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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which came into force on January 1, 1995 and is under the administration of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is the first multilateral agreement on trade in services. In it has been implemented a framework of basic obligations that apply in principle to all service sectors. It also includes in complementary annexes various specific commitments with regard to the following sectors : financial services, telecommunications, air-transport services and the movement of natural persons. These more specific commitments proved necessary owing to the complexity and particularities found in these sectors. This paper offers an in-depth and detailed analysis of the specific rules applying to these sectors. While numerous and quite significant— especially in the financial services and telecommunications sectors— and contrary to the general rules under GATS, until now they have been the subject of few in-depth analyses. The legal analysis is accompanied with a presentation of the relative contextual environment that sheds light on the particular nature of these sectors and the reasons why such specific commitments were negotiated. In concluding, further emphasis is put upon other sectors where specific issues arise and for which — within the context of the new round of negotiations on services begun in the year 2000 - the negotiation of special and more specific rules could prove to be necessary or useful.
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