WORLD TRADE S/L/20
30April 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-1750)
Trade inServices
FOURTH PROTOCOL TOTHE
GENERAL AGREEMENT ONTRADE INSERVICES
Members oftheWorld Trade Organization (hereinafter referred toasthe"WTO") whose
Schedules ofSpecific Commitments andListsofExemptions fromArticle IIoftheGeneral Agreement
onTrade inServices concerning basic telecommunications areannexed tothisProtocol (hereinafter
referred toas"Members concerned"),
Having carried outnegotiations under theterms oftheMinisterial Decision onNegotiations
onBasic Telecommunications adopted atMarrakesh on15April 1994,
Having regard totheAnnex onNegotiations onBasic Telecommunications,
Agree asfollows:
1. Upon theentry intoforce ofthisProtocol, aSchedule ofSpecific Commitments andaList
ofExemptions fromArticle IIconcerning basic telecommunications annexed tothisProtocol relating
toaMember shall, inaccordance withtheterms specified therein, supplement ormodify theSchedule
ofSpecific Commitments andtheListofArticle IIExemptions ofthatMember.
2. ThisProtocolshallbeopenforacceptance,bysignatureorotherwise,bytheMembersconcerned
until30November 1997.
3. TheProtocol shallenter intoforce on1January 1998 provided ithasbeenaccepted byall
Members concerned. Ifby1December 1997 theProtocol hasnotbeenaccepted byallMembers
concerned, those Members which haveaccepted itbythatdatemaydecide, prior to1January 1998,
onitsentry intoforce.
4. ThisProtocol shallbedeposited withtheDirector-General oftheWTO. TheDirector-General
oftheWTO shallpromptly furnish toeachMember oftheWTO acertified copyofthisProtocol and
notifications ofacceptances thereof.
5. ThisProtocol shallberegistered inaccordance withtheprovisions ofArticle 102oftheCharter
oftheUnited Nations.
Done atGeneva this[---dayofmonth] onethousand ninehundred andninety-seven, inasingle
copy intheEnglish, French andSpanish languages, eachtextbeing authentic, except asotherwise
provided forinrespect oftheSchedules annexed hereto.