and exercise discretionary authority over day-to-day operations.

(CPC 8621 & 8622) 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 c) Taxation Services.

(CPC 93201)
Computer and Related Services
(CPC 841 - 845 & 849)
a) Consultancy services related to the installation of computer hardware
b) Software implementation services
c) Data processing services
d) Data base services
e) Other
1) None
2) None
3) None; starting no later than 1 January 2003, commercial presence of wholly foreign-owned subsidiaries will be permitted.
--"Market Access Limitations on Spectrum Availability" (S/GBT/W/3)
a) Voice Telephone Services Starting no later than 1 January 2004; none
None
Until 31 December 2003, GTO will have exclusive right to provide services.
Payphone & Calling Card Services 1) Starting no later than 1 January 2001, for payphones services, none; starting no later than 1 January 2002, for calling card operations, none.
1) None

2) None
3) None

4) Unbound, except as in the horizontal section Audiovisual Services
Motion picture and videotape distribution services (CPC 9611)
1) None
2) None
3) Foreign equity limited to 49%
4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section.
Insurance and Insurance- Related Services Direct insurance (including co-insurance):
Life (CPC 8121)
Non-life (CPC 8129)
Reinsurance & retrocession; (CPC 81299) 1) None
2) None
3) None; starting no later than 1 January 2003, commercial presence in the form of wholly foreign-owned subsidiaries and branches permitted.
(CPC 81199)
f) Trading for own account or for account of customers, whether on an exchange, in an over-the-counter market or otherwise, the following:- The aggregate holding by (a) an individual and his relating parties (b) an incorporated body and its related parties (c) a Joint-Stock Company or a Holding Company & its related parties, in a locally incorporated bank (other than wholly foreign-owned subsidiaries) shall not exceed 35% of the voting shares of the bank.

(CPC 81339 or 81319)
Advisory, intermediation and other auxiliary financial services on all the activities listed in sub-paragraphs (v) through (xv), including credit reference and analysis, investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on acquisitions and on corporate restructuring and strategy.
The following services at the port are made available to international maritime transport suppliers on non-discriminatory terms and conditions:
1) Pilotage
2) Towing and tug assistance
3) Provisioning, fueling and watering
4) Garbage collecting and ballast waste disposal
5) Port Captain's services
6) Navigation aids
7) Shore-based operational services essential to ship operations including communications, water and electrical supplies.
Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network or service that

a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers; and

b) cannot feasible be economically or technically substituted in order to provide a service.
Such interconnection is provided:

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;

b) 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

c) 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.
Public availability of licensing criteria

Where a license is required, the following will be made publicly available:

a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a decision concerning an applicable for a license and

b) the terms and conditions of individual licenses.
Allocation and use of scarce resources

Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, number and rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory manner.
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World Trade
Organization RESTRICTED WT/ACC/SPEC/BTN/2/Rev.1
29 August 2006 (06-4070) Working Party on the
Accession of Bhutan Original: English


ACCESSION OF BHUTAN

Revised Offer on Specific Commitments in Services

Revision


The following submission, dated 28 July 2006, is being circulated at the request of the Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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The General Council Decision of 10 December 2002 underlines that WTO Members shall exercise restraint in seeking concessions and commitments on trade in services from acceding Least-developed Countries (LDCs) taking into consideration the levels of concessions and commitments undertaken by existing WTO LDC Members. Acceding LDCs on their part shall offer access through concessions and commitments on trade in services commensurate with their individual development, financial and trade needs, in line with Article IV and XIX of the GATS. Special reference is also made on the statement a

World Trade
Organization RESTRICTED WT/ACC/SPEC/SAU/5
20 September 2005 (05-4141) Working Party on the Accession
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Original: English



accession of the kingdom of saudi arabia

Draft Schedule of Specific Commitments in Services

The following submission, dated 12 September 2005, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Modes of supply: (1) Crossborder supply; (2) Consumption abroad; (3) Commercial presence; (4) Presence of natural persons. Sector or Sub-sector Limitation on market access Limitations on national treatment Additional commitments I. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS All Sectors and Sub-Sectors of Services included in this Offer (3) (i) Commercial presence for all services listed in this Schedule, other than business services (as listed below) subject to incorporation under the Companies Act either as joint-stock companies or as limited liability companies.

World Trade
Organization RESTRICTED WT/ACC/SPEC/KHM/2/Rev.2
3 March 2003 (03-1216) Working Party on the
Accession of Cambodia Original: English


ACCESSION OF CAMBODIA

Offer on Specific Commitments in Services

Revision


The Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia has submitted the attached revised Offer of Specific Commitments in Services and List of Article II (MFN) exemptions, with a request that it be circulated to members of the Working Party.

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Modes of supply: 1) Cross-Border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons Sector or sub-sector Limitations on market access Limitations on national treatment Additional commitments A. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS APPLICABLE TO SECTORS LISTED IN THE SECTORAL PART OF THE SCHEDULE Subsidies (3), (4) Unbound for subsidies and for research and development. Land (3) Non-Cambodian natural and juridical persons may lease but not own land.

