...General Agreement on Trade in Services recognizes in its preamble the right of countries to regulate the supply of services within their territories in order to meet national policy objectives as well as the growing necessity to liberalize trade in services as a means of promoting growth for...

...overall balance of rights and obligations, while giving due respect to national policy objectives". • "...the right of members to regulate, and to introduce...territories in order to meet national policy objectives". These elements of GATS objectives are particularly important where prior notification of regulation...

...Libéraliser sans avoir l'air d'y toucher pubblicato su "Le monde diplomatique" nel luglio 2000. "[...] the right of members to regulate, and to introduce...territories in order to meet national policy objectives." 59 Riunione del Consiglio dei servizi, Ginevra, 14 ottobre 1998: "Members drew attention to the variety...

...to the key development safeguards enshrined in the preamble to the GATS agreement. This acknowledges 'the right of Members (...) to regulate, and to introduce new regulations, on the supply of services ... in order to meet national policy objectives /and/ the particular need of developing countries to...

...employment" in their preambles. According to the fourth paragraph of the preamble of GATS, members recognize the "right of Members to regulate, and to introduce...territories in order to meet national policy objectives". The particular need of developing countries to exercise this right is also recognized, given existing...

...development of developing countries" (GATS Preamble, para. 2). The GATS also explicitly recognizes the rights of members to "regulate, and to introduce new regulations,...territories in order to meet national policy objectives." It also underlines that, "given asymmetries existing with respect to the degree of development of services...

...September 2002. 7. We reaffirm the right of Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services to regulate, and to introduce new regulations on, the supply of services. 8. We reaffirm our declaration made at the Singapore Ministerial Conference regarding internationally...

...specific commitments under the agreement. That notwithstanding, the GATS explicitly recognizes the rights of Members to regulate and to introduce new regulations...on the supply of services within their territories to meet national policy objectives. The GATS has come under attack for undermining national sovereignty...

...governments to regulate. In the WTO, the explicit reaffirmation of 'the right of Members under the [GATS] to regulate, and to introduce new regulations on, the supply of services' signals that some members feel that there is a significant likelihood that this will actually not be...

...consumers and the protection of public health and safety. The Preamble to the GATS explicitly recognises: the right of Members to regulate, and to introduce...territories in order to meet national policy objectives. It is important to stress that the objective of the GATS is not the deregulation of services. This...