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COMUNICACIÓN DEL REINO UNIDO DE GRAN BRETAÑA  
E IRLANDA DEL NORTE  
CERTIFICACIÓN DE LA LISTA DE COMPROMISOS ESPECÍFICOS  
El Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (en adelante el "Reino Unido") ha presentado a 
la Secretaría de la OMC la siguiente comunicación, con el ruego de que se inicie el procedimiento de 
certificación de la Lista de compromisos específicos del Reino Unido anexa al AGCS de conformidad 
con los "Procedimientos pa ra la certificación de rectificaciones o mejoras de las Listas de 
compromisos específicos" (S/L/84). Por consiguiente, si en el plazo de 45 días contados a partir de 
la fecha de la presente comunicación no se notifican objeciones1 a la Secretaría, se dará por concluido 
el procedimiento de certificación y se certificará la Lista del Reino  Unido adjunta.  
 
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La Lista de compromisos específicos del Reino Unido que figura adjunta (en adelante la "Lista del 
Reino Unido") ha sido presentada a la Se cretaría de la OMC por el Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e 
Irlanda del Norte (en adelante, el "Reino Unido") con la solicitud de que se inicie el correspondiente 
procedimiento de certificación de conformidad con el párrafo 1 de los Procedimientos para la 
certificación de rectificaciones o mejoras de las Listas de compromisos específicos (documento 
S/L/84, de 18 de abril de  2000).  
 
La presente comunicación consta de cuatro partes:  
 
• Parte I: Nota por la que se solicita la iniciación del procedimiento de certific ación y se 
indican los antecedentes y la base jurídica del procedimiento de certificación  
 
• Parte II: Nota explicativa sobre los cambios de naturaleza meramente técnica reflejados 
en la Lista del Reino Unido (de conformidad con el párrafo 1 del documento S/L/84)  
 
• Parte III: Lista del Reino Unido en que se indican los cambios técnicos2 
 
• Parte IV: Versión en limpio de la Lista del Reino Unido3 
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1 De conformidad con el párrafo 2 del documento S/L/84, todo Miembro que desee formular objeciones 
respecto de la certificación presentará una notificación en tal sentido a la Secretaría para que se distribuya a 
todos los Miembros, en la medida de lo posibl e identificando los elementos específicos de la modificación que 
motivan su objeción.  
2 En inglés solamente.  
3 En inglés solamente.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  PARTE I  
NOTA POR LA QUE SE SOLICITA LA INICIACIÓN DEL  PROCEDIMIENTO DE  
CERTIFICACIÓN Y SE INDICAN LOS ANTECEDENTES Y LA BASE  
JURÍDICA DEL PROCEDIMIENTO DE CERTIFICACIÓN  
1. El 29 de marzo de  2017 el Reino Unido activó el artículo 50 del Tratado de Funcionamiento de 
la Unión Europea. En consecuencia, el Reino  Unido desea ahora separar sus compromisos en el 
marco del AGCS de los de la UE y sus Estados miembros. Ese es el propósito del Reino Unido al 
iniciar el presente procedimiento de certificación.  
2. Como se indica en la carta conjunta de 11 de octubre de  2017 remitida por el Representante 
Permanente del Reino Unido y el Representante Permanente de la Unión Europea a los 
Representantes Permanentes ante la OMC, la Lista del Reino Unido reproduce las concesiones y 
compromisos aplicables al Reino Unido consignad os en la siguiente Lista de compromisos específicos 
y sus suplementos (colectivamente, la "Lista  de la UE"):  
• Lista de compromisos específicos de las Comunidades Europeas y sus Estados 
miembros (documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994) - GATS/SC/31 ; 
• Lista de compromisos específicos de las Comunidades Europeas y sus Estados 
miembros, suplemento 2 (documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.2, de 28 de julio de  1995) - 
GATS/SC/31/Suppl.2 ; 
• Lista de compromisos específicos de las Co munidades Europeas y sus Estados 
miembros, suplemento 3 (documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.3, de 11 de abril de  1997) - 
GATS/SC/31/Suppl.3 ; 
• Lista de compromisos específicos de las Comunidades Europeas y sus Estados 
miembros,  suplemento 4, revisión (documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1, de  18 de 
noviembre de  1999) - GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1 . 
3. De conformidad con el párrafo 1 del documento S/L/84, se adjunta una nota explicativa sobre 
los cambios de naturaleza meramente técnica que no alteran el alcance ni la esencia de los 
compromisos en vigor y que no son resultado de medidas adoptadas al amparo de los procedimientos 
para la aplicación del artículo XXI del AGCS.  
4. El Reino Unido está disp uesto a celebrar, previa solicitud, consultas con cualquier Miembro de 
la OMC que formule una objeción de conformidad con el párrafo 2 del documento S/L/84. A fin de 
garantizar la eficacia de las consultas, el Reino Unido solicita a los Miembros que formul en objeciones 
que identifiquen, en la medida de lo posible, los elementos específicos que hayan motivado su 
objeción.  
5. Si no se comunican objeciones a la Secretaría en un plazo de 45 días contados a partir de la 
fecha de distribución de la Lista del Rein o Unido, el presente procedimiento de certificación se 
considerará concluido, y la Lista del Reino Unido entrará en vigor en una fecha que será especificada 
por el Reino Unido.1 
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1 La fecha de aplicación que se especifique no será anterior a la fecha de vencimiento del período de 
transición acordado en tre la Unión Europea y el Reino Unido de conformidad con el artículo 50 del Tratado de la 
Unión Europea o, en ausencia de ese período, al 30 de marzo de  2019.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  PARTE II  
NOTA EXPLICATIVA SOBRE LOS CAMBIOS  DE NATURALEZA MERAMENTE TÉCNICA  
(DE CONFORMIDAD CON EL PÁRRAFO 1 DEL DOCUMENTO S/L/84)  
1. El texto auténtico que recoge los compromisos vigentes del Reino Unido es la Lista de la UE. 
Por lo tanto, los documentos que integran esa Lista son los que se han tomado como punto de 
partida para elaborar la Lista del Reino Unido. El principio en el que se basa la elaboración de la Lista 
del Reino Unido es que el Reino Unido está obligado por los compromisos que contrajo en virtud de 
la Lista de la UE. El Reino Uni do también desea reflejar los cambios, por motivos de claridad de la 
presentación, así como los compromisos que ofreció a los Miembros de la OMC en el marco de la 
Lista de compromisos de la UE -25 (S/C/W/273 y Add.1). La Lista de la UE -25 (que no está en vi gor 
actualmente) fue certificada por la OMC y ratificada por el Reino Unido. Como el presente proceso 
de certificación es de carácter técnico, el procedimiento que es apropiado seguir es el establecido 
en el documento S/L/84.  
 
2. De conformidad con el párrafo  1 del documento S/L/84, la presente nota tiene por objeto 
indicar, con respecto a la Lista del Reino Unido, las rectificaciones y mejoras (en  adelante, "los 
cambios técnicos"), que no reducen el alcance ni la esencia de los compromisos en vigor.  
 
3. Para fac ilitar el examen, en la presente nota se describen de manera sistemática los cambios 
técnicos que se han introducido para separar los compromisos del Reino Unido de los de la UE y sus 
Estados miembros.  
 
4. En la presente nota se describen sucesivamente: I) lo s cambios técnicos generales; II)  los 
cambios técnicos introducidos en las anotaciones correspondientes a los compromisos horizontales; 
III) los cambios técnicos introducidos en las anotaciones relativas a sectores específicos; y IV) los 
cambios técnicos i ntroducidos en los compromisos adicionales. Para garantizar la transparencia, 
siempre que es posible, se indican en las notas de pie de página de la presente nota las referencias 
a las páginas de la Lista de la UE. Cuando se indican las referencias a las p áginas de la Lista del 
Reino Unido, estas corresponden a la parte III (Lista del Reino Unido en que se indican los cambios 
técnicos).  
 
5. En aras de la claridad de la presentación, los compromisos o reservas que son aplicables 
exclusivamente a otros Estados miembros de la UE se han suprimido y no figuran en el proyecto de 
Lista del Reino Unido. El proyecto de Lista del Reino Unido se ha preparado con la función de control 
de cambios para mostrar con claridad cada uno de los casos en que se han introducido cam bios 
técnicos.  
 
6. La presente nota no es un anexo de la Lista del Reino Unido y se entiende sin perjuicio de la 
posición del Reino Unido con respecto a la interpretación jurídica del AGCS y de las Listas del AGCS.  
 
1  CAMBIOS TÉCNICOS GEN ERALES  
1.1  SUPRESIÓN O SUST ITUCIÓN DE REFERENCIAS OBSOLETAS O INADECUADAS  
1.1.  Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE dejará de ser adecuado que en la Lista del Reino Unido 
se haga referencia a la UE, los tratados de la UE, la legislación de la UE promulgada en virtud de 
esos tratados, o l os compromisos o reservas formulados por los Estados miembros de la UE. Ello se 
debe a que el Reino Unido ya no será parte en los tratados de la UE ni miembro de la UE y, por lo 
tanto, solo podrá contraer compromisos con respecto al trato concedido dentro su territorio. 
Asimismo, cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE, el término de comparación adecuado para evaluar 
el trato nacional serán los nacionales del Reino Unido, y no los nacionales de la UE.  
1.2.  En consecuencia:  
• las referencias a las "CE", el "Espacio Ec onómico Europeo" o los "Estados miembros" se 
han suprimido o se han sustituido por referencias al "Reino Unido" (según ha sido 
oportuno);  S/C/W/380  
 
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  • las referencias a la legislación de la UE se han suprimido; y  
• las referencias a "terceros países" se han sustituido en  general por referencias a 
"otros  Miembros de la OMC", ya que la primera de esas expresiones se utiliza en la Lista 
de la UE para establecer una distinción entre los Estados miembros de la UE y los demás 
países.  
2  CAMBIOS TÉCNICOS EN LOS COMPROMISOS HORI ZONT ALES  
2.1  PARTIDAS  
2.1. Se han introducido algunas subpartidas en los compromisos horizontales1 en las columnas 
de acceso a los mercados y trato nacional ( páginas 10 a 12), entre las que figuran las siguientes:  
 
Servicios públicos  
Entidades jurídicas  
Inversiones  
Adquisición de inmuebles  
Régimen cambiario  
Explicación : Estas subpartidas se añadieron a la Lista de la UE -25. Modifican la presentación de la 
sección de los compromisos horizontales de la Lista para organizar mejor la descripción y 
consignació n de las limitaciones correspondientes. Por consiguiente, de conformidad con los 
principios en que se basa este ejercicio, se han añadido también aquí.  
 
