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European Communities' GATS Commitments - Recreational, Cultural and Sporting Services

2008-07-02 From: WTO

Modes of supply:             1)    Cross border supply         2)    Consumption abroad           3)    Commercial presence          4)    Presence of natural persons

Sector or subsector

Limitations on market access

Limitations on national treatment

Additional commitments

10.RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING SERVICES (other than Audio‑visual Services)

 

A.Entertainment Services

(including Theatre, Live Bands and Circus Services)

(CPC 9619)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1)Unbound

 

2)None

 

3)None

 

 

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section and subject to the following specific limitations:

 

F:  Access to management functions is subject to authorization by the competent authorities.  Condition of nationality for managers of entertainment enterprise if authorization for more than two years is required.

 

I:  Economic needs test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) Unbound.

 

2)None

 

3)F, I:  Unbound for subsidies and any other forms of direct and indirect support.

 

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section

 

 

 

 

 

B.News and Press

Agency Services

(CPC 962)

1)None

 

2)None

1)None

 

2)None

 

 

3)F:  Foreign participation in companies publishing publications in the French language may not exceed 20 per cent

of the capital or of voting rights in the company.  Press agencies: unbound.

 

I:  Special anti‑concentration rules operate in the daily press and broadcasting sectors, specific limits are fixed to multimedia ownership. Foreign companies may not control publishing or broadcasting companies: foreign equity participation limited to 49 per cent.

 

P:  Foreign participation, whether by natural or juridical persons, in the capital of publishing companies, including newspapers, is limited to 10 per cent, without voting rights.  News companies, incorporated in Portugal in juridical form of "Sociedade Anónima", must have the social capital in the form of nominal stock.

3)None

 

 

 

 

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section and subject to the following specific limitations:

 

P:  Nationality requirement for administrators and managers.

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section

 

D.Sporting and Other Recreational Services other than Gambling and Betting Services

(CPC 9641, 96491)

1)None

 

2)None

 

3)None

 

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section and subject to the following specific limitations:

 

I:  Economic needs test.

1)None

 

2)None

 

3)None

 

4)Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section