Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to importation, refining, wholesale and retail distribution of crude oil and its derivatives.
Sector: Environmental Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to environmental services.
Sector: Land Planning and Development
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to land planning and development, including land zoning, land use and urban planning policies.
Sector: Postal Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to postal services.
Sector: Telecommunications, Audiovisual and Advertising Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment: Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to telecommunications; audiovisual, including broadcasting; and advertising services.
Sector: Arms and Explosives
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to arms and explosives. The manufacture, use, sale, storage, transport, importation, exportation and possession of arms and explosives are regulated for protection of security interest.
Sector: Investigation and Security Services Obligations Concerned: National Treatment Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment Market Access Local Presence Performance Requirements Senior Management and Board of Directors Description: Trade in Services and Investment: Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to investigation and security services.
Sector: Air Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to air services, including freight and passengers transportation.
Sector: Maritime and Internal Waterways Transport Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment: Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to maritime and internal waterways transport services, including freight and passengers.
Sector: Services Auxiliary of all Modes of Transport
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the following services auxiliary of all modes of transport: cargo handling services; storage and warehousing services; supporting services for railway, road, water, and air transport; freight transport agency services; and other auxiliary transport services.
Sector: Passenger Land Transportation Services
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Market Access, Local Presence
Description: Trade in Services and Investment:
Costa Rica reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to passenger land transportation services which are not considered public transport services.
Annex II. Non-Conforming Measures. Schedule of Singapore
Explanatory Note
1. A Party’s Schedule to this Annex sets out, pursuant to Articles 10.7 (Non-Conforming Measures) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services) and Article 11.13 (Non-Conforming Measures) of Chapter 11 (Investment), the reservations taken by that Party for sectors, sub-sectors or activities for which it may maintain existing, or adopt new or more restrictive, measures that do not conform with obligations imposed by:
(a) Article 10.3 (National Treatment) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services) or Article 11.4 (National Treatment) of Chapter 11 (Investment);
(b) Article 10.4 (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services) or Article 11.5 (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) of Chapter 11 (Investment);
(c) Article 10.5 (Market Access) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services);
(d) Article 10.6 (Local Presence) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services);
(e) Article 11.8 (Performance Requirements) of Chapter 11 (Investment); or
(f) Article 11.12 (Senior Management and Board of Directors) of Chapter 11 (Investment).
2. The sectors, subsectors or activities to which a reservation applies shall be stated in the Description of Reservation element. In the interpretation of a reservation, all elements of the reservation shall be considered in their totality.
3. A National Treatment reservation includes a reservation in respect of National Treatment under Chapter 10 (Trade in Services) and Chapter 11 (Investment) unless the context or circumstances require otherwise.
4. The reservations and commitments relating to cross-border trade in services shall be read together with the relevant guidelines, stated in GATT documents MTN.GNS/W/164 dated 3 September 1993 and MTN.GNS/W/164 Add. 1 dated 30 November 1993.Annex II - SG - 2
5. Each Schedule entry sets out the following elements:
(a) Sector refers to the general sector for which the entry is made;
(b) Sub-Sector, for Singapore, refers to the specific subsector for which the entry is made;
(c) Industry Classification refers, for Singapore, where applicable, to the activity covered by the non-conforming measure, according to the provisional CPC codes as used in the Provisional Central Product Classification (Statistical Papers Series M No. 77, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, 1991);
(d) Type of Reservation specifies the obligation(s) referred to in paragraph 1 that, pursuant to Article 10.7 (Non-Conforming Measures) of Chapter 10 (Trade in Services) and Article 11.13 (Non-Conforming Measures) of Chapter 11 (Investment) , do not apply to the sectors, sub-sectors or activities listed in the entry for which a reservation is taken;
(e) Description of Reservation sets out the scope of the sector, sub-sector or activities to which the reservation applies; and
(f) Existing Measures identifies, for transparency purposes, existing measures that apply to the sector, sub-sector or activities covered by the entry. The measures stipulated therein are not exhaustive.
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, National Treatment, Local Presence
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services:
Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the supply of a service by the presence of natural persons, or other movement of natural persons, including immigration, entry or temporary stay.
Existing Measures
-
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: - Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirement, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure in relation to the divestment of the administrator and operator of airports.
Existing Measures -
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting the supply of health services by government-owned or controlled healthcare institutions, such as hospitals and polyclinics, including investments in these institutions, hospitals and polyclinics, social security and public training.
Existing Measures -
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting the supply of social services, social security, public training, public law enforcement, ambulance services, correctional services and fire-fighting services.
Existing Measures: -
Sector: Urban and Land Planning and Development
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting the type of activities which may be conducted on land or the usage of land, including but not limited to, its land zoning, land use and urban planning policies.
Existing Measures: -
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: - Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting, including but not limited to, the alienation and divestment of real estate owned by the State.
Existing Measures: State Lands Act, Cap. 314, 1996 Revised Edition
Sector: All
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting: (a) the full or partial devolvement to the private sector of services provided in the exercise of governmental authority; (b) the divestment of its equity interests in, and/or the assets of, an enterprise that is wholly owned by the Singapore government; and (c) the divestment of its equity interests in, and/or the assets of, an enterprise that is partially owned by the Singapore government.
Existing Measures: -
Sector: Administration and Operation of National Electronic Systems
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting the administration and operation of any national electronic system which contains proprietary information of the government or information gathered pursuant to regulatory functions and powers. Such measures apply to existing national electronic systems like TradeNet and Marinet and any other national electronic systems that may be established in the future.
Existing Measures: -
Sector: Arms and Explosives
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting the arms and explosives sector. The manufacture, use, sale, storage, transport, importation, exportation and possession of arms and explosives are regulated for protection of vital security interests.
Existing Measures: Arms and Explosives Act, Cap. 13, Revised Edition 1985
Sector: Broadcasting Services. Broadcasting services refers to the scheduling of a series of literary and artistic works by a content provider for aural and/or visual reception, and for which the content consumer has no choice over the scheduling of the series.
Sub-Sector: -
Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment:
Singapore reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measure affecting broadcasting services receivable by Singapore’s domestic audience and to the allocation of spectrum in relation to broadcasting services. This reservation does not apply to the sole activity of transmitting licensed broadcasting services to a final consumer. Commitments in production, distribution and public display of sound recordings shall not include all the broadcasting and audiovisual services and materials that are broadcasting-related. Examples of services that are reserved include: free-to-air broadcasting, cable and pay television, direct broadcasting by satellite and teletext.
Existing Measures: -
Sector: Broadcasting, Entertainment and Cultural Services
Sub-Sector: - Industry Classification: -
Type of Reservation: Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Local Presence, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description of Reservation: Trade in Services and Investment: