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(b) cost-justify its rates for those services;

(c) file a tariff for those services;

(d) connect its networks with any particular customer for the supply of those services; or

(e) conform with any particular standard or technical regulation of the telecommunications regulatory body for connecting to any other network, other than a public telecommunications network.

2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, a Party may take the actions described in paragraph 1 to remedy a practice of a supplier of value-added services that the Party has found in a particular case to be anticompetitive in accordance with its laws and regulations, or to otherwise promote competition or safeguard the interests of consumers.

Article 9.15. Independent Regulatory Bodies

1. Each Party shall ensure that its telecommunications regulatory body is separate from and functionally independent of any supplier of public telecommunications networks or services. To this end, each Party shall ensure that its telecommunications regulatory body does not own equity or maintain an operating or management role in any such supplier.

2. Each Party shall ensure that the decisions and procedures of its telecommunications regulatory body are impartial with respect to all market participants and shall be made and implemented on a timely basis.

Article 9.16. Universal Service

Each Party shall administer any universal service obligation that it maintains in a transparent, non-discriminatory and competitively neutral manner and shall ensure that its universal service obligation is not more burdensome than necessary for the kind of universal service that it has defined.

Article 9.17. Licensing Process

1. When a Party requires a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services to have a licence, the Party shall make publicly available:

(a) all the licensing criteria and procedures it applies;

(b) the period it normally requires to reach a decision concerning an application for a licence; and

(c) the terms and conditions of all licences in effect.

2. Each Party shall ensure that, on request, an applicant receives the reasons for the denial of, revocation of, refusal to renew, or imposition of conditions on, a licence.

Article 9.18. Allocation and Use of Scarce Telecommunications Resources

1. Each Party shall administer its procedures for the allocation and use of scarce telecommunications resources, including frequencies, numbers, and rights of way, in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory manner.

2. Each Party shall make publicly available the current state of allocated frequency bands but shall not be required to provide detailed identification of frequencies allocated or assigned for specific government uses.

3. For greater certainty, a Party's measures allocating and assigning spectrum and managing frequency are not measures that are per se inconsistent with Article 7.4 (Market Access) either as it applies to Chapter 7 (Cross-Border Trade in Services) or through the operation of Article 7.1 (Scope) to Chapter 11 (Investment). Accordingly, each Party shall retain the right to establish and apply spectrum and frequency management policies that may have the effect of limiting the number of suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services, provided that it does so in a manner consistent with other provisions of this Agreement. This includes the ability to allocate frequency bands, taking into account current and future needs.

4. Each Party shall endeavour to allocate and assign spectrum for non-government telecommunications services in a transparent manner that considers the overall public interest, including the encouragement of the economically efficient use of the spectrum and competition among suppliers of telecommunications services, and recognising that a Party may encourage such activities through a variety of means, including through administrative incentive pricing, auctions, or unlicensed use.

Article 9.19. Enforcement

1. Each Party shall provide its telecommunications regulatory body with the authority to enforce the Party's measures relating to the obligations in Articles 9.3 through 9.13.

2. Such authority shall include the ability to impose, or seek from administrative or judicial bodies, effective sanctions, which may include financial penalties, injunctive relief (on an interim or final basis), corrective orders, or the modification, suspension, or revocation of licences.

Article 9.20. Resolution of Telecommunications Disputes

Further to Articles 19.3 (Administrative Proceedings) and 19.4 (Review and Appeal), each Party shall ensure that:

Recourse

(a) suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services may have recourse to a telecommunications regulatory body or other relevant body of the Party to resolve disputes between suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services on a timely basis regarding measures relating to matters in Articles 9.3 through 9.13;

(b) suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party that have requested interconnection with a major supplier in the Party's territory may have recourse, within a reasonable and publicly specified period after the supplier requests interconnection, to a telecommunications regulatory body or other relevant body to resolve disputes regarding the terms, conditions, and rates for interconnection with such major supplier; and

Judicial Review

(c) any service supplier whose legally-protected interests are adversely affected by a determination or decision of the Party's telecommunications regulatory body may obtain review of the determination or decision by an impartial and independent judicial authority of the Party. Neither Party shall permit the making of an application for judicial review to constitute grounds for non-compliance with the determination or decision of the telecommunications regulatory body, unless the relevant judicial body otherwise determines.

