. /. RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  S/C/W/273/Suppl.1 
18 December 2006 
 (06-6049) 
Council for Trade in Services  Original:   English 
  
 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES  
AND ITS MEMBER STATES  
 
CERTIFICATION
 
 
Draft consolidated GATS Schedule  
 
Supplement  
  The following communication, dated 15 December 2006, from th e delegation of the European 
Communities and its Member States, is being circul ated to the Members of the Council for Trade in 
Services.  
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  With reference to document S/C/W/273 of  9 October 2006 (hereafter: “the certification 
document”) and to the context of the certification procedure initiated under such document, following 
certain bilateral cont acts and discussions and in the spirit of the Procedures for the certification of 
rectifications or improvements to schedules of specific commitments (S/L/84 of 18 April 2000), the 
European Communities and its Member States ha ve decided not to pursue a change of a purely 
technical character concerning intra-corporate transfers (ICT) from non-profit making organisations, 
notwithstanding the fact that no formal objection to that change has been notified to the Secretariat 
pursuant to paragraph 2 of th e above-mentioned Procedures. 
 Accordingly, the text included under the heading “ (i) Intra-corporate transfers (ICT) ” on page 31 
of the certification document, which reads as: 
 
“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 ha ve been employed by it (for AT, 
BE, CY, DE, DK, ES, FR, FI, EL, IT, IE, LU, MT, NL, PT, SE, SI, UK: or have been a partner in it 
(other than as a majority shareholder)) for at le ast the year  immediately preceding the date of 
admission (the date of app lication in the case of EE and LT) (three years in the case of SI). In IT, the 
natural person must be working within a juridical person constituted as a SPA (joint stock company) 
or a SRL (capital stock company with limited responsibility).” 
 Should read as:   
“the natural person concerned  must work within a juridical person (for  AT, BE,  CY, DE, DK,  
EE, EL, ES,  FI, FR, IE, IT,  LT,  LU,  LV, MT,  NL,  PT, SI, UK:  other than a non-profit making 
organisation) , established in the territory of a WTO Memb er and have been employed by it (for 
AT, BE,  CY,  DE, DK, ES, FR, FI, EL, IT, IE, LU,  MT,  NL, PT, SE, SI, UK: or have been a 
partner in it (other than as a majority shareholde r)) for at least the year  immediately preceding the 
date of admission (the date of application in the case of EE and LT) (three years in the case of SI). 
In IT, the natural person must be working within a juridical person constituted as a SPA (joint 
stock company) or a SRL (capital stock company with limited responsibility).” S/C/W/273/Suppl.1 
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  Similarly, in the clean version of the schedule (i ncluded for ease of refere nce in the certification 
document), the text included under the heading “ (i) Intra-corporate transfers (ICT) ” on page 323 of 
the certification document, which reads as:  
“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 ha ve been employed by it (for AT, 
BE, CY , DE, DK, ES, FR, FI, EL, IT, IE, LU, MT , NL, PT, SE, SI, UK: or have been a partner in it 
(other than as a majority shareholder)) for at le ast the year  immediately preceding the date of 
admission (the date of app lication in the case of EE and LT) (three  years in the case of SI). In IT, the 
natural person must be working within a juridical person constituted as a SPA (joint stock company) 
or a SRL (capital stock company with limited responsibility).” 
 Should read as:  
“the natural person concerned  must work with in a juridical person (for AT, BE, CY, DE, DK, 
EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PT, SI, UK: other than a non-profit making 
organisation), established in the territory of a WTO Member and have been employed by it (for AT, BE, CY, DE, DK, ES, FR, FI, EL, IT, IE, LU, MT, NL, PT, SE, SI, UK: or have been a partner in it (other than as a majority shareholde r)) for at least the year  immediately preceding the 
date of admission (the date of application in the case of EE and LT) (three years in the case of SI). In IT, the natural person must be working within a juridical person constituted as a SPA (joint 
stock company) or a SRL (capital stock company with limited responsibility).” 
 
 
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