2.2  SERVICIOS PÚBLICOS  
2.2. Se ha añadido la siguiente frase en la nota explicativa de la reserva al acceso a los mercados 
en el modo 3 relativa a los servicios públicos2 (página 10): 
Esta limitación no se aplica a las telecomunicaciones ni a los servicios de informática y servicios 
conexos.  
Explicación : Este texto se añadió a la Lista de la UE -25, lo que limita el alcance de la reserva. Por 
consiguiente, de conformidad con los principios en que se basa este ejercicio, se ha añadido también 
en el presente documento.  
2.3  PRESENCIA COMERCIA L 
2.3. Se ha modificado la reserva al trato nacional en el modo 3 relativa a las filiales, sucursales 
y agencias  para suprimir el siguiente párrafo3 (página 10): 
Sin embargo, ello no impide que un Estado miembro pueda ext ender ese trato a las sucursales 
o agencias establecidas en otro Estado miembro por una sociedad o empresa de un tercer 
país, en lo relativo a su actividad en el territorio del primer Estado miembro, a menos que tal 
extensión esté prohibida expresamente por el derecho comunitario.  
Explicaci ón: Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE dejará de ser parte en los tratados de la UE y 
ya no será adecuado referirse al trato otorgado a las sucursales establecidas en la UE en el marco 
de la legislación de la UE.  
2.4  MOVIMIENTO DE PERSONAS FÍSICAS  
2.4. Se ha  ajustado la presentación de los compromisos del Reino Unido sobre el movimiento de 
personas físicas para reproducir la forma en que se presentan en la Lista de la UE -25. Las 
modificaciones efectuadas consisten en la introducción de subpartidas que diferen cian claramente 
                                                
1 Véanse las páginas 2 a 6 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
2 Véase la página 2 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
3 Véase la página 2 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  las tres categorías de personas físicas  abarcadas por el modo  4 y sus correspondientes 
referencias en los compromisos sectoriales:  
Traslados dentro de una misma empresa  
Visitantes de negocios  
Proveedores de servicios por contrato  
Explicación : Estas subpartidas se introdujeron para aumentar la claridad y la transparencia de la 
presentación de los compromisos en toda la Lista de la UE -25. Por consiguiente, de conformidad con 
los principios en que se basa este ejercicio, se han añadid o también aquí.  
2.5. Se ha suprimido la siguiente reserva al trato nacional en el modo 4 relativa al reconocimiento 
recíproco de títulos4 (página 1 2): 
Las Directivas de la CE sobre el reconocimiento recíproco de títulos no se aplican a los 
nacionales de te rceros países. El reconocimiento de los títulos que se necesitan para el 
ejercicio por nacionales de países no comunitarios de servicios profesionales regulados sigue 
siendo de competencia de cada Estado miembro, a menos que el derecho comunitario 
disponga  otra cosa. El derecho a ejercer actividades profesionales reguladas en un Estado 
miembro no otorga el derecho a ejercerlas en otro Estado miembro.  
Explicación : Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE dejará de ser parte en los tratados de la UE y 
ya no será adecuado hacer referencia a las prescripciones relativas al reconocimiento de diplomas 
en el marco de la legislación de la UE.  
2.6. Al incorporar a su Lista los compromisos sobre proveedores de servicios por contrato5 
relativos al acceso a los mercados en el modo 4 (páginas 1 7 y 18), el Reino Unido ha omitido las 
referencias a: a) servicios de informática y servicios conexos; b) servicios de investigación y 
desarrollo; c) servicios de enseñanza superior; d) servicios de agencias de viajes y organización de 
viajes en grupo; e) servicio s de espectáculos; f) servicios relacionados con la venta de equipo o con 
la atribución de una patente.  
Explicación : Estos sectores se han omitido en los compromisos horizontales del Reino Unido sobre 
proveedores de servicios por contrato, dado que en el R eino Unido, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en 
otros Estados miembros de la UE, el acceso a los mercados para los proveedores de servicios por 
contrato de esos sectores está sin consolidar.  
 
3  CAMBIOS TÉCNICOS EN LOS COMPROMISOS RELA TIVOS A SECTORES ESP ECÍFICO S 
Varios  
 
3.1. Se ha suprimido la siguiente nota de pie de página correspondiente a los compromisos 
relativos a sectores específicos6 en los que en la limitación en el modo 1 se indica sin consolidar* 
(páginas 3 2-33, 37, 40-41, 43, 45-46 y 48): 
No resulta viable un compromiso sobre este modo de suministro  
Explicación : Los compromisos específicos no se modifican y los derechos de los Miembros no se ven 
afectados. Este cambio técnico se introdujo en la Lista de la UE -25; por consiguiente, de conformidad 
con los principios en que se basa este ejercicio, se ha reproducido también aquí.  
 
                                                
4 Véase la página 8 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
5 Véanse las páginas 4 y 5 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.2, de 28  de julio de  1995.  
6 Véanse las páginas 46, 51, 58 -60, 81, 86, 88 y 92 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril 
de 1994.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  3.2. Las notas de pie de página7 que indican que el servicio especificado constituye únicamente 
parte de la gama total de actividades abarcada por la partida correspondiente de l a CPC (páginas 
22, 34 y 47-48) se han reemplazado por la adición, dentro de los paréntesis en los que se consigna 
el código de la CPC, de las siguientes palabras:  
parte de  
Explicación : Esta modificación técnica se introdujo en la Lista de la UE -25, y el Reino Unidos ha 
decidido aplicarla en todo el texto de la Lista para que la forma de citar los códigos parciales de la 
CPC sea coherente. Los compromisos no se modifican y los derechos de los miembros no se ven 
afectados.  
1. SERVICIOS PRESTADOS A LAS EMPRE SAS 
 
A. Servicios profesionales  
 
3.3. Se ha suprimido la siguiente exclusión (página 1 8) del compromiso relativo al asesoramiento 
jurídico sobre el derecho del país de origen y derecho internacional público8: 
(excluido el derecho comunitario)  
Explicación : Una vez que el Reino Unido abandone la UE, ya no será adecuado ni necesario excluir 
la legislación de la UE del alcance del compromiso relativo al asesoramiento jurídico sobre el derecho 
del país de origen y derecho internacional público.  
3.4. Se ha suprim ido la siguiente prescripción de la reserva al acceso a los mercados en el modo  4 
relativa a los proveedores de servicios por contrato del sector de los servicios integrados de 
ingeniería9 (página 2 1): 
Se requiere examen de las necesidades económicas  
Explicación : En la Lista de la UE -25 se suprimió la reserva que permitía al Reino Unido aplicar un 
examen de necesidades económicas a los proveedores de servicios por contrato del sector de los 
servicios integrados de ingeniería. Por consiguiente, de conformida d con los principios en que se 
basa este ejercicio, se ha suprimido también  aquí. 
3.5. Se ha aclarado la nota de pie de página correspondiente al compromiso relativo a la partida 
Otros - Servicios conexos de consultores en ciencia y tecnología10 (página 2 3), que queda 
redactada como sigue:  
El servicio de que se trata no incluye servicios conexos de consultores en ciencia y tecnología 
en la explotación de minas, etc.  
Explicación : En la nota de pie de página de la Lista de la UE -25 se añadieron las siguientes palabras: 
"servicios conexos de consultores en ciencia y tecnología". En consonancia con la CPC 8675, esta 
modificación aclara que la nota de pie de página se refiere a los servicios relacionados con las minas 
y no a la explotación de las propias minas, qu e no está comprendida en el ámbito de los servicios 
profesionales. El compromiso y los derechos de los Miembros no se ven afectados. De conformidad 
con los principios en que se basa este ejercicio, las citadas palabras se han incluido también  aquí. 
                                                
7 Véanse las páginas 23, 26, 49, 89 y 93 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
8 Véase la página 12 del documento GATS/SC/3 1, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
9 Véase la página 8 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.2, de 28 de julio de  1995.  
10 Véase la página 29 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  E. Serv icios de arrendamiento o alquiler sin operarios  
3.6. En la reserva al acceso a los mercados en el modo 2 relativa a los servicios de 
arrendamiento o alquiler de aeronaves sin tripulación11, se han sustituido las referencias a la 
"Comunidad" y sus "Estados m iembros" por referencias al Reino Unido (página 2 6). 
2) Las aeronaves utilizadas por transportistas aéreos del Reino Unido deben estar registradas 
en el Reino Unido. Pueden otorgarse exoneraciones para contratos de arrendamiento de corto 
plazo o en casos e xcepcionales.  
Explicación : No es adecuado que la Lista del Reino Unido haga referencia al suministro de servicios 
a los consumidores de la UE por el modo 2; debería referirse al suministro de servicios a los 
consumidores del Reino Unido por el modo 2. En c onsecuencia, se ha modificado la reserva para 
referirse a los "transportistas del Reino Unido".  
Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE, sus compromisos se limitarán al territorio del Reino Unido. 
Por consiguiente, se ha modificado la reserva para referirse a  las "aeronaves […] registradas en el 
Reino Unido".  
2.C SERVICIOS DE TELECOMUNICACIONES  
 
3.7. Se ha modificado la presentación de los compromisos del Reino Unido en el ámbito de los 
servicios de telecomunicaciones12 (páginas 3 4 a 36) con el fin de reflejar la redacción de la Lista de 
la UE-25. Se ha reorganizado toda la sección, pero el alcance y la esencia de los compromisos en 
vigor contraídos por el Reino Unido no varían.  
Explicación : Los compromisos del Reino Unido en la esfera de las telecomunicaciones se 
reorganizaron en la Lista de la UE -25. De conformidad con los principios en que se basa este 
ejercicio, la presentación actualizada de esos compromisos se ha reflejado  aquí. 
7. SERVICIOS FINANCIEROS  
 
3.8. Se ha suprimido la siguiente nota explicativa de  pie de página relativa a los compromisos 
contraídos en el sector de los servicios financieros13, referente a la necesidad de que las sucursales  
obtengan autorización por separado para operar en cada Estado miembro de la UE 
(página  41): 
A diferencia de las filiales extranjeras, las sucursales establecidas directamente en un Estado 
miembro por una institución financiera no comunitaria no estarán sujetas, con ciertas 
excepciones limitadas, a normas cautelares armonizadas a nivel comunitario que permiten a 
esas filiales beneficiarse de mayores facilidades para instalar nuevos establecimientos y 
suministrar servicios transfronterizos en todo el territorio de las Comunidades. Por 
consiguiente, esas sucursales reciben autorización para actuar en el territorio de un  Estado 
miembro en condiciones equivalentes a las que se aplican a las instituciones financieras 
nacionales de ese Estado miembro, y pueden estar obligadas a cumplir diversos requisitos 
cautelares como, en el caso de las operaciones bancarias y con valores , la capitalización por 
separado y otros requisitos de solvencia y de presentación y publicación de cuentas o, en el 
caso de los seguros, determinados requisitos de garantía y de depósitos, la capitalización por 
separado y la localización en el respectivo Estado miembro de los capitales que representen 
las reservas técnicas y un mínimo de una tercera parte del margen de solvencia. Los Estados 
miembros pueden aplicar las restricciones indicadas en esta lista únicamente respecto del 
establecimiento de una pre sencia comercial procedente de un tercer país o el suministro de 
servicios transfronterizos desde un tercer país; en consecuencia, no podrán aplicar tales 
restricciones, incluidas las relativas al establecimiento, a las filiales de terceros países 
instalad as en otros Estados miembros de las Comunidades, a menos que esas restricciones 
también puedan aplicarse a las sociedades o a los nacionales de otros Estados miembros de 
conformidad con el derecho comunitario.  
                                                
