17 April 2000

Services Council adopts negotiating timetable for this year

At a special session on Friday 14 April, the Council for Trade in Services adopted its work programme for 2000, including the dates for negotiating sessions (see below). It will take the shape of four "services weeks". During each of these four weeks, meetings of the services subsidiary committees (committee on specific commitments, working party on domestic regulations, working party on GATS rules) will be followed by a meeting of the services council (on the review of MFN exemptions or the review of the annex on air transport services) and finally by a special session of the services council on negotiations.