Article 9.21. Transparency

Further to Article 19.1 (Publication), each Party shall ensure that:

(a) regulatory decisions, including the basis for such decisions, of its telecommunications regulatory body are promptly published or otherwise made available to all interested persons;

(b) its measures relating to public telecommunications networks or services are made publicly available, including:

(i) tariffs and other terms and conditions of service;

(ii) specifications of technical interfaces;

(iii) conditions for attaching terminal or other equipment to public telecommunications networks;

(iv) notification, permit, registration, or licensing requirements, if any;

(v) the amendment and adoption of measures concerning technologies or standards affecting access and use; and

(vi) procedures relating to judicial or administrative review; and

(c) its telecommunications regulatory body or other relevant body provides, on request by a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party, a written explanation of reasons for any decision that denies access of the kind specified in Articles 9.9, 9.11 and 9.12.

Article 9.22. Measures Concerning Technologies and Standards

1. Neither Party shall prevent suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services or value-added services from having the flexibility to choose the technologies that they use to supply their services.

2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, a Party may apply a measure that limits the technologies or standards that a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services or value-added services may use to supply its services, provided that the measure is designed to satisfy a legitimate public policy objective and is not prepared, adopted or applied in a manner that creates unnecessary obstacles to trade.

Article 9.23. Consultation with Industry

Each Party shall facilitate consultation with suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party operating in its territory in the development of telecommunications policy, regulations and standards in a manner that is open to any participant in the telecommunications industry in the territory of that Party.

Article 9.24. Relation to International Organisations

The Parties recognise the importance of international standards for global compatibility and inter-operability of telecommunications networks and services and undertake to promote such standards through the work of relevant international organisations, including the International Telecommunication Union and the International Organization for Standardization.

Article 9.25. Committee on Telecommunications

1. For the purposes of the effective implementation and operation of this Chapter, the Committee on Telecommunications, established in accordance with Article 21.4 (Committees and Working Groups), shall comprise officials of each Party, including officials responsible for telecommunications.

2. The Committee shall:

(a) review and monitor the implementation and operation of this Chapter; and

(b) discuss any issues related to this Chapter, and other issues relevant to the telecommunications sectors of the Parties.

3. Further to Article 21.4 (Committees and Working Groups), the Committee shall, as appropriate, report its findings and the outcomes of its discussions to the Joint Committee.

4. The Committee shall meet as agreed by the Parties. 5. The Parties may invite, by mutual consent, representatives of relevant entities other than the governments of the Parties, including those from the private sector, with the necessary expertise relevant to the issues to be discussed, to attend meetings of the Committee.

Section E. Definitions

Article 9.26. Definitions

For the purposes of this Chapter:

co-location (physical) means physical access to space in order to install, maintain, orrepair equipment at premises owned or controlled and used by a major supplier to provide public telecommunications networks or services;

commercial mobile services means public telecommunications services supplied through mobile wireless means;

cost-oriented means based on cost, and may include a reasonable profit and may involve different cost methodologies for different facilities or services;

dialling parity means the ability of an end-user to use an equal number of digits to access the same type of public telecommunications service, regardless of the supplier of public telecommunications services chosen by such end-user and in a way that involves no unreasonable dialling delays;

end-user means a final consumer of or subscriber to a public telecommunications service, including a service supplier other than a supplier of public telecommunications services;

essential facilities means facilities of a public telecommunications network or service that:

(a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers; and

(b) cannot feasibly be economically or technically substituted in order to provide a service;

interconnection means linking with suppliers providing public telecommunications services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users of another supplier and to access services provided by another supplier;

leased circuits means telecommunications facilities between two or more designated points that are set aside for the dedicated use of, or availability to, a user or users;

major supplier means a supplier of public telecommunications services that has the ability to materially affect the terms of participation (having regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for public telecommunications services as a result of:

(a) control over essential facilities; or

(b) use of its position in the market; network element means a facility or equipment used in supplying a public telecommunications service, including features, functions, and capabilities provided by means of that facility or equipment;

non-discriminatory means treatment no less favourable than that accorded to any other user of like public telecommunications networks or services in like circumstances;

number portability means the ability of end-users of public telecommunications services to retain, at the same location, the same telephone numbers when switching between suppliers of the same type of public telecommunications services;

public telecommunications network means telecommunications infrastructure used to provide public telecommunications services;

public telecommunications networks or services means public telecommunications networks, or public telecommunications services, or public telecommunications networks and services;

public telecommunications service means any telecommunications service that is offered to the public generally. Such services may include, inter alia, telephone and data transmission typically involving customer-supplied information between two or more points without any end-to-end change in the form or content of the customer's information, and excludes value-added services;

service supplier of the other Party means a person of the other Party that seeks to supply or supplies a service, including a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services;

telecommunications means the transmission and reception of signals by any electromagnetic means;

telecommunications regulatory body means any body or bodies at the central level of government responsible for the regulation of telecommunications;

user means an end-user or a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services; and

value-added services means services that add value to telecommunications services through enhanced functionality. For Australia, these are telecommunications services for which suppliers add value to customer information by enhancing its form or content or by providing for its storage or retrieval. For Korea, these are services as defined in subparagraph 12 of Article 2 of the Telecommunications Business Act.

ANNEX 9-A. Suppliers of public telecommunications services

Korea

Article 9.4 shall not apply to Korea with respect to suppliers of international public telecommunications services.

ANNEX 9-B. Exemptions from section c: additional obligations relating to major suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services

Korea

1. Major suppliers shall be exempt from the application of the obligations specified in Articles 9.8, 9.9.1(a), 9.9.1(e), 9.11 and 9.12 to the extent that the supplier of public telecommunications networks or services of the other Party is a non-facilities based supplier.

2. Notwithstanding Articles 9.9.1(b), 9.9.1(d) and 9.10, Korea may permit major suppliers to offer rates, terms, and conditions to non-facilities based suppliers of public telecommunications services that are discriminatory compared to the rates, terms and conditions offered to facilities- based suppliers of public telecommunications services. For greater certainty, this provision does not derogate from Article 9.20, and non-facilities based suppliers of public telecommunications services may have recourse to the telecommunications regulatory body or other relevant body regarding disputes over such rates, terms, and conditions.

3. Consistent with Article 5.3 of the Telecommunications Business Act, a "non-facilities based supplier" is a licensed supplier of public telecommunications services that does not own wire or wireless lines or other transmission facilities, but may own a switch, router, or multiplexer, and supplies its public telecommunications services through transmission facilities of a licensed facilities-based supplier.

4. Major suppliers shall be exempt from the application of the obligations specified in Articles 9.5, 9.7, 9.8 and Articles 9.10, 9.11 and 9.12 to the extent that they are supplying commercial mobile services.

Chapter 10. Movement of Natural Persons

Article 10.1. Scope

1. This Chapter shall apply to measures affecting the movement of natural persons of a Party into the territory of the other Party under any of the categories referred to in Annex 10-A.

2. This Chapter reflects the mutually beneficial trading relationship between the Parties, the Parties' mutual desire to facilitate temporary entry for business persons on a reciprocal basis and to establish transparent criteria and procedures for temporary entry, and the need to ensure border security and to protect the domestic labour force and permanent employment in their respective territories.