11 Véase la página 36 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
12 Véanse las páginas 2 a 7 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.3, de 11 de abril de  1997.  
13 Véase la página 61 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  Explicación : La nota de pie de página se refie re específicamente al funcionamiento y la legislación 
de la UE . No sería adecuado reproducir esa nota en la Lista del Reino Unido.  
3.9. En la reserva al acceso a los mercados en el modo 3 relativa a los  servicios bancarios y 
demás servicios financieros14, se han suprimido las referencias a la "Directiva sobre los OICVM" 
(página 4 2). 
Explicación : Una vez que el Reino Unido abandone la UE  no será adecuado referirse a la "Directiva 
sobre los OICVM" (aunque esta Directiva se ha incorporado a la legislación del R eino Unido). El Reino 
Unido considera que la descripción no modificada de la limitación es clara y, por tanto, de 
conformidad con lo dispuesto en los párrafos 38 y  40 de las Directrices para la consignación en listas 
de los compromisos específicos en el ma rco del  AGCS  (documento S/L/92), la Lista del Reino Unido 
no incluye referencias a la legislación.  
11. SERVICIOS DE TRANSPORTE  
F. Servicios de transporte por carretera  
3.10.  En la reserva al acceso a los mercados en el modo 3 relativa a los servicios de transporte 
por carretera - transporte de pasajeros15 (página 4 7), se han suprimido las siguientes palabras:  
"a partir de  1996". 
Explicación : Se han suprimido esas palabras en aras de la claridad, habida cuenta de que 1996 es 
una fecha ya pasada. Esto no alt era el alcance ni la esencia de los compromisos contraídos por el 
Reino Unido.  
3.11.  En el compromiso sobre el acceso a los mercados y el trato nacional en el modo 3 relativo a 
los servicios de transporte por carretera - transporte de carga16 (página 4 7), se han suprimido 
las siguientes palabras:  
3) Sin consolidar en lo que se refiere al transporte dentro de un Estado miembro por un 
transportista establecido en otro Estado miembro.  
Explicación : Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE ya no será adecuado mantene r en la Lista del 
Reino Unido una reserva relativa a las actividades de los transportistas entre los Estados miembros 
de la UE.  
4  CAMBIOS TÉCNICOS EN LOS COMPROMISOS ADIC IONALES  
SERVICIOS FINANCIEROS  
 
A. Seguros  
 
4.1. En la parte relativa a los compromisos adicionales sobre los servicios financieros se ha 
suprimido el siguiente párrafo17: 
a) Las Comunidades Europeas y sus Estados miembros constatan la estrecha cooperación 
que existe entre las autoridades de reglamentación y supervisión en materia de seguros de 
los Estados miembros y alientan sus esfuerzos para promover mejores normas de supervisión.  
Explicación : En ese párrafo se constata y se alienta la cooperación entre la UE y sus Estados 
miembros. No es adecuado incluir tal declaración en la Lista del Rei no Unido.  
                                                
14 Véase la página 74 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
15 Véase la página 93 del docum ento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
16 Véase la página 95 del documento GATS/SC/31, de 15 de abril de  1994.  
17 Véase la página 20 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1.  S/C/W/380  
 
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  4.2. En la parte relativa a los compromisos adicionales sobre los servicios financieros se ha 
suprimido el siguiente párrafo18: 
d) Las Comunidades Europeas y sus Estados miembros no escatimarán esfuerzos con 
vistas a examinar todas las cuestiones relativas al buen funcionamiento del mercado interior 
de seguros y a tomar en consideración todas las cuestiones que puedan tener incidencia en el 
mercado interior de seguros.  
Explicación : En este párrafo se prevén compromisos que son aplicables únicamente  a la Unión 
Europea y sus Estados miembros y, por tanto, no es adecuado consignarlo en la Lista del Reino 
Unido.  
 
4.3. En los párrafos de la parte relativa a los compromisos adicionales sobre los servicios 
financieros que se refieren a los seguros de vehíc ulos de motor, se han suprimido las siguientes 
palabras19: 
con arreglo a la legislación de la CE vigente al 31 de diciembre de  1997.  
Explicación : Una vez que el Reino Unido abandone la UE ya no será adecuado referirse a la legislación 
de la UE. Sin perjuici o de la legislación futura, la posición actual, según la legislación del Reino Unido, 
sigue siendo que las primas se podrán calcular teniendo en cuenta varios factores de riesgo, que en 
general no se requiere la aprobación previa de las autoridades naciona les de supervisión con 
respecto a las condiciones de la póliza y las tarifas de primas, y que en general no se requiere la 
aprobación previa de las autoridades nacionales de supervisión con respecto a los aumentos de 
primas.  
B. Otros servicios financieros  
 
4.4. En los párrafos de la parte relativa a los compromisos adicionales sobre los servicios 
financieros en los que el Reino Unido se compromete a no escatimar esfuerzos con vistas a examinar 
las solicitudes completas de licencia para llevar a cabo activid ades bancarias y servicios de inversión 
en un plazo de 12 y 6 meses, respectivamente, se han suprimido las siguientes palabras20: 
En aplicación de las Directivas pertinentes de la CE  
y 
como se define en la Directiva relativa a los servicios de inversión  
Explicación : Cuando el Reino Unido abandone la UE ya no será adecuado referirse a la legislación de 
la UE en la Lista del Reino Unido. En cualquier caso, la omisión de referencias generales a esa 
legislación está en consonancia con lo dispuesto en el párrafo 38 de las Directrices para la 
consignación en listas de los compromisos específicos en el marco del AGCS . 
 
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18 Véase la página 20 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1.  
19 Véase la página 20 d el documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1.  
20 Véanse las páginas 20 y 21 del documento GATS/SC/31/Suppl.4/Rev.1.   
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UK SCHEDULE INDICATI NG THE TECHNICAL CHA NGES  
 
UNITED KINGDOM OF GR EAT BRITAIN AND NORT HERN IRELAND – SCHED ULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS  
1. The rights and obligations arising from the GATS, including the schedule of commitments, shall have no self -executing effect and thus confer no rights 
directly to individual natural persons or juridical persons.  
 
Modes of supply:  1. Cross -borde r 2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
I. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS  
ALL SECTORS INCLUDED IN 
THIS SCHEDULE  Public Utilities  
 
3) Services considered as public utilities at a 
national or local level may be subject to public 
monopolies or to exclusive rights gra nted to private 
operators.1  
   
 Legal Entities  
 
3) None  
 Legal Entities  
 
a) Limitations on branches, agencies and 
representative offices  
3) a) Treatment accorded to subsidiaries (of third-
country  companies of another WTO Member ) formed 
in accordance with the UK law of a Member State  and 
having their registered office, central administration 
or principal place of b usiness within the Communities  
UK is not extended to branches or agencies  
established in a Member State  the UK  by a third-
country company  of another WTO Member . However, 
this does not prevent a Member State from extending 
this treatment to branches or agencies established in 
another Member State by a third -country company 
or firm, as regards their operation in the first Member 
State's territory, unless such extension is explicitly 
prohibited by Community law.   
                                                
1 Explanatory Note: Public utilities exist in sectors such as related scientific and technical consulting services, R&D service s on social sciences and humanities, technical 
testing and analysis services, environmental services, health services, transport services and services auxiliary to all mode s of transport. Exclusive rights on such services are often 
granted to private operators, for instance op erators with concessions from public authorities, subject to specific service obligations. Given that public utilities often also exist at the 
sub-central level, detailed and exhaustive sector -specific scheduling is not practical. This limitation does not apply to telecommunications and to computer and related services.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
  b)   Limitations on Subsidiaries  
3)  
b) Treatment less favourable may be  
accorded to subsidiaries (of third-country  companies  
of another WTO Member ) formed in accordance with 
the UK law of a Member State  which have only their 
registered office in the territory of the 
Communities UK, unless it ca n be shown that they 
possess an effective and continuous link with the 
economy  of the UK of one of the Member States . 
 
b) c) Limitations additional to those under 
a) and b)  
 
3) None  
 
4) None  
  
  Subsidies : 
 
3) None, other than for branches established in a 
Member State  the UK  by a non-Community company  
of another WTO Member . Eligibility for subsidies from 
the Communities or Member States may be limited 
to juridical persons established within the territory of 
a Member State the UK  or a particular geographical  
sub-division thereof. Unbound for subsidies for 
research and development. The supply of a service, 
or its subsidisation, within the public sector is not in 
breach of this commitment.  
 
4) To the extent that any subsidies are made 
available to natural perso ns, their availability may be 
limited to nationals of a Member State of the 
Communities the UK .  
  
 Investments  
 
3) None  
 
Real Estate Purchases  
 
None Investments  
 
3) None  
 
Real Estate Purchases  
 
None   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 Exchange Regime  
 
1), 2) None  
 Exchange Regime  
 
4) None  
 Categories of natural persons covered under 
Mode 4  
 
4) Unbound except for measures concerning the 
entry into and temporary stay2 within a Member 
State the UK , without requiring compliance with an 
economic needs test,3 of the following categories of 
natural persons providing services:  
 Categories of natural persons covered under 
Mode 4  
 
4) Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories of natural persons referred to in the 
Market Access column. as indicated below.   
 (i) Intra -corporate transfers (ICT):  
 
i)  Access is subject to the following conditions.  
 
- the natural person concerned must work within a 
juridical person other than a non profit making 
organisation, established in the territory of a WTO 
member and have been employed by it or have 
been a partner in it (other than as a majority 
shareholder) for at least the year immediately 
preceding the date of admission.  
- the natural person is temporarily transferred in 
the context of the provision of a service through 
commercial presence in the territory of the UK.  
- the natural person is temporarily transferred in 
the context of the provision of a service through 
commercial presence in the UK.  
- the juridical person concerned must have their 
principal place of business in the territory of a WTO 
Member other than the UK and the transfer must 
be to an establishment (subsidiary, branch, office) 
of that juridical person, effectively providing like 
services in the territory of the UK.  
 (i) Intra -corporate transfers (ICT) : 
 
Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.  
 
EC Directives on mutual recognition of diplomas do 
not apply to nationals of third countries. Recognition 
of the diplomas which are required in or der to 
practice regulated professional services by non -
Community nationals remains within the competence 
of each Member State, unless Community law 
provides otherwise. The right to practice a regulated 
professional service in one Member State does not 
grant the right to practise in another Member State.  
  
                                                
2 All other requirements of the UK’s laws and regulations regarding entry, stay, work and social security measures shall contin ue to apply, including regulations concerning 
period of stay, m inimum wages as well as collective wage agreements.  The duration of “temporary stay” is defined by the Member States and, where they exist, Community laws 
and regulations regarding entry, stay and work. The precise duration can vary according to the differ ent categories of natural persons mentioned in this schedule.  
3 All other requirements of Community and Member States’ laws and regulations regarding entry, stay, work and social security m easures shall continue to apply including 
regulations concerning period of stay, minimum wages as well as collective wage agreemen ts.  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 - the natural person concerned must belong to one 
of the following categories:  
the temporary presence, as intra -corporate 
transferee,4 of natural persons in the following 
categories, provided that the service supplier is a 
juridical person and that the persons concerned 
have been employed by it or have been partners in 
it (other than as majority shareholders), for at least 
the year immed iately preceding such movement:  
   
 a) Persons working in a senior position within a 
juridical person, who primarily direct the 
management of the establishment, receiving 
general supervision or direction principally 
from the board of directors or stockholders of 
the business or their equivalent, including:  
 
- directing the establishment or a 
department or sub -division of the 
establishment;  
- supervising and controlling the work of 
other supervisory, professional or 
managerial employees;  
- having the auth ority personally to hire 
and fire or recommend hiring, firing or 
other personnel actions.  
   
