WTO REQUESTS
November 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has been asked to negotiate away restrictions maintained by European Union (EU) Member States that prevent non-EU companies from providing "services incidental to energy distribution" within the EU. The call has come from countries involved in the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) three years old services talks, which were rolled into the WTO's general Doha Development Round at its Qatar summit last year. These services talks have reached the bilateral horse-trading phase; the Commission is considering the requests made to ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.