3. This Chapter shall not apply to measures affecting natural persons of a Party seeking access to the employment market of the other Party, nor to measures regarding citizenship, or residence or employment on a permanent basis.

4. This Chapter shall not prevent a Party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons of the other Party into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across, its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to nullify or impair the benefits accruing to the other Party under this Chapter.

5. The sole fact of requiring persons to meet eligibility requirements prior to entry into the territory of a Party shall not be regarded as nullifying or impairing the benefits accruing to the other Party under this Chapter.

Article 10.2. Relation to other Chapters

Except for this Chapter, Chapters 1 (Initial Provisions and Definitions), 20 (Dispute Settlement) to the extent permitted by Article 10.6, 21 (Institutional Provisions), 22 (General Provisions and Exceptions) and 23 (Final Provisions) and Articles 19.1 (Publication), 19.2 (Provision of Information) and 19.3 (Administrative Proceedings), nothing in this Agreement shall impose any obligation on a Party regarding its immigration measures within the scope of this Chapter.

Article 10.3. Grant of Temporary Entry

1. Each Party shall set out in Annex 10-A the specific commitments it undertakes for each of the categories of natural persons specified therein.

2. Each Party shall grant temporary entry to natural persons of the other Party in accordance with this Chapter, including the terms of the categories in Annex 10-A, provided that the natural persons comply with the relevant laws and regulations of the granting Party applicable to temporary entry, and any measures taken in accordance with them.

3. Neither Party shall impose or maintain any limitations on the total number of visas to be granted to natural persons of the other Party under this Chapter, unless otherwise specified in Annex 10-A.

10.4. Requirements and procedures relating to the movement of natural persons

1. Each Party shall endeavour to establish or maintain immigration formalities, which can be granted prior to arrival in its territory, to allow natural persons covered by this Chapter entry into and temporary stay in its territory.

2. Each Party shall expeditiously process complete applications for immigration formalities received from natural persons of the other Party covered by this Chapter, including further immigration formality requests or extensions thereof.

3. Each Party shall, on request and within a reasonable period after a complete application by a natural person of the other Party covered by this Chapter requesting temporary entry is lodged, notify the applicant of:

(a) receipt of the application;

(b) the status of the application; and

(c) the decision concerning the application, including:

(i) if approved, the period of stay and other conditions; or

(ii) if refused, the reasons for refusal and any avenues for review.

4. Each Party shall ensure that fees charged by its competent authorities on applications for immigration formalities do not in themselves represent an unjustifiable impediment to the movement of natural persons of the other Party under this Chapter.

5. Each Party shall endeavour to simplify the procedures and requirements relating to the movement of natural persons of the other Party, within the framework of its laws and regulations.

Article 10.5. Online Lodgement and Processing

Each Party shall endeavour, to the extent possible, to provide facilities for online lodgement and processing of immigration formalities.

Article 10.6. Dispute Settlement

1. The Parties shall make every attempt through cooperation and consultations to arrive at a mutually satisfactory resolution of any matter that might affect the operation of this Chapter.

2. The dispute settlement procedures provided in Chapter 20 (Dispute Settlement) shall not apply to this Chapter unless:

(a) the matter involves a pattern of practice; and

(b) the natural persons of a Party concerned have exhausted administrative remedies, where available, regarding the particular matter.

3. The remedies referred to in paragraph 2(b) shall be deemed to be exhausted if a final determination in the matter has not been issued within one year after the date of the institution of proceedings (not including any review or appeal) for such remedy, and the failure to issue such a determination is not attributable to delays caused by the natural persons concerned.

Article 10.7. Transparency

Further to Articles 19.1 (Publication) and 19.2 (Provision of Information), each Party shall:

(a) publish or otherwise make publicly available no later than six months after the date of entry into force of this Agreement, explanatory material regarding the requirements for temporary entry under this Chapter, in such a manner as will enable natural persons of the other Party to become acquainted with them; and

(b) establish or maintain appropriate mechanisms to respond to enquiries from interested persons regarding measures relating to the temporary entry of natural persons covered by this Chapter.

