Model clauses for the exclusion of public services from trade and investment agreements
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien
2016
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Inhaltsangabe:
- I. Introduction and aim of the study
- II. The current EU model of protecting public services in trade agreements
- 1. Exclusion of services supplied and activities carried out in the exercise of governmental authority
- 2. Limitation of commitments in certain sectors
- 3. “Public utilities”-clause
- III. Key challenges of the current EU model
- 1. Exclusion of investment protection from the model
- 2. Ambiguous terminology
- 3. Different levels of protection of public services
- 4. Twenty years of a successful model?
- IV. Model clauses for the exclusion of public services
- 1. Core elements
- 2. Definition of public services
- 3. Proposals for model clauses
- 4. Explanation
- a) Definition of public services
- b) Level of protection
- V. Potential critique of the proposed model clauses and alternatives
- 1. Unilateral determination of the scope of an international agreement
- 2. Potential deviation from existing GATS commitments
- 3. Alternative models
- VI. Outlook
- VII. Summary
- References