WORLD TRADE S/L/11
24July1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2165)
Trade inServices
SECOND 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 financial services areannexed tothisProtocol (hereinafter referred
toas"Members concerned"),
HavingcarriedoutnegotiationsunderthetermsoftheMinisterialDecisiononFinancialServices
adopted atMarrakesh on15April 1994,
Having regard totheSecond Annex onFinancial Services, andtotheDecision ontheapplication
ofthatAnnex adopted bytheCouncil forTrade inServices on30June1995,
Agree asfollows:
1. ASchedule ofSpecific Commitments andaListofExemptions from Article IIconcerning
financial services annexed tothisProtocol relating toaMember shall, upon theentry intoforce of
thisProtocol forthatMember, replace thefinancial services sections oftheSchedule ofSpecific
Commitments andtheListofArticle IIExemptions ofthatMember.
2. ThisProtocolshallbeopenforacceptance,bysignatureorotherwise,bytheMembersconcerned
until30June1996.
3. ThisProtocol shallenter intoforce onthe30thdayfollowing thedateofitsacceptance by
allMembers concerned. Ifby1July1996 ithasnotbeenaccepted byallMembers concerned, those
Members which haveaccepted itbefore thatdatemay, within aperiod of30daysthereafter, decide
onitsentry intoforce.
4. ThisProtocol shallbedeposited withtheDirector-General oftheWTO. TheDirector-General
oftheWTO shallpromptly furnish toeachMember oftheWTO acertified copyofthisProtocol and
notifications ofacceptances thereof pursuant toparagraph 3.
5. ThisProtocol shallberegistered inaccordance withtheprovisions ofArticle 102oftheCharter
oftheUnited Nations.
Done atGeneva this---dayof[month] onethousand ninehundred andninety-five, inasingle
copyinEnglish, French andSpanish languages, eachtextbeing authentic, except asotherwise provided
forinrespect oftheSchedules annexed hereto.