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WORLD TRADE S/NGNP/8
28July1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2239)
Negotiating Group onMovement ofNatural Persons
NOTE ONTHE MEETING OF21JULY 1995
TheNegotiating Group onMovement ofNatural Persons helditseighth meeting under the
Chairmanship ofAmbassador Bautista ofthePhilippines. Theagenda forthemeeting wascontained
inAirgram WTO/AIR/132.
Under thefirstagenda item, Current positions withrespect toDraft Final Schedules, the
ChairpersonsaidthatsincethelastmeetingoftheGroupconditionalimprovedoffershadbeencirculated
byCanada andtheEuropean Community anditsMember States. Thisbrought tosixthenumber of
improved schedules orwritten intentions which hadbeensubmitted onaconditional basis, theother
fourbeing those ofAustralia, India, Norway andSwitzerland. Inpresenting their offers, the
representatives oftheEuropean Community andCanada saidthattheirdelegations wereprepared to
maintain theirimproved offers provided thattheadditional commitments indicated bytheirtrading
partners would alsobeconfirmed. TheAustralian representative saidthatthemaintenance ofits
improved offerdepended onadequate offers being made inrelated areas. While welcoming thetwo
improved offers thathadbeentabled, anumber ofdelegations expressed thehopethatimprovements
from other trading partners could stillbeforthcoming.
Regarding thesecond agenda item, Procedural Issues forModification andEntry intoForce
oftheSchedules, participants concluded theirdiscussions ontheproposals forthetextoftheThird
Protocol totheGATS aswellastherelated Decision foradopting theProtocol. Both texts were
subsequently adopted bytheCouncil forTrade inServices anddistributed asdocuments S/L/12 and
S/L/10 respectively.
Following detailed discussion ofaproposal byIndia fortheestablishment ofaCommittee on
Movement ofPersons tomonitor theimplementation ofspecific commitments regarding natural persons,
theGroup agreed topropose totheCouncil thatitshould givesympathetic consideration tothefollowing
proposal: thattheCouncil forTrade inServices atitsnextmeeting should decide ontheestablishment
ofaCommittee onSpecific Commitments which would, interalia,oversee theimplementation of
commitments onthemovement ofnatural persons; thecommittee would alsoexamine thetechnical
accuracy andlegalconsistency ofschedules andMFN exemptions. Delegations agreed toconfirm their
ability, within thenextfewdays, toaccept thesubmission oftheproposal totheCouncil.
Asnoitems were raised under Other Business, themeeting wasadjourned.