World Trade
Organization GATS/SC/134
21 December 2001 (01-6451) Trade in Services

THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Schedule of Specific Commitments

(This is authentic in English only)

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THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - SCHEDULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS

Modes of supply: (1) Cross-border; (2) Consumption abroad; (3) Commercial presence; (4) Presence of natural persons.
(4) Movement of natural persons

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 Republic of Moldova and receiving no remuneration from a source located within Republic of Moldova, 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.
Persons responsible for the setting up of a commercial presence: persons who are employees of an enterprise not having presence in Republic of Moldova and who have been beforehand employees of that enterprise outside Republic of Moldova for a time period not less than one year immediately preceding their application for admission, and who are entering Republic of Moldova for the purpose of setting up a commercial presence of that enterprise in Republic of Moldova.
- Intra-corporate transferees – managers, executives and specialists, as defined below, who are employees of firms that provide services within Moldova through a branch, subsidiary, or affiliate established in Moldova and who have been prior employees of their firm outside Moldova for a period of not less than one year, immediately preceding the date of their application for admission:
managers – persons within an organization who primarily direct the organization, or a department or sub-division of the organization, 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 action (such as promotion or leave authorization), and exercise discretionary authority over day-to-day operations.
(4) None - Consultancy on home and third country and international law; (Part of CPC 861) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section 1) None
2) None
3) None
4) None (b) Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services (CPC 862); (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) None (c) Taxation services
(CPC 863);
(d) Architectural services; (CPC 8671)
(e) Engineering services; (CPC 8672) (f) Integrated engineering services (CPC 8673)
(g) Urban planning and landscape architectural services (CPC 8674) (h) Private medical and dental services (CPC 9312)
(CPC 9312 excluding services provided by the public sector) (1) None
(2) Public medical insurance programmes do not cover the cost of medicare supplied abroad.
Research and Development Services
(a) Research and development services on natural sciences (CPC 851);
(b) Research and development services on social sciences and humanities (CPC 852);
(c) Interdisciplinary research and development services (CPC 853).
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) None (c) Management consulting service (CPC 865);
(d) Services related to management consulting (CPC 866);
(e) Technical testing and analysis services
(CPC 8676);
(f) Services incidental to agriculture, hunting and forestry (CPC 881); (g) Services incidental to fishing (CPC 882);
(h) Services incidental to mining (CPC 883+5115);
(i) Services incidental to manufacturing
(CPC 884+885); (except for 88442);
(j) Services incidental to energy distribution (CPC 887); (k) Placement and supply services of personnel
(CPC 872); (1) None
(2) None
(3) Services can only be supplied through legal persons incorporated in Moldova
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section.
(1) None

(2) None
(3) None

(4) None (j) Facsimile services;
(CPC 7521*+7529*);
(k) Private leased circuit services;
(CPC 7522*+7523*)
(l) Electronic mail
(CPC 7523*); (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound,
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) None BANKING SECTOR and other financial services (excluding insurance)
Foreign banks can perform financial activity on the territory of the Republic of Moldova only through a branch office or subsidiary for which a license has been issued by the National Bank of Moldova.
(1) None

(2) None

(3) None

(4) None (c) Financial leasing; (8112);
(d) All payment and money transmission services (CPC 81339*);
(e) Guarantees and commitments
(CPC 81199*); (f) Trading for own account or for account of customers, whether on an exchange, in an over-the-counter market or otherwise, the following:
- Money market instruments (cheques, bills, certificates of deposits, etc.
(1) None

(2) None
(3) None, except as indicated in the horizontal section "Banking and other financial services"
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section
(3) None

(4) None (l) Participation in issues of all kinds of securities, including underwriting and placement as agent (whether publicly or privately) and provision of service related to such issues (8132).
(1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) None (c) Air transport services defined in the air transport annex:
a) and b) Passenger and freight transportation (CPC 731, 732),
c) Rental of vessels with crew (CPC 734), d) Maintenance and repair of aircraft
(CPC 8868**),
e) Selling and marketing of air transport services; (CPC 746*),
f) Computer reservation systems; (CPC 746*); (d) Space transport
(CPC 733); (e) Rail transport services (CPC 7111, 7112, 7113, 8868**, 743); (f) Road transport services
a) Passenger transportation
(CPC 7121+7122),
b) Freight transportation (CPC 7123, for 7123 except cabotage services), (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section.
(a) under non-discriminatory terms, conditions (including technical standards and specifications) and rates and of a quality no less favorable than that provided for its own like services or for like services of non-affiliated service suppliers or for its subsidiaries or other affiliates;

(b) 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,
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,
Public availability of licensing criteria

Where a license is required, the following will be made publicly available:

(a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a decision concerning an application for a license and
(b) the terms and conditions of individual licenses.
Allocation and use of scarce resources

Any procedures for all allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers and rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory manner.
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