                                                
4 An "intra -corporate transferee" is defined as a natural person working within a juridical person, other than a non -profit making organisation, established in the territory of 
an WTO Member, and being temporarily transferred in the context of the prov ision of a service through commercial presence in the territory of a Community Member State ; the 
juridical persons concerned must have their principle place of business in the territory of a WTO Member other than the UK an d the transfer must be to an estab lishment (office, 
branch or subsidiary) of that juridical person, effectively providing like services in the territory of a Member State to whi ch the EEC Treaty applies.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 b) Persons working within a juridical person who 
possess uncommon knowledge essential to 
the establishment's service, research 
equipment, techniques or management. In 
assessing such knowledge, account will be 
taken not only of knowledge specific to the 
establishment, but also of whether the person 
has a high level of qualification referring to a 
type of work or trade requiring specific 
technical knowledge, including membership of 
an accredited profession.  
 
An economic needs test will not be required.  
The duration of "temporary stay" of intra -corporate 
transfers is defined by the UK laws and regulations 
regarding entry, stay and work.  
   
 (ii) the temporary presence of natural persons 
in the following categories: Business Visitors 
(BV):  
Entry and temporary stay of the following 
categories is permitted without application of an 
economic needs test:  
 (ii) Business Visitors (BV):  
Unbound except for measures concerning the  
categories of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.  
  
 a) Service sellers:  Persons not residing in the 
territory of a Member State to which the EC 
treaties apply the UK , who are representatives 
of a service supplier and are seeking 
temporary entry for the purpose of 
negotiating for the sale of services or entering 
into agreements to sell services for that 
service provider, where those representatives 
will not be engaged in making direct sales to 
the general public or in suppl ying services 
themselves.  
    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 b) Establishment of commercial presence:  
Persons working in a senior position, as 
defined in i) a) above, within a juridical 
person, who are responsible for the setting 
up, in a Member State the UK , of a commercial 
presence of a service provider of a nother WTO  
Member when:  
 
- the representatives are not engaged in 
making direct sale s or supplying services; 
and 
- the service provider has its principal place 
of business in the territory of a nother  
WTO Member other than the 
Communities and their Member States 
and has no other representative, office, 
branch or subsidiary in that Member 
State the UK . 
   
 The duration of "temporary stay" of business 
visitors is defined by the UK laws and regulations 
regarding entr y, stay and work.  
   
 (iii) Contractual service suppliers (CSS):  
- Unbound except for measures concerning 
the entry into and temporary stay within 
a Member State of the following category 
of natural persons without requiring 
compliance with an economic needs test 
except where indicated for a specific 
subsector.  
 (iii) Contractual service suppliers (CSS):  
Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 Access is subject to the following conditions5: 
 
- The natural persons are engaged in the 
supply of a service on a temporary basis as 
employees of a juridical person, who has no 
commercial presence in any Member State of 
the European Community the UK . 
- The juridical person has obt ained a service 
contract, for a period not exceeding 3 months 
from a final consumer in the Member State 
concerned UK, through an open tendering 
procedure or any other procedure which 
guarantees the bona fide character of the 
contract (e.g. advertisement of the availability 
of the contract) where this requirement exists 
or is introduced, pursuant to the laws, 
regulations and requirements of the European 
Community or its Member States UK.   
 - The natural person seeking access should be 
offering such services as  an employee of the 
juridical person supplying the service for at 
least the year immediately preceding such 
movement.  
- The temporary entry and stay within the 
Member State concerned UK shall be for a 
period of not more than three months in any 
12 months pe riod or for the duration of the 
contract, whatever is less.  
- The natural person must possess the 
necessary academic qualifications and 
professional experience as specified for the 
sector or activity concerned in the Member 
State where the service is supplied UK. 
- An economic needs test will not be required 
except where otherwise indicated for a 
specific sub -sector. -   
                                                
5 All other requirements of European Community and Member States’ laws , regulations an d requirements regarding entry, stay and work shall continue to apply. The service 
contract shall comply with the laws, regulations and requirements of the European Community and the Member State where the service contract is executed.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 - The commitment relates only to the service 
activity which is the subject of the contract; it 
does not confer entitlement to exercise the 
professional title of the Member State 
concerned UK. 
- The number of the persons covered by the 
service contract shall not  be larger than 
necessary to fulfil the contract, as it may be 
decided by the laws, regulations and 
requirements of the European Community and 
the Member State where the service is 
supplied UK.    
 - The service contract has to be obtained in one 
of the activities mentioned below , subject to a 
specific commitment being undertaken by the 
UK in the sector specific part  and anysubject 
to the  additional conditions mentioned 
therein in the subsector  by the Member State 
concerned:    
 - Legal services  
- Accounting s ervices  
- Taxation advisory services  
- Architectural services, urban 
planning and landscape architectural 
services  
- Engineering services, integrated 
engineering services  
- Computer and related services  
- Research and development services  
- Advertising  
- Management consulting services  
- Services related to management 
consulting  
- Technical testing and analysis 
services  
- Translation services  
- Construction services, site 
investigation work  
- Higher education services  
- Travel agencies and tour operator 
services  
- Entertainment ser vices    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 - Services related to the sale of 
equipment or to the assignment of a 
patent    
II. SECTOR -SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS  
a) BUSINESS SERVICES  
A.    Professional Services  
 
a) Legal advice home country 
law and public international 
law (excluding EC law)   
  
 
 
1) None 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section.   
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
b) Accounting services 
(CPC 86212 other than 
"auditing services", 86213, 
86219)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section . 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and  subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' experience in the sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
b) Auditing services6 
(CPC 86211 and 86212 
other than accounting 
services)  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Bookkeeping services 
(CPC 86220)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
c) Taxation Advisory Services 
(CPC 863: excluding 
representation in 
Court/tribunals)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section .  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and  subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' experience in the sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
                                                
6 Given the fact tha t commercial presence is required to exercise any auditing activity, the cross -border mode is unbound. Only established statutory auditors can be 
approved by the national professional bodies. Approval is a necessary  pre-condition to exercising this activity.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
d) Architectural Services 
(CPC 8671)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section .  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
e) Engineering services 
(CPC 8672)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section . 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
f) Integrated Engineering 
Services (CPC 8673)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section . 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
g) Urban Planning and 
Landscape Architectural 
Services (CPC 8674)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section . 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
h) Medical, Dental  and 
Midwives Services 
(CPC 9312, part of 
CPC 93191)  
 
  
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Establishment for doctors under the National 
Health Service is subject to medical manpower 
planning.  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
 
 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
i) Veterinary services 
(CPC 932) 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Access through partnership or natural persons 
only. 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
j)  Services provided by 
Nurses, Physiotherapists 
and Paramedical Personnel 
(part of CPC 931917). 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
7 Indicates that the service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities covered by the CPC concordance.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Supply of 
pharmaceutical goods 
to the general public 
(pharmacists)  
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
k) Other  
Related Scientific Technical 
Consulting Services8 
(CPC 8675)  
 1) Unbound for exploration services  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound for exploration services  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Computer and Related 
Services  
 
a) Consultancy Services 
related to the Installation of 
Computer Hardware 
(CPC 841) 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
b) Software Implementation 
Services (CPC 842)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as  indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
                                                
8 The service involved excludes related scientific and technical consulting services  on operation of mines, etc.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 CSS 
Unbound  
 CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
c) Data Processing Services 
(CPC 843)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
d) Data Base Services 
(CPC 844) 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
Maintenance and 
Repair (CPC 845)  
 
 1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
e) Other Computer Services 
(CPC 849)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 CSS 
Unbound  
 CSS 
Unbound   
C. Research and 
Development Services  
 
b) R&D Services on Social 
Sciences and Humanities 
(CPC 852) 
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
D. Real Estate Services9 
a) Involving Own or Leased 
Property (CPC 821).  
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) On a Fee or Contract Basis 
(e.g. Property Evaluation, 
Estate Management, etc.) 
(CPC 822)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
9 The Service involved relates to the profession of real estate agents and does not affect any rights and/or restrictions on na tural and juridical persons purchasing real 
estate.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
E. Rental/Leasing Services 
Without Operators  
 
a) Relating to ships 
(CPC 83103)  
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Relating to Aircraft 
(CPC 83104)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) Aircraft used by Community UK air carriers have 
to be registered in the Member State licensing the 
air carrier or elsewhere in the Community UK. 
Waivers can be granted for short term lease 
contracts or under exceptional circumstances.  
3) To be registered in the aircraft re gister of these 
Member States the UK , the aircraft must be owned 
either by natural persons meeting the specific 
nationality criteria or by juridical persons meeting 
specific requirements regarding ownership of 
capital and control (including nationality of 
directors).  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
 
 
 
 
3) None  
 
 
 
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
c) Relating to Other Transport 
Equipment (CPC 83101, 
83102, 83105)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
d) Relating to Other Machinery 
and Equipment 
(CPC 83106, 83107, 
83108, 83109)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Rental Services with 
Operators   
Rental of Vessels with 
Crew (CPC 7213  and, 
7223)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Rental of Commercial Road 
Vehicles with Operator 
(CPC 7124)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
F. Other Business Services  
 
a) Advertising (CPC 871)  
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Relevant qualifications and three years' 
professional experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
  
b) Market Research and 
Opinion Polling (CPC 864)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
c) Management Consulting 
Services (CPC 865)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Unbound except for managers and senior 
consultants where: Uuniversity degree and three 
years' professional experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
d) Services Related to 
Management Consulting 
(CPC 866)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Unbound ex cept for managers and senior 
consultants where: uUniversity degree and three 
years' professional experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound exc ept as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
e) Technical Testing and 
Analysis Services 
(CPC 8676)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree or technical qualifications 
demonstrating knowledge and three years' 
professional experience  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
  
f) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to 
Agriculture, Hunting and 
Forestry  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
g) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to Fishing  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
h) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to Mining  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
k) Placement and Supply 
Services of Personnel  
 
Executive Search 
Services (CPC 87201)  
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Placement Services 
(CPC 87202)  
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Supply Services of 
Office Support 
Personnel (CPC 87203)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Security Services 
(CPC 87302, 87303, 
87304, 87305)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
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) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
o)  Building -Cleaning Services 
(CPC 874)  
 1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
p) Photographic Services 
(CPC 875 excluding retail)  
 
 1) Unbound * except for aerial photography: Nnone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * except for aerial photography: nNone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not fea sible  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
q) Packaging Services 
(CPC 876) 
 1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
 Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
r) Printing and publishing 
(CPC 88442)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
s) Convention Services  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
t) Other  
 
Translation Services 
(CPC 87905)  
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Relevant qualifications and three years' 
professional experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizont al 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
Interior Design 
Services ( part of  
CPC 87907)10 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
2.C Telecommunications 
services11 
 
All services consisting of the 
transmission and reception of 
signals by any electromagnetic 1) None  
2) None  
3) None15 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 The European Communities 
and their Member States UK 
undertake s the obligations 
contained in the reference 
paper attached in Annex I 
hereto  for the following 
services: additional 
                                                
10 Indicates that the service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities covered by the CPC concordance.  
11 Footnote for clarification purposes: The UK reserves its right to  maintain public participation in certain telecommunication operators in the future. This is not a market 
access limitation.  
15 Footnote for clarification purposes: Some EC Member States maintain public participation in certain telecommunication operato rs. EC Member States reserve their rights 
to maintain such public participation in the future. This is not a market access limitation.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
means12, excluding 
broadcasting13. 
 
