 
 No. _______________ WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  S/SECRET/2 
8 January 2004 
 (04-0047) 
Trade in Services Original:   English 
  
 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES  
AND ITS MEMBER STATES 
AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA 
 
Agreement under Paragraph 4 of the Procedur es for the Implementation of Article XXI 
 
of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (S/L/80)  
   The following communication, dated 16 December 2003, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegations of the European Communities and its Member States and the Republic of Korea. 
 
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 1. The following communication from the European Communities and its Member States and 
the Republic of Korea to the Council for Trade in  Services is circulated in accordance with 
paragraph 4 of the Procedures for the Implementation of Ar ticle XXI of the General Agreement on 
Trade in Services (GATS) (S/L/80), adopted by the Council for Trade in Services on 19 July 1999. 
2. On 9 April 2003 the European Communiti es and its Member States submitted a 
Communication pursuant to Article V of the GATS (circulated as document S/C/N/231, dated 
10 July 2003), whereby they notified the intention to modify or withdraw the specific commitments 
included in the list attached to the communication, pursuant to Article V:5 and in accordance with the 
terms of Article XXI:1(b).  Following the submis sion of that communication, the Republic of Korea 
submitted a claim of interest pursuant to Article XXI:2(a) of the GATS (S/L/132, dated 4 August 2003). 
3. According to the Procedures for the Implemen tation of Article XXI of the GATS (S/L/80), 
the period for negotiations, which should expire thr ee months after the last date when a claim of 
interest could have been made, may be extended by mutual agreement. 
4. The European Communities and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of 
Korea, of the other part, hereby notify that they  have mutually agreed to extend the period for 
negotiations mentioned a bove until 1 June 2004. 
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