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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS  
TO THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE IN SERVICES (20 22) 
Since its 20 21 annual report to the Council for Trade in Services1, the Committee on Specific 
Commitments (CSC) held three formal meetings, on 18 October 2021, 10  March 2022  and 
1 July 2022 respectively.2 At these meetings, t he Committee consider ed three items: 
Implement ation of Specific Commitments, Classification Issues and Scheduling Issues . 
 
1  IMPLEMENTATION OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS  
1.  During the reporting period, the Committee continued to examine conditional commitments 
contained in the Schedules of Specific Commitments under the GATS, an exercise initiated by  a 
Communication from the United States dated 5  March 2020  with a view to improving transparency 
of commitments .3 The exercise was facilitated by the Compilation of Conditional Commitments 
prepared by the Secretariat.4 The Compilation encompasses those entri es in the Schedules of 
Specific Commitments under the GATS  which make the  entry into force , implementation , or updating 
of specific commitments conditional upon a domestic process such as new legislation or policy 
review. Information related to the impleme ntation of conditional commitments were later added  to 
the Compilation, subject to the availability of information.5 Members were also invited to verify and 
complement such information.  
2.  Engagement in the exercise on conditional commitments was on a volunt ary basis. During the 
reporting period, a few Members provided updates on the implementation of their commitments 
included in the Compilation , and four further revisions of the Compilation w ere circulated  
accordingly .6 In particular , Thailand informed the  Committee of the implementation of its conditional 
commitments in telecommunications and the certification of the improvements of its schedule 
pursuant to document S/L/84.  
3.  At the meetings of 10 March and 1 July 2022, the Committee considered a proposal 
(S/CSC/W/73) from the delegation of Türkiye on implementation issues related to specific 
commitments and Article II (MFN) on cross -border supply of road transport services under the GATS. 
The proposal mainly raised three issues for discussion  in the Commit tee: 1) the compatibility of 
imposing truck quotas with full market access commitments in Mode 1 o n road transport services ; 
2) the understanding of  "Unbound " in market access and "None" in national treatment  with respect 
to cross-border supply of road transport ; and 3)  the MFN obligation  with respect to all measures 
affecting international road transport including truck quotas, passage fees, customs measures , etc. 
Some delegations noted that they were still considering the proposal and would revert to it with 
more detailed comments. Some other delegations indicated that  the Committee was not  an 
appropriate body to interpret schedules .  
 
1 Annual Report of the Committee on Specific Commitments to the Council for Trade in Services (20 21), 
contained in document S/CSC/2 7 dated 19 October  2021.  
2 The reports of these meetings are contained in documents S/CSC/M/8 7, S/CSC/M/8 8 corrected by 
S/CSC/M/88/Corr.1,  and S/CSC/M/8 9, which should be read in conjunction with this report.  
3 The communication from the United States is contained in document S/CSC /W/69.  
4 The Compilation of Conditional Commitments is contained in document S/CSC/ W/70.  
5 S/CSC/ W/70/Rev.1.  
6 S/CSC/ W/70/Rev.2, S/CSC/ W/70/Rev.3, S/CSC/ W/70/Rev.4  and S/CSC/W/70/Rev.5 . S/CSC/ 28 
 
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  2  CLASSIFICATION ISSUES  
4.  At the meeting on 1 8 October  2021, the UN Statistics Division presented to the Committee an 
additional tool to help visualize the correspondence between the CPC Provisional and CPC 
Version  2.1. This was welcomed by Members. Members also showed interest in adding the Services 
Sectoral Classification List (MTN.GNS/W/120) to the visualization tool. At the subsequent meetings 
during the reporting period, t he Secretariat inform ed the Committee of the  progress in this respect.  
3  SCHEDULING ISSUES  
5.  The Committee did not engage in substantive discussions under this item.  
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