These services do not cover the 
economic activity consisting of 
the provision of content which 
require telecommunications 
services for their transport.  
 
Telecommunications services 
are the transport of electro -
magnetic signals – sound, data 
image and any combinations 
thereof, excluding 
broadcasting14. Therefore, 
commitments in this schedule 
do not cover the economic 
activity consisting of content 
provision which require 
telecommunications services for 
its transport. The provision of 
that content, transported via a 
telecommunications service, is 
subject to the specific 
commitments undertaken by 
the European Communities and 
their Member States in other 
relevant sectors.  
 
 CSS 
Unbound  CSS 
Unbound  commitments as contained in 
the attachment, all parts of 
which are equally binding.  
a) Voice telephone 
services (CPC7521)  
b) Packet -switched 
data transmission 
services (part of 
CPC 7523)  
c) C) Circuit switched 
data transmission 
services (part of 
CPC 7523)  
d) Telex services (part 
of CPC 7523)  
e) Telegraph services 
(CPC 7522)  
f) Facsimile services 
(part of CPC 7521 
+ part of CPC 
7523)  
g) Private leased 
circuit services 
(part of CPC 7522 
+ part of CPC 
7523)  
o) Mobile and 
personal 
communications 
services and 
systems  
                                                
12 Sub-sectors 2.C.h) to 2.C.m) of the Services Sectoral Classification List contained in MTN,GNS/W/120 (value -added services) and S ub-sectors 2.C.a) to  
2.C.g) of that List are included here. Sub -sector 2.C.o) of that List is also included here to the extent that it falls under this definition. For the purpose of this  
Schedule, sub -sector 2.C.n) of that List ('On -line information and/o r data processing (including transaction processing)' ) is a computer and related service and, as  
such, is reflected in this Schedule of Commitments under 1.B.  
13 Broadcasting is defined as the uninterrupted chain of transmission required for the distributi on of tv and radio programme signals to the general public, but does not cover 
contribution links between operators.  
14 Broadcasting is defined as the uninterrupted chain of transmission required for the distribution of tv and radio programme si gnals to the  general public, but does not cover 
contribution links between operators.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
All sub -sectors     
Domestic and international  
Domestic and international 
services provided using any 
network technology, on a 
facilities based or resale basis, 
for public and non -public use, in 
the following market segments 
(these correspond to the 
following CPC numbers: 7521, 
7522, 7523, 7524, 7525, 7526 
and 7529, broadcasting is 
excluded):  
 
a.Voice  telephone services  
b.Packet switched data 
transmission services  
c.Circuit -switched data 
transmissions services  
d.Telex services  
e.Telegraph services  
f.Facsimile services  
g.Leased circuit 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.   
h.Value -added services* 
Electronic Mail, Voice Mail, 
On-line Information and Data 
Base Retrieval, EDI, Code and 
Protocol Conversion  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.   
o. Other services  
Mobile and personal 
communication services and 
systems  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.  
  
                                                
* Excludes voice telephone, packet and circuit switched data services, telegraph, telex, mobile radio telephone, paging and sate llite services.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
3. CONSTRUCTION AND 
RELATED ENGINEERING 
SERVICES (CPC 511, 512, 
513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 
518) 1) Unbound* except for 5111 and 5114: Nnone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS: for CPC 5111 only:  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations: for Site investigation work (CPC 5111) 
where: as indicated in the horiz ontal section under 
(4) (iii) and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is 
required.  
 1) Unbound * except for CPC 5111 and 5114: nNone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES15 
 
A. Commission Agents' 
Services  (CPC 621)  
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible.  
15 Excluding trade in arms, chemical products, explosives and precious metals.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Wholesale Trade Services  
(CPC 622)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Retailing Services  
(CPC 631, 632, 633, 
61112, 6113, 6121 
excluding 63211)  
 1) Unbound except for mail order: Nnone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound except for mail order: Nnone 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
D. Franchising  (CPC 8929)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
5. PRIVATELY FUNDED 
EDUCATION SERVICES  
 
A. Primary Education Services  
(CPC 921)  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Secondary Education 
Services  (CPC 922)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Higher Education Services  
(CPC 923)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
D. Adult Education Services  
(CPC 924)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES  
 
A. Sewage Disposal Services  
(CPC 9401)  
 
  
 
1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Refuse Disposal Services  
(CPC 9402)  
 
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Sanitation and Similar 
Services  (CPC 9403)  
 
 1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Cleaning Services of 
Exhaust Gases (CPC 9404)  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible.  
  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Nature and Landscape 
Protection Services 
(CPC 9406)  
 
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
D. Other Environmental 
Protection Services  
(CPC 9409)  1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
7. FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR16 
 
1. The Communities and their Member States UK undertake s commitments on Financial Services in accordance with the provisions of the "Understanding on 
Commitments in Financial Services" (the Understanding).  
2. These commitments are subject to the limitations on market access and national treatment in the "all sect ors" section of this schedule and to those relating to the 
subsectors listed below.  
3. The market access commitments in respect of modes (1) and (2) apply only to the transactions indicated in paragraphs B.3 and B.4 of the market access section of 
the Understanding respectively.  
4. Notwithstanding note 1. above, the market access and national treatment commitments in respect of mode (4) on financial servi ces are those in the "all sectors" 
section of this schedule.  
5. The admission to the market of new financ ial services or products may be subject to the existence of, and consistency with, a regulatory framework aimed at 
achieving the objectives indicated in Article 2(a) of the Financial Services Annex.  
6. As a general rule and in a non -discriminatory manner, fin ancial institutions incorporated in a Member State of the Community the UK  must adopt a specific legal form.  
 
                                                
16 Unlike foreign subsidiaries, branches established directly in a Member State by a non -Community  financial institution are not, with certain limited exceptions, subject to 
prudential regulations harmonised at Community level which enable such subsidiaries to benefit from enhanced facilities to se t up new establishments and to provide cross -border 
services throughout the Community. Therefore, such branches receive an authorisation to operate in the territory of a Member State under conditions equivalent t o those applied 
to domestic financial institutions of that Member State, and may be required to sat isfy a number of specific prudential requirements such as, in the case of banking and securities, 
separate capitalisation and other solvency requirements and reporting and publication of accounts requirements or, in the cas e of insurance, specific guarante e and deposit 
requirements, a separate capitalisation, and the localisation in the Member State concerned of the assets representing the te chnical reserves and at least one third of the solvency 
margin. Member States may apply the restrictions indicated in  this schedule only with regard to the direct establishment from a third country of a commercial presence or to the 
provision of cross -border services from a third country; consequently, a Member State may not apply these restrictions, including those conc erning establishment, to third -country  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
A. Insurance and Insurance -
Related Services  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 The European Communities 
and their Member States UK 
undertake s additional 
commitments as contained in 
the attachment Annex II to 
this schedule.  
 
 
B. Banking and Other 
Financial Services  
(excluding insurance)  1) None  
2) Sterling issues, including privately led issues, 
can be lead managed only by a firm established in 
the European Economic Area UK. 
3)  
 
- The establishment of a specialised 
management company is required to perform 
the activities of management of unit trusts 
and investment companies (Article 6 and 13 
of UCITS Directive, 85/611/ECC). . 
 
- Only firms having their registered office in the 
Communit y UK can act as depositories of the 
assets of investment funds (Articles 8.1 and 
15.1 of the UCITS Directive, 85/611/ECC). . 
 
- Inter-dealer brokers, which are a category of 
financial institutions dealing in Government 
debt, are required to be established in the 
European Economic Area UK and separately 
capitalised.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
 
 
3) None  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 The European Communities 
and their Member States UK 
undertake s additional 
commitments as contained in 
the attachment Annex II to 
this schedule.  
 
 
                                                
subsidiaries established in other Member States of the Community, unless these restrictions can also be applied to companies or nationals of other Member States in conformity 
with Community law.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
8. HEALTH SERVICES AND 
SOCIAL SERVICES  
 
A. Hospital Services  
(CPC 9311)  
 
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Social Services  
 
Only Cconvalescent 
and Rest Houses, Old 
People's Homes   
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL 
RELATED SERVICES  
 
A. Hotels, Restaurants and 
Catering  (CPC 641, 642, 
643) (excluding catering in 
transport services sector)  
 
  
 
 
1) Unbound* except for catering: none  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound * except for catering: none  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this  mode of supply is not feasible .  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Travel Agencies and Tour 
Operators Services  
(including tour managers) 
(CPC 7471)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section  
  
C. Tourist Guides Services  
(CPC 7472)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
10. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL 
AND SPORTING SERVICES 
(other than Audio -visual 
Services)  
 
A. Entertainment Services  
(including Theatre, Live 
Bands and Circus Services) 
(CPC 9619)  
 
  
 
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal section  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. News and Press Agency 
Services  (CPC 962)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Sporting and Other 
Recreational Services other 
than Gambling and Betting 
Services  (CPC 9641, 96491)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
11. TRANSPORT SERVICES  
 
A. Air Transport Services   
 
a) Maintenance and Repair of 
Aircraft and parts thereof  
 
  
 
 
 
1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
 
1) Unbound * 
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible .  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Sales and Marketing  
 
 
 
 1) None  
 
2) None  
3) None  
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) For distribution through CRS of air transport 
services provided by CRS parent carrier: unbound.  
2) None  
3) For distribution through CRS of air transport 
services provided by CRS parent carrier: unbound.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Computer Reservations 
System  
 
 1) None  
 
 
2) None  
3) None  
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) For obligations of parent or participating carriers 
in respect of a CRS controlled by an air carrier of one 
or more third other countries: unbound.  
2) None  
3) For obligations of parent or participating carriers 
in respect of a CRS controlled by an air c arrier of one 
or more third other countries: unbound.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Rail Transport Services  
 
a) Maintenance and Repair of 
Rail Transport Equipment 
(CPC 8868)  
  
 
1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
C. Road Transport Services  
 
a) Passenger Transportation 
(CPC 71213, 7122)  
  
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) For transport within a Member State the UK  
(cabotage), by a carrier established outside that 
Member State the UK : unbound except for rental of 
non-scheduled services of buses with operator ( part 
of 71223 )17 where no limitation will apply  as from 
1996. 
For 71221 (taxi services): economic needs test18 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Unbound for transport within a Member State the 
UK (cabotage), by a carrier established outside that 
Member State the UK . 
 