Article 10.8. Definitions

For the purposes of this Chapter:

immigration formalities means a visa, permit or any other document or electronic authority granting a natural person of a Party temporary entry to the other Party;

natural person of a Party means a natural person who under the law of the Party:

(a) for Australia, is a citizen or a permanent resident of Australia; and

(b) for Korea, is a national or a permanent resident of Korea; and

temporary entry means entry by a natural person covered by this Chapter, without the intent to establish permanent residence.

ANNEX 10-A. Specific commitments on the movement of natural persons

Section A. Australia's Specific Commitments

1. Australia requires a natural person of Korea seeking temporary entry to its territory under the provisions of this Chapter and this Annex to obtain appropriate immigration formalities prior to entry. Grant of temporary entry in accordance with this Annex is contingent on meeting eligibility requirements contained within Australia's migration law and regulations, as applicable at the time of an application for grant of temporary entry. Eligibility requirements for grant of temporary entry in accordance with paragraphs 5 through 11 include, but are not limited to, employer nomination and occupation requirements.

Business Visitors of Korea

2. Entry and temporary stay shall be granted to business visitors of Korea referred to in paragraph 4(a) for a period of up to 90 days.

3. Entry and temporary stay shall be granted to business visitors of Korea referred to in paragraph 4(b) for a period of up to six months, with the possibility of further stay.

4. A business visitor of Korea means a natural person of Korea who is:

(a) a natural person seeking to travel to Australia for business purposes, including for investment purposes, whose remuneration and financial support for the duration of the visit must be derived from sources outside Australia, and who must not engage in making direct sales to the general public or in supplying goods or services themselves; or

(b) aservice seller, who is a natural person not based in Australia whose remuneration and financial support for the duration of the visit must be derived from sources outside Australia, and who is a sales representative of a service supplying enterprise, seeking temporary entry for the purpose of negotiating for the sale of services or entering into agreements to sell services for that service supplying enterprise.

Intra-Corporate Transferees of Korea

5. Entry and temporary stay shall be granted to intra-corporate transferees of Korea referred to in paragraph 7(a) for a period of up to four years, with the possibility of further stay.

6. Entry and temporary stay shall be granted to intra-corporate transferees of Korea referred to in paragraph 7(b) for a period of up to two years, with the possibility of further stay.

7. An intra-corporate transferee of Korea means an employee of an enterprise of Korea established in Australia through a branch, subsidiary or affiliate which is lawfully and actively operating in Australia, who is transferred to fill a position in the branch, subsidiary or affiliate of the enterprise in Australia, and who is:

(a) an executive or a senior manager, who is a natural person responsible for the entire or a substantial part of the operations of the enterprise in Australia, receiving general supervision or direction principally from higher-level executives, the board of directors or stockholders of the enterprise, including directing the enterprise or a department or subdivision of it; supervising and controlling the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees; and having the authority to establish goals and policies of the department or subdivision of the enterprise; or

(b) a specialist, who is a natural person with advanced trade, technical or professional skills and experience who must be assessed as having the necessary qualifications, or alternative credentials accepted as meeting Australia's standards, for that occupation, and who must have been employed by the employer for not less than two years immediately preceding the date of the application for temporary entry.

