GATS/SC/152  
 
1 April 2015  
(15-1820)  Page: 1/15  
Trade in Services   
 
 YEMEN 
SCHEDULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS 
(This is authentic in English only) 
 
 
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Modes of Supply:  (1) Cross-Border supply   (2)  Consumption abroad  (3)  Commercial Presence  (4)  Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub-sector Limitations on Market Access Limi tations on National Treatment Additional Commitments 
I. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 
Minimum foreign investments 
  (3) Minimum foreign investment is 
YR 50 million except in the following sectors: 
 1. Business services 
 
7.B. (xv) Provision and transfer of financial 
information, and financial data processing and related software by providers of other financial services. 
 
7.B. (xvi) Advisory, intermediation and other 
auxiliary financial services on all the activities listed in sub-paragraph (v) 
to (xv), including credit reference and 
analysis, investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on acquisitions and on corporate restructuring strategy. 
 
9.B. Travel agency and tour operator services  (CPC 74710). 
 
10.B. News agency services (CPC962). 
 
11.H.(c) Maritime freight transport agency 
services.  
Subsidies 
  (3) & (4) unbound with regards to subsidies, 
grants, tax incentives and tax credits.  
Acquisition of land 
  (3) Non Yemenis are not allowed to purchase 
land and properties; however, they can lease land and properties for business purposes in specific sectors and sub-sectors covered in this schedule.   
Temporary Entry and Stay of Natural 
Persons 
 (4) Unbound, except for temporary entry 
and stay of natural persons in the categories listed below.   
 (4) As in the market access column.  
  
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 Business visitors:  
Persons not based in Yemen, who are 
engaged in activities re lated to representing 
a service supplier for the purpose of negotiating for the sale of services of that supplier where: 
(a) such sales are not directly made to the 
general public, and 
 (b) the sales person is not engaged in 
supplying the service. 
Duration of stay for persons named in this 
category is limited up to 90 days.   
Persons responsible for setting up a 
commercial presence 
Persons who are employees of an enterprise 
not having commercial presence in Yemen, who stay temporarily in Yemen for the 
purpose of setting up a commercial presence 
of that enterprise in Yemen.  
Duration of stay for persons named in this 
category is limited to 1 year, which may be extended, upon provision of legitimate justification.    
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 Intra-corporate transferees 
 
Managers, executives and specialists as defined below, who are employees of firms that provide services in Yemen through a branch or subsidiary established in Yemen 
and who have been in the prior employment 
of their firm outside Yemen for a period of not less than 1 year prior to the date of application for entry and who fall with one of the following categories: 
   
 A.  Executives and Managers:   
 Persons within an organization who 
primarily direct the organization or a department or sub-division of the organization, supervise or control the work of their 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 authorisation) and exercise discretionary authority over day-to-day operations.   
 B.  Specialists:  
 Persons within an organization who 
possess technical knowledge at an advanced level of continued expertise and who possess proprietary 
knowledge of the organization's 
services, research techniques or management techniques (specialists may include but are not limited to members of licensed professions).   
  
 Duration of stay for ICT listed above is 
limited to 3 years, renewable up to 5 years.   
 Total number of foreign staff, excluding executives and other higher management of 
any establishment should not exceed 20%.  
However, a minimum of three persons will be allowed.    
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II. SECTOR SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS 
I. BUSINESS SERVICES 
A. Professional Services 
(a) Legal services:  
 
 Legal advisory services in foreign law 
and international law (part of CPC 861)  (1) None 
(2) None (3) None  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None  (3) None  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
(b) Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping 
services (CPC 862)  
 
 (1) Unbound 
(2) Unbound (3) None; except that access is restricted 
to foreign accounting companies 
licensed/registered at their home country with more than 8 years' experience and only in general partnership
1 with Yemeni licensed 
accountants with foreign participation ceiling of 49% 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
(2) Unbound  (3) None 
 
      (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(d) Architectural services (CPC 8671) 
(e) Engineering services (CPC 8672) (f) Integrated engineering services (CPC 
8673)  
(g) Urban planning and landscape 
architectural services (CPC 8674) (1) Unbound  
(2) Unbound  (3) None 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
(2) Unbound  (3) None  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(h) Specialized medical services 
(CPC 93122)  (1) None 
(2) None (3) None   (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) Grants to patients may only be used at 
certain state/public health institutions. 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
B. Computer and Related Services 
(a) Consultancy services related to the 
installation of computer hardware (CPC 841) 
(b) Software implementation services 
(CPC 842) 
(c) Data processing services (CPC 843) (d) Database services (CPC 844) (e) Other (CPC 845, 849)  (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as provided under 
horizontal section  
                                               
1 General partnership is a firm in which all partners are jointly and severally liable for the rights and obligations of the fir m.  A general partnershi p must be established 
and registered in accordance with the pr ovisions of the companies' law, and othe r existing related laws and regulations.  
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F. Other Business Services  
(a) Advertising services ( CPC 871) 
(c) Management consulting service 
(CPC 865) 
(d) Services related to management 
consulting (CPC 866) (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(e) Technical testing and analysis services 
(CPC 8676)  
 (1) None  
(2) None (3) None 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
(2) Unbound (3) Unbound 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(h) Services incidental to mining 
(CPC 883, 5115) 
 (m) Related scientific and technical 
consulting services (CPC 8675) (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) Unbound 
(2) Unbound (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(n) Maintenance and repair of equipment 
(not including maritime vessels, aircraft or other transport equipment).  (CPC 633, 8861-8866)  
 (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
2. COMMUNICATION SERVICES  
B. Courier Services  
Courier Services (CPC 7512) 
   (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section Private operators cannot be treated less 
favourably than Yemen's National Post Authority in providin g express delivery 
services. 
C. Telecommunication Services 
Commitments are taken consistent with "Notes for Scheduling Basi c Telecom Services Commitments" (S/GBT/W/2/Rev.1) and "Market A ccess Limitations on Spectrum Availability" 
(S/GBT/W/3).  
(a) Voice telephone services  
(b) Packet-switched data transmission 
services  
(c) Circuit-switched data transmission 
services  
(d) Telex services  (e) Telegraph services  (f) Facsimile services  (g) Leased circuits services  (1) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(2) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(3) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None 
 
(2) None  (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section Yemen undertakes the obligations 
contained in the Reference Paper 
attached hereto.   
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(h) Electronic mail 
(i) Voice mail (j) On-line information and database 
retrieval  
(k) Electronic data interchange (EDI)  (l) Enhanced/value added facsimile 
services including store and forward, 
store and retrieve  
(m) Code and protocol conversion  (n) On-line information and data 
processing (1) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(2) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(3) Unbound until December 2014, 
starting January 2015 none 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None 
 (2) None  (3) None  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
Mobile Telecommunications Services 
 (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
D. Audio-visual services  
1. Nothing in this commitment shall require Yemen to provide a mean s of exhibition or transmission of audio-visual services not  offered by the Yemeni Government to the public 
generally. 
2. Audio-visual services list below are not to be supplied directly to the public.  
(a) Motion picture and home video 
entertainment distribution services 
(CPC 96113) to other industries for 
public entertainment, television broadcasting, or sale or rental to others
2 (1) None 
(2) None  
(3) Unbound  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section 
 (1) None 
(2) None  
(3) Unbound  
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
(e) Sound recording  (1) None 
(2) None  (3) Unbound  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None  (3) Unbound  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
3. CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED ENGINEERING SERVICES  
A. General construction work for buildings 
(CPC 512)  
B. General construction work for civil 
engineering (CPC 513)  
C. Installation and assembly work 
(CPC 514, 516)  
D. Building completion and finishing work 
(CPC 517)  (1) Unbound  
(2) None 
(3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None 
(3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
                                               
2 For purposes of clarity, this commitment relates only to distribution, i.e., lic ensing of motion pictures or videotapes, and d oes not cover their television broadcast.  
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4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES  
A. Retail trade services  
 (CPC 631, 632, 6111, 6113, 6121)   (1) None 
(2) None (3) Unbound  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) Unbound  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
B. Wholesale trade services (CPC 622)  (1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
5. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 
C. Higher Education Services 
 (CPC 923) 
 D. Adult Education Services (CPC 924)  (1) Unbound  
(2) None 
(3) None   (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
(2) None 
(3) Government scholarships and grants are 
only awarded to students in government educational institutions. 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
E. Other Education Services (CPC 929). 
 Training services (language training, 
drivers training, executive management training, information technology training); education testing services; after school courses; educational 
programs offered during school breaks; 
and tutoring and preparatory courses.  (1) None 
(2) None (3) None   (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) Government scholarships and grants are 
only awarded to students in government educational institutions 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES  
A. Sewage services (CPC 94010) 
 B. Refuse disposal services (CPC 94020)   C. Sanitation and similar services 
(CPC 9403)   
 D. Other   - cleaning services for exhaust gases 
(CPC 9403)  
- nature and landscape protection 
services (CPC 9406)  
- noise abatement services (CPC 9405) (1) None 
(2) None (3) Unbound until laws and regulations are 
established or 3 years after accession, whichever is earlier. Thereafter, none 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
 (1) None 
(2) None (3) None   
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section 
   
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7. FINANCIAL SERVICES 
The classification of the financial services is based on the classification of the financial services in the Annex on Financial  Services in the GATS.  
A. Insurance and Insurance Related Services 
(i) Direct Insurance 
(A) Life  
(B) Non-life  
 (1) Unbound, except none starting 3 years 
after accession only for insurance of 
risks relating to marine shipping and 
commercial aviation and space launching and freight (including satellites), with such insurance to cover any or all of the following:  the goods being transported, the vehicle transporting the goods and any liability arising there from  
 
(2) Unbound, except none starting 3 years 
after accession only for insurance of risks relating to marine shipping and 
commercial aviation and space 
launching and freight (including satellites), with such insurance to cover any or all of the following:  the goods being transported, the vehicle transporting the goods and any liability arising there from 
(3) Starting 3 years after accession, 
commercial presence is allowed in the form of branches of foreign insurance companies 
 
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
 
 
        (2) Unbound    
 
      (3) None      
(4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
 
(ii) Reinsurance and retrocession     (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
(iii) Insurance intermediation (brokerage 
and agency)  
 (iv) Services auxiliary to insurance 
(consultancy, actuarial, risk 
assessment and claims settlement 
services) (1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section 
 (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section 
   
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B. Banking and Other Financial Services 
(v) Acceptance of deposits and other 
repayable funds from the public; 
(vi) Lending of all types, including, 
inter alia , consumer credit, mortgage 
credit, factoring and financing of commercial transactions; 
(vii) Financial leasing; (viii) All payment and money transmission 
services including credit, charge and 
debit cards, travellers cheques and 
bankers drafts;  
(ix) Guarantees and commitments;  (x) Trading for own account or for account 
of customers, whether on an exchange, in an over-the-counter market or otherwise, the following: 
 (A) money-market instruments 
(cheques, bills, certificates of deposits, etc.) 
 (B) foreign exchange  (1) Unbound  
(2) None   (3)(i) None for locally incorporated joint 
stock banks with a foreign equity ceiling of 60% 
    (ii) Starting 5 years after accession, 
branches of international banks licensed and supervised as banks 
in their home country are allowed 
to establish in Yemen 
    (iii) Representative offices of foreign 
banks are not allowed to take deposits or undertake any kind of banking business 
 (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None   (3) None      
 
      (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
        
 
       
 (C) derivative prod ucts including, but 
not limited to, futures and 
options 
 (D) exchange rate and interest rate 
instruments, other than swap 
 (E) transferable securities   (F) other negotiable instruments and 
financial assets, including bullion.    
(xi) Participation in issues of all kinds of 
securities, including underwriting and placement as agent (whether publicly or privately) and provision of service – related to such issues; 
(xii) Money broking;  
(xiii)  Asset management, such as cash or 
portfolio management, all forms of collective investment management, custodial depository and trust services.  (Pension Fund Management excluded);  
(xiv) Settlement and clearing services for 
financial assets, including securities, derivative products, and other negotiable instruments.  (1) Unbound 
(2) None (3) None when the Government authorises 
such business, determines what types of entities can conduct these services, 
the related laws and regulation are 
established 
 (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None   
 
  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
    
 
   
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(xv) Provision and transfer of financial 
information, and financial data processing and related software by providers of other financial services; 
(xvi) Advisory, intermediation and other 
auxiliary financial services on all the 
activities listed in subparagraphs (v) to 
(xv), including credit reference and analysis, investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on acquisitions and on corporate restructuring strategy. (1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
8. HEALTH RELATED AN D SOCIAL SERVICES 
A. Hospitals with more than 100 beds 
(part of CPC 93110) 
   (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES 
A. Hotels, only 4- and 5-stars categories 
hotels (part of CPC 64110) restaurants (CPC 6421-6422)  
 (1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None 
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
B. Travel agency and tour operator 
services (CPC 74710)  (1) None  
(2) None  (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) Unbound  
(2) None  (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in horizontal 
section  
10. RECREATIONAL CULTURAL AND SPORTING SERVICES 
B. News agency services (CPC 962)  
    (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section (1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section   
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11. TRANSPORT SERVICES  
A. Maritime Transport Services  
 (a) Passenger transportation (CPC 7211)  (b) Freight transporta tion (CPC 7212)  
(c) Rental of vessels with crew 
(CPC 7213)  
  