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Freight Transportation 
(CPC 7123)  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) For transport within a Member State by a carrier 
established in another Member State: 
unbound None. 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) For transport within a Member State by a carrier 
established in another Member State: unbound. None 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
d) Maintenance and Repair of 
Road Transport Equipment 
(CPC 6112)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
17 Indicates that the service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities by the CPC concor dance.  
18 Needs test based on the number of service suppliers in the local geographic area.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
D. Services auxiliary to all 
modes of transport  
 
a) Storage and Warehouse 
Services (CPC 742) (other 
than in ports)  
  
 
 
1) Unbound* 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound * 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Freight Transport 
Agency/Freight  Forwarding 
Services (CPC 748)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Pre-Shipment Inspection 
(part of CPC 749)19 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
* A commitment on this mode of supply is not feasible.  
19 Indicates that a service specified constitutes only a part of the total range of activities covered by the CPC concordance.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
E. Other Transport Services  
 
Land Transport 
(Provision of Combined 
Transport Service)  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None, without any prejudice to the limitations 
affecting any given mode of transport.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None, without any prejudice to the limitations 
affecting any given mode of transport.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
_______________  
 
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  ANNEX I  
 
REFERENCE PAPER  ADDITIONAL COMMITMEN T BY THE EUROPEAN CO MMUNITIES  
 AND THEIR MEMBER ST ATES  
 
 
SCOPE:  
 
The following are definitions and principles on the regulatory framework for the basic 
telecommunications services underpinning the market access commitments by the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. European Communities and their Member States.  
 
DEFINITIONS:  
 
User mean s service consumer s and service suppliers.  
 
Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and service 
that 
 
a) are ex clusively 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 releva nt 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 for the purpose of preventing suppliers who, alone or 
together, are a major supplier from engaging in or continuing anti -competitive practices.  
 
1.2. Safeguards : 
 
The anti -competitive practices referred to above shall include i n 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 facilit ies 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 u sers of one supplier to communicate with users of another 
supplier and to access services provided by another supplier.  
 
2.2. Interconnection to be ensured : 
 
Within the limits of permitted market access, interconnection with a major supplier will be ensure d 
at any technically feasible point in the network. Such interconnection is provided1: 
                                                
1 Suppliers of services or networks not generally available to the public, such as closed user groups, 
have guaranteed rights to connect with the public telecommunications transport network or services on terms, S/C/W/380  
 
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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 affiliates2; 
b) in a timely fashion, on terms, conditions (including technical standards and specifications) 
and cost -oriented rates that are transpare nt, 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 applica ble 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 intercon nection 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 independen t 
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 establ ished 
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 licences.  
 
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, and not accountable to, any supplier of basic 
telecommunications services. The decisions of and the procedures used by regulators shall be 
impartial wit h respect to all market participants.  
 
                                                
conditions and rates which are non -discriminatory, transparent and cost -oriented. Such terms, conditions and 
rates may, however, vary from the terms, conditions and rates applicable to interconnection between public 
telecommunications networks or services.  
2 Different terms, conditi ons and rates may be set in the Communities UK for operators in different 
market segments, on the basis of non -discriminatory and transparent national licensing provisions, where such 
differences can be objectively justified because these services are not c onsidered "like services".  S/C/W/380  
 
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  6. ALLOCATION AND USE OF SCARCE RESOURCES:  
 
Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers and 
rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and  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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  ANNEX II  
 
ADDITIONAL COMMITMEN TS BY THE EUROPEAN COMM UNITIES  
AND THEIR MEMBER STA TES CONCERNING FINANCIAL  SERVICES  
 
 
 
INSURANCE  
 
a) The European Communities and their Member States note the close co -operation among the 
insurance regulatory and supervisory authorities of the Member States and encourage their efforts 
to promote improved supervisory standards.  
 
ab) Member States The UK  will make their its best endeavours to consider within 6 months complete 
applications for licenses to conduct direct insurance underwriting business, through the 
establishment in a Member State the UK  of a subsidiary in accordance with the legislation of that 
Member State the U K, by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother  third country WTO Member . 
In cases where such applications are refused, the Member State UK authority will make its best 
endeavours to notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusa l of the 
application.  
 
bc) The supervisory authorities of the Member States UK will make their best endeavours to respond 
without undue delay to requests for information by applicants on the status of complete applications 
for licences to conduct direct ins urance underwriting business, through the establishment in a 
Member State the UK  of a subsidiary in accordance with the legislation of that Member State the UK  
by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother  third country WTO Member . 
 
d) The European Commun ities and their Member States will make their best endeavours to examine 
any questions pertaining to the smooth operation of the internal market in insurance, and consider 
any issues that might have an impact on the internal market in insurance.  
 
de) The European Communities and their Member States UK notes that, as regards motor insurance, 
under EC law as in force on 31 December 1997, and without prejudice to future legislation, premiums 
may be calculated taking several risk factors into account.  
 
ef) The European Communities and their Member States UK notes that, under EC law, as in force on 
31 December 1997, and without prejudice to future legislation, the prior approval by national 
supervisory authorities of policy conditions and scales of premiums that a n insurance undertaking 
intends to use is generally not required.  
 
fg) The European Communities and their Member States UK notes that, under EC law, as in force on 
31 December  1997, and without prejudice to future legislation, the prior approval by national  
supervisory authorities of increases in premium rates i sn generally not required.  
 
OTHER FINANCIAL SERVICES  
 
a) In application of the relevant EC Directives, Member States The UK  will make their its best 
endeavours to consider within 12 months complete app lications for licenses to conduct banking 
activities, through the establishment in a Member State the UK  of a subsidiary in accordance with 
the legislation of that Member State the UK , by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother  third 
country WTO Member . In cases where such applications are refused, the Member State UK will make 
its best endeavours to notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusal of the 
application.  
 
b) Member States The UK  will make their its best endeavours to r espond without undue delay to 
requests for information by applicants on the status of complete applications for licenses to conduct 
banking activities, through the establishment in a Member State the UK  of a subsidiary in accordance 
with the legislation of  that Member State the UK , by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother  
third country WTO Member . 
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  c) In application of the relevant EC Directives, Member States The UK  will make their its best 
endeavours to consider within 6 months complete applications for licenses to conduct investment 
services in the securities field, as defined in the Investment Services Directive, through the 
establishment in a Member State the UK  of a subsidiary in acc ordance with the legislation of that 
Member State the UK , by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother  third country WTO Member . 
In cases where such applications are refused, the Member State UK will make its best endeavours to 
notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusal of the application.  
 
d) Member States The UK  will make their its best endeavours to respond without undue delay to 
requests for information by applicants on the status of complete applications for licenses to conduct 
investment services in the securities area, through the establishment in a Member State the UK  of a 
subsidiary in accordance with the legislation of that Member State the UK , by an undertaking 
governed by the laws of a nother  third country WTO Member . 
 
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CLEAN VERS ION OF THE UK SCHEDU LE 
UNITED KINGDOM OF GR EAT BRITAIN AND NORT HERN IRELAND – SCHED ULE OF SPECIFIC COMM ITMENTS  
1. The rights and obligations from the GATS, including the schedule of commitments, shall have no self -executing effect and thus confer no rights  directly to 
individual natural persons or juridical persons.  
 
Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
I. HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS  
ALL SECTORS INCLUDED IN THIS 
SCHEDULE  Public Utilities  
 
3) Services considered as public utilities at a 
national or local level may be subject to public 
monopolies or to exclusive rights granted to private 
operators.1  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 Legal Entities  
 
3) None  
 Legal Entities  
 
a) Limitations on branches, agencies and 
representative offices  
 
3) Treatment accorded to subsidiaries (of companies 
of another WTO Member) formed in accordance with 
UK law and having their registered office, central 
administration or principal place of business within 
the UK is not extended to branches or agencies  
established in the UK by a company of another WTO 
Member.   
                                                
1 Explanatory Note: Public utilities exist in sectors such as related scientific and technical consulting services, R&D service s on social sciences and humanities, technical 
testing and analysis services, environmental services, health services, transport services and services auxiliary to all modes of transport. Exclusive rights on such services are o ften 
granted to private operators, for instance operators with concessions from public authorities, subject to specific service ob ligations. Given that public utilities often also exist at the 
sub-central level, detailed and exhaustive sector -specific scheduling is not practical. This limitation does not apply to telecommunications and to computer and related servic es.  
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
  b) Limitations on Subsidiaries  
 
3) Treatment less favourable may be  
accorded to subsidiaries (of companies of another 
WTO Member) formed in accordance with UK law 
which have only their registered office in the UK, 
unless it can be shown that they possess an effective 
and continuous link with the economy of the UK.  
  
  c) Limitations additional to those under a) 
and b)  
 
3) None  
 
4) None  
  
  Subsidies  
 
3) None, other than for branches established in the 
UK by a company of another WTO Member. Eligibility 
for subsidies may be limited to juridical persons 
established within the territory of the UK or a 
particular geographical sub -division thereof. 
Unbound for subsidies for research and 
development. The supply of a service, or its 
subsidisation, within the public sector is not in 
breach of this commitment.  
4) To the extent that any subsidie s are made 
available to natural persons, their availability may 
be limited to nationals of the UK.  
  
 Investments  
 
3) None  
 
Real Estate Purchases  
 
None 
 
Exchange Regime  
 
1), 2) None  Investments  
 
3) None  
 
Real Estate Purchases  
 
None 
 
Exchange Regime  
 
4) None   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 Categories of natural persons covered under 
Mode 4  
 
4) Unbound except for measures concerning the 
entry into and temporary stay2 within the UK, of the 
following categories of natural persons providing 
services:  
 Categories of natural persons covered under 
Mode 4  
 
4) Unbound except as indicated below.   
 (i) Intra -corporate transfers (ICT):  
 
Access is subject to the following conditions.  
- the natural person concerned must work within a 
juridical person other than a non profit making 
organisation, established in the territory of a WTO 
member and have been employed by it or have been 
a partner in it (other than as a majority shareholder) 
for at least the year immediately preceding the date 
of admission.  
- the natural person is temporari ly transferred in the 
context of the provision of a service through 
commercial presence in the territory of the UK.  
- the natural person is temporarily transferred in the 
context of the provision of a service through 
commercial presence in the UK.  
- the juridical person concerned must have their 
principal place of business in the territory of a WTO 
Member other than the UK and the transfer must be 
to an establishment (subsidiary, branch, office) of 
that juridical person, effectively providing like 
service s in the territory of the UK.  (i) Intra -corporate transfers (ICT) : 
 
Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.  
  
