Telecommunications and WTO-discipline
Author: Markus Fredebeul-Krein
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 21
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The WTO Agreements on Telecommunications
Author: Bobjoseph Mathew
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Telecommunications Services, 72 member states have made commitments with regard to the increasing international competition in the telecommunications sector. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory framework at a multilateral level. It deals with the growing importance and the technological evolution of the telecommunications sector. Furthermore, it describes the negotiations on telecommunications at WTO level. The book gives insights into the provisions of the Annex on Telecommunications and describes their impact on the services industry. Moreover, the commitments relating to basic telecommunications are analyzed. The author specifically examines the reference paper which sets out rules for competition in the telecommunications sector and interprets these provisions in the light of the existing multilateral rules. Contents: WTO/ITU - Annex on Telecommunications - Schedule of Commitments on Basic Telecommunications - Reference Paper - Competition Law - Telecommunications Law.
Universal Service in WTO and EU law
Author: Olga Batura
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-10-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9462650810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a systematic comparative study of WTO and EU law relevant for universal service provision, and a timely contribution to the ongoing scholarly and policy debates about the concept and scope of universal service. Universal service is one of the most significant regulatory issues worldwide and it is likely to remain so. The central question dealt with by the author is how the technologically intensive sector of telecommunications services can be regulated in a socially fair way in the light of liberalisation and the immense importance of ICTs in the Information Society. The author investigates whether the legal frameworks of WTO and EU can meet the challenges of the rapid and dramatic technological and social change and formulates relevant policy recommendations. The book is of interest to both scholars and practitioners in several disciplines, such as EU and WTO law, telecommunications law and regulation, political science regarding market regulation and governance as well as European integration and WTO. Olga Batura is affiliated to the Leuphana Law School, University of Lüneburg, Germany, and to the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithania.
The WTO at Twenty
Author: World Trade Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research explores how multilateralism in trade has worked over the past twenty years - and provides some lessons about how it can work in the future. It describes the WTO's achievements across a number of key areas, including: strengthening the institutional foundations of the trade system; widening its membership and increasing participation; deepening trade integration through lower barriers and stronger rules; improving transparency and policy dialogue; strengthening dispute settlement; expanding cooperation with other international organizations; and enhancing public outreach. It concludes that the WTO has achieved much over its first twenty years but the success of the WTO has inevitably given rise to new challenges.
Communication Break Down
Author: José-Antonio Monteiro
Publisher:
Published: 2022
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include telecommunications provisions, the collection and systematization of information on telecommunications provisions in RTAs remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by mapping and reviewing the different types of provisions on telecommunications found in RTAs that have been notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analysis reveals that telecommunications provisions in RTAs cover a broad range of regulatory issues, from access and use to anticompetition to standards and technical regulations and cooperation. While some telecommunications provisions, in particular on telecommunications services, replicate existing WTO rules, many other provisions add clarifications or expand some of the disciplines set out in the WTO agreements. At the same time, new types of provisions have been devised to address new regulatory and technological issues, including mobile services, internet access and consumer rights. These new provisions, consistent with the overall aim of the WTO rules, aim at fostering a pro-competitive regulatory framework of the telecommunications sector.
Telecommunications-related Services
Author: Carlos Alberto Primo Braga
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe WTO Telecom Agreement
Author: William B. Garrison
Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConference report : Washington, D.C., 1997.
Telecommunications and the WTO
Author: Bjorn Wellenius
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S.-Mexico case (2002-04) was the first (and so far only) case of World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute resolution on telecommunications services and the first on services only. The findings of the Panel charged with settling the dispute contain interpretations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), especially its Annex on Telecommunications and the Reference Paper that sets regulatory principles. Although these interpretations strictly apply only to the case examined, they have implications for other countries and sectors and beyond trade law. The following are some of the findings. Telecommunications services originated in one country and terminated in another country are cross-border services under the GATS irrespective of whether the same service provider is present in both countries. The accounting rate regime, whereby operators share revenue from international services provided jointly, is subject to the discipline of cost-based interconnection for countries that have adopted the Reference Paper. Uniform settlement rates and proportional return are anticompetitive practices under the Reference Paper even when they are mandated by law. The lack of implementing regulations does not excuse the country from meeting its commitments under the GATS. Mexico and the United States, although not in full agreement with the Panel, did not appeal. An agreed plan to address the underlying legal and regulatory issues was successfully implemented in July 2005.
E-commerce, WTO and Developing Countries
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Publisher: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper discusses the policy issues that e-commerce raises for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and developing countries. Electronic commerce offers unprecedented opportunities to both developed and developing countries. In the short term, due to lack of infrastructure in the developing countries, the gains are likely to be concentrated in the developed countries. In the long term, the developing countries have more to benefit and they can gain by skipping some of the stages in development of information technology through which developed countries have had to pass. The author has three policy proposals for developing countries. First, that it would be most appropriate to classify e-commerce as trade with services with GATS discipline applied to it. Classifying e-commerce as goods trade with a permanent zero custom duty pact would liberalise all e-commerce by default, undermining the bargaining power of developing countries. Secondly Internet transactions would be best classified as cross-border trade rather than consumption abroad. The last proposal is that developing countries with the capacity to export skilled services through the Internet, should aggressively negotiate market access with developed countries in the future WTO negotiations aiming to seek liberalisation in the sectors in which they have comparative advantage and recognition of their education, qualifications and skills etc.
Can (and) Should the WTO Tame Private Standards? Antitrust Mechanism as an Alternative Roadmap
Author: Tilahun E. Kassahun
Publisher:
Published: 2017
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of private standards within the WTO has gradually developed from a mere theoretical and academic discussion to a full blown policy and legal debate. This debate however is still far away from reaching consensus. First of all, it is still unclear whether the issue of private standards should be discussed within the WTO framework. Second there are still plenty of confusion on the manner of approaching the discussions and regulating the trade externalities of private standards and the future shape of any WTO discipline in this regard, if any. The objective of this contribution is to develop an alternative roadmap towards private standards within the WTO framework. In doing so it examines the role that market power plays in private standard-setting and the possibility of adopting comparable competition law governance mechanisms incorporated within the WTO, such as the WTO Telecommunications Reference Paper.