 (1) None  (2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
 (1) None  (2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section The following services at the port are 
made available to international maritime transport suppliers on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions:  1. Pilotage 2. Towing and the tug assistance 3. Provisioning, fuelling and watering 
4. Garbage collecting and ballast 
waste disposal  
5. Port captain's services  6. Navigation aids 7. Shore-based operational services 
essential to ship operations including communications, water and electrical supplies 
8. Emergency repair facilities  9. Anchorage, berth and berthing 
E. Rail Transport Services  
(a) Passenger transportation (CPC 7111) 
(b) Freight transporta tion (CPC 7112)   
 
(1) None  
(2) None (3) None  (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
 
(1) None  
(2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
H. Services Auxiliary to maritime 
transport services only 
 (a) Maritime cargo-handling services
3  
(b) Maritime storage and warehouse 
services  
(c) Maritime freigh t transport agency 
services   
  (1) None  (2) None (3) Foreign equity ceiling of 51% (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
  (1) None  (2) None (3) None (4) Unbound, except as indicated in the 
horizontal section  
                                               
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  ANNEX 
TELECOMMUNICATION REFERENCE PAPER 
Scope 
The following are definitions and principles on the regulatory framework for the basic 
telecommunications services.   
Definitions 
Users mean service consumers and service suppliers.   
Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network or service that: 
 (a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of 
suppliers; and 
 (b) cannot feasibly be economically or technically substituted in order to provide a 
service. 
A major supplier is a supplier which has the ability to materially affect the terms of participation 
(having regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for basic telecommunications services 
as a result of: 
 (a) control over essential facilities; or 
 (b) use of its position in the market. 
1. Competitive safeguards 
1.1 Prevention of anti-competitive practices in telecommunications 
 Appropriate measures shall be maintained fo r the purpose of preventing suppliers who, 
alone or together, are a major supplier from en gaging in or continuing anti-competitive 
practices. 
1.2 Safeguards 
 The anti-competitive practices referred to above shall include in particular: 
 (a) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidization;   
 (b) using information obtained from competitors with anti-competitive results; and  (c) not making available to other services suppliers on a timely basis technical 
information about essential facilities and commercially relevant information which 
are necessary for them to provide services.  
2. Interconnection 
2.1 This section applies to linking with suppliers providing public telecommunications transport 
networks or services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users 
of another supplier and to access services provided by another supplier, where specific commitments are undertaken. 
2.2 Interconnection to be ensured 
 Interconnection with a major supplier will be ensured at any technically feasible point in 
the network.  Such interconnection is provided: GATS/SC/152 
 
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   (a) under non-discriminatory 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  non-affiliated service suppliers or for its 
subsidiaries or other affiliates; 
 (b) in a timely fashion, on terms, conditions (including technical standards and 
specifications) and cost-oriented 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 
 (c) upon request, at points in addition to the network termination points offered to the 
majority of users, subject to charges that reflect the cost of construction of necessary additional facilities. 
2.3 Public availability of the procedures for interconnection negotiations 
 The procedures applicable for interconnection to a major supplier will be made publicly 
available. 
2.4 Transparency of interconnection arrangements 
 It is ensured that a major supplier will make publicly available either its interconnection 
agreements or a reference interconnection offer. 
2.5 Interconnection:  dispute settlement 
 A service supplier requesting interconnection with a major supplier will have recourse, 
either: 
 (a) at any time; or 
 (b) after a reasonable period of time which has been made publicly known 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. 
3. Universal service 
 Any Member has the right to define the kind of universal service obligation it wishes to 
maintain.  Such obligations will not be regarded as anti-competitive per se , provided they 
are administered in a transparent, non-discriminatory and competitively neutral manner and are not more burdensome than necessary for the kind of universal service defined by the Member.   
4. Public availability of licensing criteria 
 Where a licence is required, the following will be made publicly available:  (a) all the licensing criteria and the period of time normally required to reach a 
decision concerning an application for a licence; and 
 (b) the terms and conditions of individual licenses. 
 The reasons for the denial of a licence will be made known to the applicant upon request. 5. Independent regulators 
 The regulatory body is separate from, an d not accountable to, any supplier of basic 
telecommunications services.  The decisions of and the procedures used by regulators shall 
be impartial with respect to all market participants. GATS/SC/152 
 
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  6. Allocation and use of scarce resources 
 Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, 
n u m b e r s  a n d  r i g h t s  o f  w a y ,  w i l l  b e  c a r r i e d  o u t  i n  a n  o b j e c t i v e ,  t i m e l y ,  t r a n s p a r e n t  a nd  
non-discriminatory manner.  The current state of allocated frequency bands will be made publicly available, but detailed identification of frequencies allocated for specific 
government uses is not required. 
 
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