                                                
2 All other req uirements of the UK’s laws and regulations regarding entry, stay, work and social security measures shall continue to apply, including regulations concerning 
period of stay, minimum wages as well as collective wage agreements.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 - the natural person concerned must belong to one 
of the  following categories:  
   
 a) Persons working in a senior position within a 
juridical person, who primarily direct the 
management of the establishment, receiving 
general supervision or direction principally 
from the board of directors or stockholders of 
the business or their equivalent, including:  
 
- directing the establishment or a 
department or sub -division of the 
establishment;  
- supervising and controlling the work of 
other supervisory, professional or 
managerial employees;  
- having the authority personally to hire and 
fire or recommend hiring, firing or other 
personnel actions.  
   
 b) Persons working within a juridical person who 
possess uncommon knowledge essential to the 
establishment's service, research equipment, 
techniques or management. In assessing such 
knowledge, account will be taken not only of 
knowledge specific to the establishment, but 
also of whether the person has a high level of 
qualification referring to a type of work or 
trade requiring specific technical knowledge, 
including membership of an a ccredited 
profession.  
   
 An economic needs test will not be required.  
 
The duration of "temporary stay" of intra -corporate 
transfers is defined by the UK laws and regulations 
regarding entry, stay and work.     
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 (ii) Business Visitors (BV):  
Entry and temporary stay of the following categories 
is permitted without application of an economic 
needs test:  
 
a) Service sellers:  Persons not residing in the 
territory of the UK, who are representatives of 
a service supplier and are seeking temporary 
entry for the purpose of negotiating for the 
sale of services or entering into agreements to 
sell services for that service provider, where 
those representatives will not be engaged in 
making direct sales to the general public or in 
supplying services themselves.  
 
b) Establishment of commercial presence : 
Persons working in a senior position, as 
defined in i) a) above, within a juridical 
person, who are responsible for the setting up, 
in the UK, of a commercial presence of a 
service provider of another WTO Member 
when:  
 
- the representatives are not engaged in 
making direct sales or supplying services; 
and 
- the service provider has its principal  place 
of business in the territory of another 
WTO Member and has no other 
representative, office, branch or 
subsidiary in the UK.  
 
The duration of "temporary stay " of business visitors 
is defined by the UK laws and regulations regarding 
entry, stay and wo rk. (ii) Business visitors (BV):  
Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 (iii) Contractual service suppliers (CSS):  
 
Access is subject to the following conditions:  
 
- The natural persons are engaged in the supply 
of a service on a temporary basis as 
employees of a juridical person, who has no 
commercial presence in the UK.  (iii) Contractual service suppliers (CSS):  
 
Unbound except for measures concerning the 
categories  of natural persons referred to and 
committed in the Market Access column.   
 - The juridical person has obtained a service 
contract, for a period not exceeding 3 months 
from a final consumer in the UK, through an 
open tendering procedure or any other 
procedure which guarantees the bona fide 
character of the contract (e.g. advertisement 
of the availability of the contract) where this 
requirement exists or is introduced, pursuant 
to the laws, regulations and requirements of 
the UK.    
 - The natural person  seeking access should be 
offering such services as an employee of the 
juridical person supplying the service for at 
least the year immediately preceding such 
movement.    
 - The temporary entry and stay within the UK 
shall be for a period of not more than three 
months in any 12 months period or for the 
duration of the contract, whatever is less.    
 - The natural person must possess the 
necessary academic qualifications and 
professional experience as specified for the 
sector or activity concerned in the UK.    
 - An economic needs test will not be required 
except where otherwise indicated for a specific 
sub-sector.    
 - The commitment relates only to the service 
activity which is the subject of the contract; it 
does not confer entitlement to exercise the 
professional title of the UK.     
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
 - The number of the persons covered by the 
service contract shall not be larger than 
necessary to fulfil the contract, as it may be 
decided by the laws, regulations and 
requirements of the UK.    
 - The service contract has to be obtained in one 
of the activities mentioned below, subject to a 
specific commitment being undertaken by the 
UK in the sector specific part and any 
additional conditions mentioned therein:  
 
- Legal services  
- Accounting services  
- Taxation advisory services  
- Architectural services, urban planning 
and landscape architectural services  
- Engineering services, integrated 
engineering services  
- Advertising  
- Management consulting services  
- Services related to management 
consulting  
- Technical testing and analysis 
services  
- Translation services  
- Construction services, site 
investigation work  
    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
II. SECTOR -SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS  
1. BUSINESS SERVICES  
A. Professional Services  
 
a) Legal advice home country 
law and public international 
law  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
 
 
 
  
b) Accounting services 
(CPC 86212 other than 
"auditing services ", 86213, 
86219)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and  subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' experience in the sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
c) Auditing services3 
(CPC 86211 and 86212 other 
than accounting services)  
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated  in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
d) Bookkeeping services 
(CPC 86220)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
e) Taxation Advisory Services 
(CPC 863: excluding 
representation in 
Court/tribunals)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' experience in the sect or. 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
                                                
3 Given the fact that commer cial presence is required to exercise any auditing activity, the cross -border mode is unbound. Only established statutory auditors can be 
approved by the national professional bodies. Approval is a necessary pre -condition to exercising this activity.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
f) Architectural Services 
(CPC 8671)  
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and  subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
g) Engineering services 
(CPC 8672)  
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
h) Integrated Engineering 
Services (CPC 8673)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section. 
 
 
  
i) Urban Planning and 
Landscape Architectural 
Services (CPC 8674)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
j) Medical, Dental and Midwives 
Services (CPC  9312, part of 
CPC 93191)  
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Establishment for doctors under the National 
Health Service is subject to medical manpower 
planning.  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
 
 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
k) Veterinary services (CPC  932) 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Access through partnership or natural persons 
only. 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
 
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
l) Services provided by Nurses, 
Physiotherapists and 
Paramedical Personnel (part 
of CPC 93191).  
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Supply of pharmaceutical 
goods to the general 
public (pharmacists)  
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
m) Other  
Related Scientific Technical 
Consulting Services4 
(CPC 8675)  
 
 
 
 1) Unbound for exploration services  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound for exploration services  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Computer and Related 
Services  
 
a) Consultancy Services related 
to the Installation of  
Computer Hardware (CPC 
841) 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
                                                
4 The service involved excludes related scientific and technical consulting services on operation of mines, etc.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
b) Software Implementation 
Services (CPC 842)  
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
c) Data Processing Services 
(CPC 843)  
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
d) Data Base Services (CPC  844) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
Maintenance and Repair 
(CPC 845)  
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
e) Other Computer Services 
(CPC 849)  1) None 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound   
C. Research and Development 
Services  
 
R&D Services on Social Sciences 
and Humanities (CPC 852)  
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
D. Real Estate Services5 
 
a) Involving Own or Leased 
Property (CPC 821)  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
5 The Service involved relates to the profession of real estate agents and does not affect any rights and/or restrictions on na tural and juridical p ersons purchasing real 
estate.   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
b) On a Fee or Contract Basis 
(e.g. Property Evaluation, 
Estate Management, etc.) 
(CPC 822)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as  indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV   
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
E. Rental/Leasing Services 
Without Operators  
 
a) Relating to ships (CPC  83103)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Relating to Aircraft 
(CPC 83104)  
 
 
 
 
 1) None 
2) Aircraft used by UK air carriers have to be 
registered in the UK. Waivers can be granted for 
short term lease contracts or under exceptional 
circumstances.  
3) To be registered in the aircraft register of the UK, 
the aircraft must be owned either b y natural persons 
meeting the specific nationality criteria or by 
juridical persons meeting specific requirements 
regarding ownership of capital and control (including 
nationality of directors).  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
 
 
 
3) None  
 
 
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
c) Relating to Other Transport 
Equipment (CPC 83101, 
83102, 83105)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
d) Relating to Other Machinery 
and Equipment (CPC  83106, 
83107, 83108, 83109)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Rental Services with 
Operators   
Rental of Vessels with 
Crew (CPC 7213 and 
7223)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Rental of Commercial 
Road Vehicles with 
Operator (CPC 7124)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 72 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
F. Other Business Services  
 
a) Advertising (CPC 871)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Relevant qualifications and three years ' professional 
experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
b) Market Research and Opinion 
Polling (CPC 864)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 73 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
c) Management Consulting 
Services (CPC 865)  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Unbound except for managers and senior 
consultants where: university degree and three 
years ' professional experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
 
  
d) Services Related to 
Management Consulting 
(CPC 866) 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Unbound except for managers and senior 
consultants where: university degree and three 
years ' professional  experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
   
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- 74 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
e) Technical Testing and 
Analysis Services (CPC  8676)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree or technical qualifications 
demonstrating knowledge and three years ' 
professional experience  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except  as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
  
f) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to 
Agriculture, Hunting and 
Forestry  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
g) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to Fishing  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 75 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
h) Advisory and Consulting 
Services Relating to Mining  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
k) Placement and Supply 
Services of Personnel  
Executive Search 
Services (CPC 87201)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Placement Services (CPC 
87202)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Supply Services of Office 
Support Personnel (CPC 
87203)  
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 76 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
Security Services 
(CPC 87302, 87303, 
87304, 87305)  
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
l) 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) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
m) Building -Cleaning Services 
(CPC 874)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
n) Photographic Services 
(CPC 875 excluding retail)  
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound except for aerial photography: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound except for aerial photography: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 77 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
o) Packaging Services 
(CPC 876) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
 Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
p) Printing and publishing 
(CPC 88442)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
q) Convention Services  
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 78 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
r) Other  
 
Translation Services (CPC 
87905)  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
Relevant qualifications and three years ' professional 
experience.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Interior Design Services 
(part of CPC 87907)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound    
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- 79 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
2.C TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
SERVICES6 
 
All services consisting of the 
transmission and reception of 
signals by any electromagnetic 
means7, excluding broadcasting8. 
 
These services do not cover the 
economic activity consisting of the 
provision of content which requir e 
telecommunications services for 
their transport.  
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  The UK undertakes the 
obligations contained in the 
reference paper attached in 
Annex I  for the following 
services:  
a) Voice telephone 
services (CPC7521)  
b) Packet -switched 
data transmission 
services (part of 
CPC 7523)  
c) Circuit switched 
data transmission 
services (part of 
CPC 7523)  
d) Telex services (part 
of CPC 7523)  
e) Telegraph services 
(CPC 7522)  
f) Facsimile services 
(part of CPC 7521 
+ part of CPC 
7523)  
g) Private leased 
circuit services 
(part of CPC 7522 
+ part of CPC 
7523)  
o) Mobile and personal      
communica tions 
services and 
systems  
                                                
6 Footnote for clarification purposes: The UK reserves its right to maintain public participation in certain telecommunication operators in the future. This is not a market 
access limitation.  
7 Sub-sectors 2.C.h) to 2.C.m) of the Services Sectoral Classification List contained in MTN,GNS/W/120 (value -added services) and Sub -sectors 2.C.a) to 2.C.g) of that List 
are included here. Sub -sector 2.C.o) of that List is also included here to the extent that it falls under this defi nition. For the purpose of this Schedule, sub -sector 2.C.n) of that List 
('On-line information and/or data processing (including transaction processing)' ) is a computer and related service and, as such,  is reflected in this Schedule of Commitments 
under 1 .B. 
8 Broadcasting is defined as the uninterrupted chain of transmission required for the distribution of tv and radio programme si gnals to the general public, but does not cover 
contribution links between operators.   
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- 80 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
3. CONSTRUCTION AND 
RELATED ENGINEERING 
SERVICES (CPC 511, 512, 513, 
514, 515, 516, 517, 518)  1) Unbound except for 5111 and 5114: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS: for CPC 5111 only:  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section and subject to the following specific 
limitations:  
 
University degree and professional qualifications 
and three years ' professional experience in the 
sector.  
 
