RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONS/CSS/M/4/Corr.1∗
5 October 2000
(00-4077)
Council for Trade in Services
Special Session
REPORT OF THE MEETING HELD ON 13 AND 14 JULY 2000
Note by the Secretariat
Corrigendum
The delegation of the Dominican Republic has requested that paragraph 89 of document
S/CSS/M/4, be replaced by the following text:
"89. The representative of the Dominican Republic said that the use of clusters was a
negotiating issue.  Their tourism proposal used a cluster concept which was clearly defined as
a domain of application of new regulatory disciplines, which included pro-competitive
disciplines.  The definition of the tourism cluster proposed in their paper was based on an
agreement on Tourism Satellite Accounts reached at a conference held in Nice in June 1999,and comprised sectors characteristic of and related to tourism.  Several months afterwards, on
1 March 2000 the UN Statistical Commission in March 2000 adopted a revised definition of
the Tourism Satellite Account incorporating only the sectors characteristic to tourism.  Since
the tourism proposal had been circulated in the WTO in October 1999, it was necessary to
update the appendix so that the definition of the cluster of tourism industries matched the
revised definition of the Tourism Satellite Account.  A revised version of their proposal could
incorporate this update in the future.  He said that the discussion on clusters had to distinguishbetween the application of clusters in schedule s of specific commitments, on the one hand and
in new disciplines, on the other.  In both cases it was indispensable to arrive at objective
criteria for their definition."
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