Traduction de «Like services and service suppliers » (Anglais → Français) :

8. Points out that, in the peripheral, rural, island and outermost regions, ICT are much more useful since they make it possible to ensure that distances no longer represent an obstacle by facilitating relations between users and services, customers and suppliers, members of the public and public authorities and to cut costs and stipulated deadlines in the performance of services;

the creditor and the supplier of the goods or services have a pre-existing agreement under which credit is made available by that creditor to customers of that supplier for the acquisition of goods or services from that supplier;

WTO members have thus several possibilities at their disposal: maintain the service as a monopoly, public or private; or - open the service to competing suppliers, but restrict access to national companies; or open the service to domestic and foreign suppliers, but make no GATS commitments on it; or make GATS commitments covering the right of foreign companies to supply the service, in a ...[+++]ddition to national suppliers.

On environmental services, the Commission proposes to further improve the conditions for the supply of environmental services by foreign suppliers.

This process will be backed up by developing global testbeds Provide open access to networks for service and information suppliers It is agreed that open access to the Global Information Infrastructure and the people that it serves is essential in order to encourage firms to provide services, create new jobs and provide mutual enrichment to the citizen through the promotion of diversity, including cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as free expression of ideas.

Annex to the ANNEX DEFINITIONS "trainees" means workers whose presence in the territory of a Member State is strictly limited in duration and closely connected with increasing their skills and qualifications in their chosen profession before returning to their own countries to pursue their careers; "seasonal workers" means workers who are resident in a third country but are employed in an activity dependent on the rhythm of the seasons in the territory of a Member State on the basis of a contract for a specified period and for specific employment; "frontier workers" means workers who are employed in the frontier zone of a Member State but who return each day or at least once a week to the frontier zone of a neighbouring country in which t ...[+++]hey reside and of which they are nationals; "intra-corporate transferee": a natural person working within a legal person, other than a non-profit making organization, established in the territory of a WTO member, and being temporarily transferred in the context of the provision of a service through commercial presence in the territory of a Member State of the Communities; the legal persons concerned must have their principal place of business in the territory of a WTO member other than the Communities and their Member States and the transfer must be to an establishment (office, branch or subsidiary) of that legal person, effectively providing like services in the territory of a Member State to which the EEC Treaty applies.