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DECISION CONCERNING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Ministers recommend that the Council for Trade in Services at its
first meeting shall adopt the decision set out below.
WORKING PARTY ON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
The Council for Trade in Services,
Recognizing the impact of regulatory measures relating to professional
qualifications, technical standards and licensing on the expansion of trade
in professional services,
Desiring to establish multilateral disciplines with a view to ensuring
that, when specific commitments are undertaken, such regulatory measures do
not constitute unnecessary barriers to the supply of professional services,
Decides as follows:
1. The work programme foreseen in Article VI, paragraph 4 on domestic
Regulations should be put into effect immediately. To this end, a Working
Party shall be established to examine and report, with recommendations, on
the disciplines necessary to ensure that measures relating to qualification
requirements and procedures, technical standards and licensing requirements
in the field of professional services do not constitute unnecessary barriers
to trade.
2. As a matter of priority, the Working Party shall make recommendations
for the elaboration of multilateral disciplines in the accountancy sector,
so as to give operational effect to specific commitments. In making these
recommendations, the Working Party shall concentrate on:
- developing multilateral disciplines relating to market access so
as to ensure that domestic regulatory requirements are: (a)
based on objective and transparent criteria, such as competence
and the ability to supply the service; (b) not more burdensome
than necessary to ensure the quality of the service, thereby
facilitating the effective liberalization of accountancy
services;
- the use of international standards and, in doing so, it shall
encourage the cooperation with the relevant international
organizations as defined under Article VI, paragraph 5(b), so as
to give fully effect to Article VI, paragraph 5;
- facilitating the effective application of Article VI, paragraph
6, of the Agreement by establishing guidelines for the
recognition of qualifications.
In elaborating these disciplines, the Working Party shall take account
of the importance of the governmental and non-governmental bodies
regulating professional services.