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HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS Commitments include all sectors (4) Unbound except for measures concerning temporary entry and stay of nationals of another member who fall into the categories below:
Services salespersons persons not based in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic and receiving no remuneration from a source located within the Kyrgyz Republic, who are engaged in activities related to representing a services supplier for the purpose of negotiating for the sale of the services of that supplier where:
(a) such sales are not directly made to the general public; and
(b) the salesperson is not engaged in supplying the service. Intracorporate transferees managers, executives and specialists, as defined below, who are employees of firms that provide services within the Kyrgyz Republic through a branch, subsidiary, or affiliate established in the Kyrgyz Republic and who have been in the prior employ of their firm outside the Kyrgyz Republic for the period of not less than one year immediately preceding the date of their application for admission and who are one of the following: (a) Managers persons within an organization who primarily direct the organization, or a department or subdivision of the organization, supervise and control the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, have the authority to hire and fire or recommend hiring, firing, or other personnel actions (such as promotion or leave authorization), and exercise discretionary authority over daytoday operations. auditing and bookkeeping services (CPC 862)
(c) Taxation services (CPC 863) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (d) Architectural services (CPC 8671)
(e) Engineering services (CPC 8672)
(g) Urban planning and landscape architectural services (CPC 8674) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (h) Medical and dental services (CPC 9312)
(i) Veterinary services (CPC 932)
(j) Services provided by midwives, nurses, physiotherapists and paramedical personnel (CPC 93191) (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (k) Services in the sphere of industrial property (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Only a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, who is permanently residing in the Kyrgyz Republic, has the right to provide services (in the sphere of industrial property) as a patent agent (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Only a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, who is permanently residing in the Kyrgyz Republic, has the right to provide services (in the sphere of industrial property) as a patent agent B. Other Business Services
(a) Advertising services (CPC 871)
(c) Management consulting services (CPC 865, 866)
(e) Technical testing and analysis services
(CPC 8676) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (f) Services incidental to agriculture, hunting and forestry (CPC 881) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (g) Services incidental to fishing (CPC 882) (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) Unbound
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (h) Services incidental to mining (CPC 883, 5115)
(i) Services incidental to manufacturing (CPC 884, 885, except for 88442) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (j) Services incidental to energy distribution
(CPC 887) (1) Unbound
(2) Unbound
(3) None, except for services on distribution of electric energy
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) Unbound
(2) Unbound
(3) None, except for services on distribution of electric energy
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (m) Scientific and technical consulting services
(CPC 8675)
(n) Maintenance and repair of equipment (not including maritime vessels, aircraft or other transport equipment) (CPC 633, 88618866)
(r) Printing, publishing (CPC 88442)
(s) Convention services (CPC 87909*)
(t) Market research and public opinion monitoring services (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments 2. (4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (b) Packetswitched data transmission services
(CPC 7523**)
(c) Circuitswitched data transmission services
(CPC 7523) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (f) Facsimile services (CPC 7521**, 7529**)
(h) Electronic mail (CPC 7523**)
(i) Voice mail
(CPC 7523**) (j) Online information and data base retrieval
(CPC 7523**)
(k) Electronic data interchange (EDI) (CPC 7523**) (l) Enhanced/valueadded facsimile services, incl. Secondary Education Services (CPC 922) (1) None, except for on secondary education services funded from State sources
(2) None
(3) None, except for on secondary education services funded from State sources
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None, except for on secondary education services funded from State sources
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments C. This distinction will be eliminated by 31 December 2002 (d) All payment and money transmission services (CPC 81339**) (4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (e) Guarantees and commitments
(CPC 81199**)
(f) Trading for own account or for account of customers, whether on an exchange, in an overthecounter market or otherwise, the following: - money market instruments (cheques, bills, certificate of deposits, etc. Services Auxiliary to all Modes of Transport
(CPC 741, 742, 748) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (d) Services on transport tickets reservation by means of computers (CPC 749) (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments (1) None
(2) None
(3) None
(4) Unbound except as indicated under horizontal commitments The (*) indicates that the service specified is a component of a more aggregated CPC item specified elsewhere in this classification list. Such interconnection is provided:
- under nondiscriminatory 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 nonaffiliated service suppliers or for its subsidiaries or other affiliates;
- in a timely fashion, on terms, conditions (including technical standards and specifications) and costoriented 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, 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. Public availability of licensing criteria
Where a licence is required, the following will be made publicly available:
- all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a decision concerning an application for a licence; and
- the terms and conditions of individual licences. Allocation and use of scarce resources
Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers and rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and nondiscriminatory manner.
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