Multilateral Surveillance and Bargaining Framework Sample Clauses

Multilateral Surveillance and Bargaining Framework. The GBT deal is significant because it institutionalizes for the first time a system of multilateral mutual surveillance, and a framework for bilateral bargaining over market entry. Regarding mutual surveillance, the agreement establishes a variety of information-sharing procedures through which everyone can see what everyone else is doing and whether it conforms to their shared principles. Through ongoing consultations in the telecommunications group of the Council on Services, reports on country conditions, and bilateral interactions, the ability of member governments to hide their transgressions under a shell should progressively evaporate. Regarding the bargaining framework, clear and coherent rules and mechanisms are established according to which bilateral consultations must be conducted and measured. A country whose service supplier is seeking entry abroad is no longer left to argue and plead with its trade partner because it can now claim a right based on a binding and explicit set of multilateral rules. The net effect of this institutionalization of surveillance and bargaining guidelines should be to subject disparate national liberalization programs to a measure of harmonization in terms of pace and content. That could be very significant for the difficult implementation work that lies ahead.
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