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Trade in Services

Root symbols in the Services collection

S/C/...
S/DCS/W/...
S/ENQ/...
S/L/...
S/P/...
S/SECRET/...
Council on Trade in Services
minutesof regular meetings of the Council are circulated in the S/C/M/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
notificationsare issued in the S/C/N/... series;
annual reportsof the Committee are circulated in the S/C/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/C/W... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/CSS/...Council for Trade in Services in Special Session - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Council in Special Session are circulated in the S/CSS/M/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/M/... (2002- ) series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days
reportsare circulated in the S/CSS/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/... (2002- ) series;
working documentsare issued in the S/CSS/M/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/W/... (2002- ) series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/CSC/... Committee on Specific Commitments
minutesof regular meetings of the Committee are circulated in the S/CSC/M/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/CSC/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/CSC/W/... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/FIN/...Committee on Trade in Financial Services
minutesof regular meetings of the Committee are circulated in the S/FIN/M/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/FIN/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/FIN/W/... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/GBT/...Group on Basic Telecommunications - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Group are circulated in the S/GBT/M/... series;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/GBT/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/GBT/W/... series;

S/IGFS/...Interim Group on Financial Services - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Interim Group are circulated in the S/IGFS/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/IGFS/W/... series;

S/NGBT/...Negotiating Group on Basic Telecommunications
minutesof regular meetings of the Negotiating Group are circulated in the TS/NGBT/M/... and S/NGBT/M/... series;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/NGBT/... series;
working documentsare issued in the TS/NGBT/W/... and S/NGBT/W/... series;

S/NGMTS/...Negotiating Group on Basic Telecommunications - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Negotiating Group are circulated in the TS/NGMTS/... and S/NGMTS/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/NGMTS/... series;
working documentsare issued in the TS/NGMTS/W/... and S/NGMTS /W/... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/NGNP/...Negotiating Group on Movement of Natural Persons - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Negotiating Group are circulated in the S/NGNP/... series;

S/WPDR/...Working Party on Domestic Regulation
minutesof regular meetings of the Working Party are circulated in the S/WPDR/M/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/WPDR/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/ WPDR/W/... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/WPGR/...Working Party on GATS Rules
minutesof regular meetings of the Working Party are circulated in the S/WPGR/M/... series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days;
annual reports are circulated in the S/WPGR/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/WPGR/W/... series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;

S/WPPS/...Working Party on Professional Services
minutesof regular meetings of the Working Party are circulated in the S/WPPS/M/... series;
annual reportsare circulated in the S/WPPS/... series;
working documentsare issued in the S/WPPS/W/... series.

Root symbols in the Trade Negotiations collection

TN/S/...
TN/S/O/...
Council for Trade in Services in Special Session
minutesof regular meetings of the Council in Special Session are circulated in the S/CSS/M/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/M/... (2002- ) series and remain restricted for a maximum period of 45 days
reportsare circulated in the S/CSS/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/... (2002- ) series;
working documentsare issued in the S/CSS/M/... (2000-2002) and TN/S/W/... (2002- ) series and may be restricted for a period of 60 days, with the possibility of a single 30 day extension of the period of restriction;
offers under Article XIX of the GATSare circulated in the TN/S/O/... series and may be restricted;

Root symbols in the Preparatory Committee series

PC/SCS/...Sub-Committee on Services - inactive document series
minutesof regular meetings of the Sub-Committee are circulated in the PC/SCS/... series;
reportsof the Sub-Committee are circulated in the PC/SCS/... series;
additionsto Schedules are circulated in the PC/SCS/SP/... series;
working documentsof the Sub-Committee are issued in the PC/SCS/W/... series.

Other symbols

GATS/EL/...Article II (MFN) Exemptions
GATS/SC/...Schedules of Specific Commitments
  
 draft consolidated Schedules are circulated in the S/DCS/W/... series and are ascribed an ISO country code to identify the notifying MEMBER;
 modifications to Schedules are circulated in the S/SECRET/... series and remain restricted for a period of 90 days.