Moreover, an agreement on safeguards in services was necessary.

The agreement reached brings basic telecommunications into the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

In terms of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), health services include medical and dental services services provided by midwives, nurses, physiotherapists and para medical personnel hospital services and other human health services.

Agreement by the Croatian Pension Fund on Pension Services (29 May 1997)

Agreement by the Ministry of Health on Regional Health Services (6 June 1997)

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was adopted in 1994 and is the first trade agreement to cover investment in services.44 It provides a legal framework for trade in services, defined to cover a range of areas, including investment, financial services, communications, transportation, education, energy, water and movement of persons.

Agreement for air services between and beyond their respective territories (with annex and exchange of notes).

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

Following the conclusion of the Information Technology Agreement in Singapore (December 1996), WTO members proceeded to successfully negotiating the Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services (Geneva, February 1997).

In the area of financial services, the General Agreement on Trade in Services provided for gradual liberalization based on the level of development of individual sectors and the services sector as a whole.

Many national civil services, including the comparator, provided for family leave through either legislation or collective agreement.

Foreigners must also obtain the agreement of the relevant provincial ministry that their professional services are needed.

Prior to that date the services were provided under a similar agreement signed between UNDP and IFAD.

Took note of the report on the status of management services agreement (DP 1997 24 Add.2) and recommended that the Administrator continue the management service agreement modality

28. The agreement will contain a provision allowing each party to terminate the agreement and or the services of the gratis personnel provided under the agreement upon one month s written notice by the other party. A 52 698

The reason behind the framework agreement between early childhood centers and local community services centers was to better structure and harmonize educational child care services, health services and social services for children and their families, particularly the most vulnerable and the most disadvantaged.

The banking services agreement between the United Nations and Standard Chartered Bank signed on 8 October 2004 provides banking services for the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI).

), a framework agreement concluded with five ERA service providers, designed to supply the ERA services to the public sector.

That should not prevent the termination of the gratis service agreement, however, when the services were no longer needed.

There is broad agreement on the need for support mechanisms and business development services for the promotion of SMEs.

Rapid progress must also be made to improve the development potential of trade in services by liberalizing the temporary supply of labour services (mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and cross border supply of services via outsourcing and offshoring (mode 1).

The developing countries face a major challenge of strengthening the capabilities of their domestic services to derive full benefits from the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

36. The provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) were expected to provide grounds for liberalization of trade in services such that growth would be further enhanced.

13 For the full text of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, see http www.wto.org english tratob_e serv.e gatsintr_e.htm.

The modalities of application of Article IV of the General Agreement on Trade in Services had also to be examined.

In many respects, telecommunications have become an infrastructure service for international flows of goods, services and capital and in many respects also, the new dynamics of multilateral trade negotiations (as visible through the placing of a trade facilitation item on the WTO agenda, or the sequence Information Technology Agreement (ITA) Telecommunications Basic Services Agreement Financial Services negotiation constitute further evidence of this phenomenon

Discussions also focus on definitions and principles, where Members seek to draw on the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and the Agreement on Agriculture, while keeping in mind the specificities of services.

8. Experts also observed that, despite their limitations, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments contained some market access opportunities in relation to health services, including on movement of persons.

Supplementing this step, and concurrently with it, work has begun on the preparation of an Arab agreement on trade in services.

The agreement distinguishes between the oversight and services to be provided by UNDP for UNIFEM operations, thereby clarifying areas of responsibility.

The additional requirements under this heading related to the increased costs of mine detection and mine clearing services under a memorandum of agreement as replacement for services previously provided by a demining contingent.

Seen from that perspective, the liberalization of electronic commerce constitutes a missing link between the ITA telecom agreement on the one hand and further efforts to liberalize trade in other services such as financial services or professional services, on the other hand.

Under this agreement, the Office, as a cooperating institution, provides loan administration and project supervision services for a portfolio of IFAD projects.

Sr Suzette attended a Strategy Meeting on the General Agreement on Trade in Services in Geneva from 23 March to 16 April, 2004.

11. Services to IFAD are provided on the basis of a cooperation agreement which the Office signed with IFAD on 20 September 1995.

Within the context of the new UN Campus in Bonn, the Common Services Unit has identified a range of possible future common services, including common procurement for basic standard items (office supplies and equipment), common management of photocopiers and fax machine maintenance, common inventory and asset management, management of common shuttle services, common protocol services, an interagency agreement on legal services, etc.

This has posed constraints to their full participation in the negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services.13 Active implementation of articles IV (increasing participation of developing countries) and XIX 2 (progressive liberalization) of the Agreement would increase the competitiveness of service supply of developing countries and beneficial engagement in trade in services.

For example, the Agreement for the Complementarity of Services between the health and social services network and the education network deals with all aspects of intervention with respect to the development of young people, e.g., fostering health and well being, education, prevention, adjustment and rehabilitation services.

43. The United Nations Office for Project Services should establish a formal agreement with UNDP that country offices provide the Office with a breakdown of their estimated costs in support of management service agreement activities in the field.

India and Sri Lanka would cooperate further under a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that would include investment and services, in addition to goods.

UNICEF agrees to initiate negotiations at the appropriate level to conclude a framework agreement on pharmaceutical procurement services with other relevant United Nations organizations.

Williams, Tourism Liberalization, gender and the GATS, Economic Literacy Series General Agreement on Trade in Services No. 5 (International Gender and Trade Network, 2003).

The provision of similar support to staff of the specialized agencies, and the funds and programmes is managed under a common services agreement framework.

40. The United Nations Office for Project Services should revise the bases for calculating management service agreement fees to reflect current costs more accurately.