Download or read book Air Transport and the GATS Auxiliary services written by World Trade Organization and published by WTO. This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of the "Air Transport and the GATS 2000-2005 in Review " series, which will be published progressively in the course 2007 and 2008. It contains the documentation prepared by the WTO Secretariat for the WTO Membership in the framework of a quinquennal review process of the air transport sector. It deals with services "auxiliary" to air transport, namely maintenance repair and overhaul, airlines' ticket distribution, franchising, leasing, ground handling ,airport management and air navigation services. These services represent all together hundreds of billions of dollars of turnover and hundreds of thousands of jobs, but they are very rarely dealt with in the academic literature, be it economic or legal.
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Download or read book Air Transport and the GATS written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special compilation describes air transport services from a regulatory and economic point of view, with a special focus on market access questions. Each volume contains original material and up-to-date insights, written on the basis of close cooperation with industry professionals. It contains the documentation prepared by the WTO Secretariat for the WTO Membership in the framework of a quinquennal review process of the air transport sector. It deals with services "auxiliary" to air transport, namely maintenance repair and overhaul, airlines' ticket distribution, franchising, leasing, ground handling ,airport management and air navigation services.
Download or read book Air Transport and General Agreement on Trade in Services A Case for Ground Handling Services written by Sumangal Narendra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores the status of the Air Transport in General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) vis-à-vis opening of the Aviation Ground Handling market. The study is focused on the developments in terms of open market access to aviation ground handling services and developments in the GATS Air Transport Review. There is a considerable research body and studies available on the liberalization in the network industries like telecommunication and air transport and a few requests have been received for taking the commitment for aviation ground handling services. However, here the focus is to discuss the developments and seek possible answers to the status of aviation ground handling services under the GATS. This paper attempts to address the questions that arose during the explorative research: Does the GATS Air Transport Annex in its present form fulfill requirement of addressing the developments and changes in the air transport sector? Is there a need for extending the GATS coverage to include some more auxiliary services? Can Ground handling services be considered as services directly related to the 'traffic rights' which are out of the purview of the GATS? Another dimension to liberalization is the safety and security concerns of the State. The air transport is regulated traditionally by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for the signatories of the ICAO Chicago Convention of 1944. ICAO prescribes the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for all areas of aviation operation - personnel licensing, aerodrome licensing, safety and security and environmental concerns. With the liberalization in services and emergence of GATS as the platform for cross-border trade in services, air transport faces another question - the role and interface between the ICAO and GATS in terms of regulations of the same sector. GATS has the limited coverage of air transport in its Annex, exempting the sector except for the specified three auxiliary services, which does not include the aviation ground handling services. Aviation ground handling services market is growing with the growth and the liberalization in the sector. The study reveals that the Member States may consider the requests and negotiate to file the commitments under GATS even for the aviation ground handling services, but it does not directly lead to open market access for the ground handling services suppliers who face the constraints of the Infrastructure, Domestic regulations and national and international obligations of safety and security in aviation operations. Domestic policies and regulatory environment play a major role being the main influencers for market access. Conclusions and limitations of the study are included.
Download or read book Air Transport and the GATS written by World Trade Organization and published by WTO. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special compilation describes air transport services from a regulatory and economic point of view, with a special focus on market access questions. In preparation for the second air transport review mandated by the GATS Annex on Air Transport Services, the Secretariat has gathered in the present book the documentation produced in 2000-1 for the first review. It is intended to facilitate Members' cross-reference to information contained in the documentation produced for the first review. The structure adopted for this volume is a sectoral one sub-divided when necessary by themes: maintenance; computer reservation systems; selling and marketing; franchising; freight forwarding and warehousing; leasing; catering. In each of the themes, economic developments are addressed first, followed by regulatory developments.
Download or read book Aviation Ground Handling Market and GATS written by Sumangal Narendra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper aims at exploring the prospects of opening the Aviation Ground Handling Market vis-à-vis the GATS provision. The study is focused on the developments in terms of review and open market access to aviation ground handling services and in the GATS Air Transport Review. Air transport auxiliary services are emerging as important services, especially the Ground Handling Services. Expenditure on Ground handling services forms a substantial part of the operating expense of the airlines. As a response to the changes in the aviation environment, many policy changes and new initiative have been made by the governments. The study focuses on the constraints and implications of further liberalization of these services to boost competitiveness and facilitate efficient movement of goods and passengers. The study revealed that the gradual liberalization of Ground Handling market in India though widely criticized for its slow pace by the airlines, the major user of the services, has been successful so far, considering the response from the stakeholders, especially the regulatory bodies, is concerned. While naturally the airlines but not so much the national carrier, are clamouring for the full liberalization of the market with self-handling rights, the airport operators are concerned about the loss of business, monopoly status, and space constraints. Another dimension to liberalization is the safety and security concerns of the State where the regulators have been advising cautious approach to ensure the safety and security. This paper is divided into four sections: Section 1 giving the GATS and the position of Air transport, specifically the Ground Handling services, Section 2- traces the regulatory developments in the Air Transport with specific reference to Ground Handling market, as also addresses the implications for liberalization of these services through existing bilateral, to increasing pluri-lateral /multi-lateral and regional agreements. Section 3 discusses the Regulatory concerns vis-à-vis suggested course of liberalization. Conclusions are based on the findings. Section 4 enumerates the recommendations regarding areas for further research in.
Download or read book Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization written by Pierre Sauve and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services.
Download or read book General Agreement on Trade in Services written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Trade Organization written by International Trade Law Center and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 3142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners. No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do. 3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.
Download or read book Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses the operational performance of explosives-detection equipment and hardened unit-loading devices (HULDs) in airports and compares their operational performance to their laboratory performance, with a focus on improving aviation security.
Download or read book Uruguay Round Trade Agreements Texts of Agreements Implementing Bill Statement of Administrative Action and Required Supporting Statements written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a historical agreement covering a wide range of international service transactions. In support of further trade negotiations, the Guide also highlights issues in which the business community may wish to provide input as preparations for trade negotiations move forward.
Download or read book Future Flight written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of Public-Sector Requirements for a Small Aircraft Transportation System and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2002 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The GATT Uruguay Round Agreements written by United States. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and published by Office of the United States Trade Representative. This book was released on 1994 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Legal Guide to GATS written by Nellie Munin and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the WTO, over a fifth of world trade consists of transactions in services. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created to extend the multilateral trading system to services, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for trade in goods. Given its reach, the treaty's significance continues to grow.
