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from Part I - Appellate Body Reports
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents (outline)
- Contents
- Foreword to the 1995–2013 edition
- List of Abbreviations for Parts I and II
- Part I Appellate Body Reports
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- PART II Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU
- Annexes
- Abbreviations used in the Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments and in the Indexes
- Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments by Article
- Subject Index
- Subject Index by Case (Appellate Body Reports)
- Subject Index by Case (Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU)
Summary
GATS
G.1.1 Article I: Scope of application – Measures affecting trade in services. See also GATT 1994, Relationship between the GATT 1994 and the GATS (G.2.2)
G.1.1.1 EC – Bananas III, para. 220
(WT/DS27/AB/R)
…we note that Article I:1 of the GATS provides that “[t]his Agreement applies to measures by Members affecting trade in services”. In our view, the use of the term “affecting” reflects the intent of the drafters to give a broad reach to the GATS. The ordinary meaning of the word “affecting” implies a measure that has “an effect on”, which indicates a broad scope of application. This interpretation is further reinforced by the conclusions of previous panels that the term “affecting” in the context of Article III of the GATT is wider in scope than such terms as “regulating” or “governing”. We also note that Article I:3(b) of the GATS provides that “‘services’ includes any service in any sector except services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority” (emphasis added), and that Article XXVIII(b) of the GATS provides that the “‘supply of a service’ includes the production, distribution, marketing, sale and delivery of a service”. There is nothing at all in these provisions to suggest a limited scope of application for the GATS.….
G.1.1.2 EC – Bananas III, para. 221
(WT/DS27/AB/R)
… the GATS applies to the supply of services. It provides, inter alia, for both MFN treatment and national treatment for services and service suppliers. Given the respective scope of application of the two agreements, they may or may not overlap, depending on the nature of the measures at issue. Certain measures could be found to fall exclusively within the scope of the GATT 1994, when they affect trade in goods as goods. Certain measures could be found to fall exclusively within the scope of the GATS, when they affect the supply of services as services.
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- WTO Appellate Body Repertory of Reports and Awards1995–2013, pp. 478 - 546Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014