Compliance with an economic needs test is required.  
 1) Unbound except for CPC 5111 and 5114: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in  the horizontal 
section.  
  
4. DISTRIBUTION SERVICES9 
 
A. Commission Agents ' Services  
(CPC 621)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
9 Excluding trade in arms, chemical pro ducts, explosives and precious metals.   
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- 81 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Wholesale Trade Services  
(CPC 622)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Retailing Services  (CPC 631, 
632, 633, 61112, 6113, 6121 
excluding 63211)  
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound except for mail order: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound except for mail order: None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
D. Franchising  (CPC 8929)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as  indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
5. PRIVATELY FUNDED 
EDUCATION SERVICES  
 
A. Primary Education Services  
(CPC 921)  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 82 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Secondary Education Services  
(CPC 922)  
 1) None 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Higher Education Services  
(CPC 923)  
 1) None 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
  
D. Adult Education Services  (CPC 
924) 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
6. ENVIRONMENTAL 
SERVICES  
 
A. Sewage Disposal Services  
(CPC 9401)  
 
 
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 83 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Refuse Disposal Services  
(CPC 9402)  
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Sanitation and Similar 
Services  (CPC 9403)  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Cleaning Services of Exhaust 
Gases (CPC 9404)  
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Nature and Landscape 
Protection Services 
(CPC 9406)  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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- 84 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
D. Other Environmental 
Protection Services  
(CPC 9409)  1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
7. FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR  
 
1. The UK undertakes commitments on Financial Services in accordance with the provisions of the "Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services " (the 
Understanding).  
2. These commitments are subject to the limitations on market access and national treatment  in the "all sectors " section of this schedule and to those relating to the 
subsectors listed below.  
3. The market access commitments in respect of modes (1) and (2) apply only to the transactions indicated in paragraphs B.3 and B.4 of the market access secti on of the 
Understanding respectively.  
4. Notwithstanding note 1. above, the market access and national treatment commitments in respect of mode (4) on financial servi ces are those in the "all sectors " section 
of this schedule.  
5. The admission to the market of new financial services or products may be subject to the existence of, and consistency with, a regulatory framework aimed at achieving 
the objectives indicated in Article 2(a) of the Financial Services Annex.  
6. As a general rule and in a non -discriminatory m anner, financial institutions incorporated in the UK must adopt a specific legal form.  
 
A. Insurance and Insurance -
Related Services  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None 
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 The UK undertakes additional 
commitments as contained in 
Annex  II to this schedule.  
 
 
 
 
  
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- 85 - Modes of supply:  1. Cross -border  2. Consumption abroad  3. Commercial presence  4. Presence of natural persons  
Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Banking and Other Financial 
Services  (excluding 
insurance)  1) None  
2) Sterling issues, including privately led issues, can 
be lead managed only by a firm established in the 
UK. 
3)  
 
- The establishment of a specialised 
management company is required to perform 
the activities of management of unit trusts and 
investment companie s. 
 
- Only firms having their registered office in the 
UK can act as depositories of the assets of 
investment funds.  
 
- Inter-dealer brokers, which are a category of 
financial institutions dealing in Government 
debt, are required to be established in the UK 
and separately capitalised.  
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
 
 
3) None  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 The UK undertakes additional 
commitments as contained in 
Annex  II to this schedule.  
 
 
8. HEALTH SERVICES AND 
SOCIAL SERVICES  
 
A. Hospital Services  (CPC 9311)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Social Services  
 
Only convalescent and Rest 
Houses, Old People 's Homes  1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as  indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL 
RELATED SERVICES  
 
A. Hotels, Restaurants and 
Catering  (CPC 641, 642, 643) 
(excluding catering in 
transport services sector)  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) Unbound except for catering: none  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound except for catering: none  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
B. Travel Agencies and Tour 
Operators Services  (including 
tour managers) (CPC 7471)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
  
C. Tourist Guides Services  (CPC 
7472)  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound    
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
10. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL 
AND SPORTING SERVICES 
(other than Audio -visual  
Services)  
 
A. Entertainment Services  
(including Theatre, Live 
Bands and Circus Services) 
(CPC 9619)  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section  
  
B. News and Press Agency 
Services  (CPC 962)  
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Sporting and Other 
Recreational Services other 
than Gambling and Betting 
Services  (CPC 9641, 96491)  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
11. TRANSPORT SERVICES  
 
A. Air Transport Services   
 
a) Maintenance and Repair of 
Aircraft and parts thereof  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Sales and Marketing  
 1) None  
 
2) None  
3) None  
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) For distribution through CRS of air transport 
services provided by CRS parent carrier: unbound.  
2) None  
3) For distribution through CRS of air transport 
services provided by CRS parent carrier: unbound.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Computer Reservations 
System  
 
 1) None  
 
 
2) None  
3) None 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) For obligations of parent or participating carriers 
in respect of a CRS controlled by an air carrier of one 
or more other countries: unbound.  
2) None  
3) For obligations of parent or participating carriers 
in respect of a CRS controlled by an air carrier of one 
or more other countries: unbound.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
B. Rail Transport Services  
 
a) Maintenance and Repair of 
Rail Transport Equipment 
(CPC 8868)  
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the  horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
C. Road Transport Services  
 
a) Passenger Transportation 
(CPC 71213, 7122)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) For transport within the UK (cabotage), by a 
carrier established outside the UK: unbound except 
for rental of non-scheduled services of buses with 
operator ( part of 71223) where no limitation will 
apply.  
For 71221 (taxi services): economic needs test10 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) Unbound  for transport within the UK (cabotage), 
by a carrier established outside the UK.  
 
 
 
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Freight Transportation 
(CPC 7123)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
                                                
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
d) Maintenance and Repair of 
Road Transport Equipment 
(CPC 6112)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None 
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
D. Services auxiliary to all 
modes of transport  
 
a) Storage and Warehouse 
Services (CPC 742) (other 
than in ports)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
b) Freight Transport 
Agency/Freight Forwarding 
Services (CPC 748)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
Pre-Shipment Inspection 
(part of CPC 749)  
 
 
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
 1) None  
2) None  
3) None  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
   
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Sector or Sub -sector  Limitations on Market Access  Limitations on National Treatment  Additional Commitments  
E. Other Transport Services  
 
Land Transport (Provision 
of Combined Transport 
Service)  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None, without any prejudice to the limitations 
affecting any given mode of transport.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
1) Unbound  
2) None  
3) None, without any prejudice to the limitations 
affecting any given mode of transport.  
4) ICT and BV  
Unbound ex cept as indicated in the horizontal 
section.  
 
CSS 
Unbound  
  
 
 
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  ANNEX I  
 
REFERENCE PAPER  
 
 
SCOPE:  
 
The following are definitions and principles on the regulatory framework for the basic 
telecommunications services underpinning the market access commitments by the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  
 
DEFINITIONS:  
 
User means service consumers and service suppliers.  
 
Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and 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 for the purpose of preventing suppliers who, alone or 
together, are a major supplier from engaging 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 competit ors 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. INTERCONN ECTION:  
 
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 ano ther supplier.  
 
2.2. Interconnection to be ensured : 
 
Within the limits of permitted market access, interconnection with a major supplier will be ensured 
at any technically feasible point in the network. Such interconnection is provided1: 
                                                
1 Suppliers of services or networks not generally available to the public, such as closed user groups, have 
guaranteed rights to connect with the public telecommunications transport network or services on terms, 
conditions and rates which are non -discrimina tory, transparent and cost -oriented. Such terms, conditions and S/C/W/380  
 
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a) under non -discrim inatory 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 affiliates2; 
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 nee d 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 interconne ction 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 dis putes 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 licences.  
 
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, and 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.  
 
                                                
rates may, however, vary from the terms, conditions and rates applicable to interconnection between public 
telecommunications networks or services.  
2 Different terms, conditions and rates may be set in the UK for operators in different market segments, 
on the basis of non -discriminatory and transparent national licensing provisions, where such differences can be 
objectively justified because these serv ices are not considered "like services".  S/C/W/380  
 
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  6. ALLOCATION AND USE OF SCARCE RESOURCES:  
 
Any procedures for the allocation and use of scarce resources, including frequencies, numbers and 
rights of way, will be carried out in an objective, timely, transparent and non -discriminatory manner. 
The current state of allocated frequency bands will be made publicly a vailable, but detailed 
identification of frequencies allocated for specific government uses is not required.  
 
 
 
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  ANNEX II  
 
ADDITIONAL COMMITMEN TS CONCERNING FINANC IAL SERVICES  
 
 
INSURANCE  
 
a) The UK will make its best endeavours to consider within 6 months complete applications for 
licenses to conduct direct insurance underwriting business, through the establishment in the UK of 
a subsidiary in accordance with the legislation of the UK, by a n undertaking governed by the laws of 
another WTO Member. In cases where such applications are refused, the UK authority will make its 
best endeavours to notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusal of the 
application.  
 
b) The supervisory authorities of the UK will make their best endeavours to respond without undue 
delay to requests for information by applicants on the status of complete applications for licences to 
conduct direct insurance underwriting business, through the es tablishment in the UK of a subsidiary 
in accordance with the legislation of the UK by an undertaking governed by the laws of another WTO 
Member.  
 
c) The UK notes that, as regards motor insurance, and without prejudice to future legislation, 
premiums may be  calculated taking several risk factors into account.  
 
d) The UK notes that, without prejudice to future legislation, the prior approval by national 
supervisory authorities of policy conditions and scales of premiums that an insurance undertaking 
intends t o use is generally not required.  
 
e) The UK notes that, without prejudice to future legislation, the prior approval by national 
supervisory authorities of increases in premium rates is generally not required.  
 
OTHER FINANCIAL SERVICES  
 
a) The UK will make its best endeavours to consider within 12 months complete applications for 
licenses to conduct banking activities, through the establishment in the UK of a subsidiary in 
accordance with the legislation of the UK, by an undertaking governed by the laws of a nother WTO 
Member. In cases where such applications are refused, the UK will make its best endeavours to 
notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusal of the application.  
 
b) The UK will make its best endeavours to respond without  undue delay to requests for information 
by applicants on the status of complete applications for licenses to conduct banking activities, 
through the establishment in the UK of a subsidiary in accordance with the legislation of the UK, by 
an undertaking go verned by the laws of another WTO Member.  
 
c) The UK will make its best endeavours to consider within 6 months complete applications for 
licenses to conduct investment services in the securities field, through the establishment in the UK 
of a subsidiary in  accordance with the legislation of the UK, by an undertaking governed by the laws 
of another WTO Member. In cases where such applications are refused, the UK will make its best 
endeavours to notify the undertaking in question and give the reasons for the refusal of the 
application.  
 
d) The UK will make its best endeavours to respond without undue delay to requests for information 
by applicants on the status of complete applications for licenses to conduct investment services in 
the securities area, through  the establishment in the UK of a subsidiary in accordance with the 
legislation of the UK, by an undertaking governed by the laws of another WTO Member.  
 
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