Current international trade rules relevant to telecommunications services

The WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 34-50

  Luff, David ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

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EID: 23744499121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511674471.004     Document Type: Chapter

References (7)

1. Article I.1 of the GATS. In accordance with Article I:3, GATS rules apply to central, regional or local public authorities, and non-governmental bodies in the exercise of powers delegated by the above public authorities.
2. Body Report, ‘European Communities-Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas’, 9 September 1997, WT/DS27/AB/R, para. 234.
3. Article VIII:5 of the GATS. The notion ofmonopoly suppliers does not include de facto monopolies, i.e. those which benefit froman exclusive sale capacity by the mere operation of market forces (see Article XXVIII(h) of the GATS).
4. The European Community, However, reserved the possibility to impose corrective measures against injurious prices in the audio-visual services sector, In their MFN Exemption List.
5. Appellate Body Report, ‘European Communities – Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas’, 9 September 1997, WT/DS27/AB/R, p. 101
6. Report, ‘Japan –Measures Affecting Consumer Photographic Film and Paper’, WT/DS44/R, paras. 10.49 and 10.376.
7. Background Note of the Secretariat of the WTO, ‘Telecommunications Services’, Doc. S/C/W/74, 8 December 1998.