Independent Executives of Korea

  • Chapter   1 Initial Provisions and Definitions 1
  • Section   A Initial Provisions 1
  • Article   1.1 Establishment of a Free Trade Area 1
  • Article   1.2 Relation to other Agreements 1
  • Article   1.3 Extent of Obligations 1
  • Section   B General Definitions 1
  • Article   1.4 Definitions 1
  • Chapter   2 Trade In Goods 1
  • Article   2.1 Scope 1
  • Article   2 National Treatment 1
  • Article   2.3 Elimination of Customs Duties 1
  • Article   2.4 Goods Re-entered after Repair or Alteration 1
  • Article   2.5 Duty-free Entry of Commercial Samples of Negligible Value and Printed Advertising Materials 1
  • Article   2.6 Import and Export Restrictions 1
  • Article   2.7 Import Licensing 1
  • Article   2.8 Administrative Fees and Formalities 1
  • Article   2.9 Export Duties, Taxes or other Charges 1
  • Article   2.10 Non-tariff Measures 1
  • Article   2 Committee on Trade In Goods 1
  • Article   2.12 Definitions 1
  • ANNEX 2-A  Elimination of customs duties 1
  • Section   A Tariff Schedule of Australia 1
  • Section   B Tariff schedule of korea 1
  • Chapter   3 Rules of origin and origin procedures 2
  • Section   A Rules of origin 2
  • Article   3.1 Originating goods 2
  • Article   3.2 Wholly obtained goods 2
  • Article   3.3 Regional value content 2
  • Article   3.4 Value of materials 2
  • Article   3.5 Accumulation 2
  • Article   3.6 De minimis 2
  • Article   3.7 Fungible goods and materials 2
  • Article   3.8 Accessories, spare parts and tools 2
  • Article   3.9 Packaging materials and containers for retail sale 2
  • Article   3.10 Packing materials and containers for transportation and shipment 2
  • Article   3.11 Indirect materials 2
  • Article   3.12 Non-qualifying operation 2
  • Article   3.13 Outward processing zones on the korean peninsula 2
  • Article   3.14 Direct transport 2
  • Section   B Origin procedures 3
  • Article   3.15 Certificate of origin 3
  • Article   3.16 Authorised bodies 3
  • Article   3.17 Claims for preferential tariff treatment 3
  • Article   3.18 Post-importation claims for preferential tariff treatment 3
  • Article   3.19 Waiver of certificate of origin 3
  • Article   3.20 Discrepancies and variations 3
  • Article   3.21 Obligations regarding exportations 3
  • Article   3.22 Record keeping requirements 3
  • Article   3.23 Origin verification 3
  • Article   3.24 Verification visit 3
  • Article   3.25 Denial of preferential tariff treatment 3
  • Article   3.26 Non-party invoices 3
  • Article   3.27 Confidentiality 3
  • Article   3.28 Penalties 3
  • Article   3.29 Appeal procedures 3
  • Article   3.30 Definitions 3
  • Chapter   4 Customs administration and trade facilitation 3
  • Article   4.1 Objectives 3
  • Article   4.2 Transparency 3
  • Article   4.3 Harmonisation of documents and data elements 3
  • Article   4.4 Use of automated systems in the paperless trading environment 3
  • Article   4.5 Risk management 3
  • Article   4.6 Release of goods 3
  • Article   4.7 Advance rulings 3
  • Article   4.8 Appeal procedures 4
  • Article   4.9 Customs cooperation 4
  • Article   4.10 Bilateral customs consultation 4
  • Article   4.11 Confidentiality 4
  • Article   4.12 Committee on rules of origin and trade facilitation 4
  • Article   4.13 Definitions 4
  • Chapter   5 Technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures 4
  • Section   A Technical barriers to trade 4
  • Article   5.1 Scope 4
  • Article   5.2 Affirmation of the tbt agreement 4
  • Article   5.3 International standards, guides and recommendations 4
  • Article   5.4 Technical regulations 4
  • Article   5.5 Marking and labelling 4
  • Article   5.6 Conformity assessment procedures 4
  • Article   5.7 Joint cooperation 4
  • Article   5.8 Transparency 4
  • Article   5.9 Coordination mechanism 4
  • Article   5.10 Information exchange 4
  • Article   5.11 Dispute settlement 4
  • Article   5.12 Definitions 4
  • Section   B Sanitary and phytosanitary measures 4
  • Article   5.13 Scope 4
  • Article   5.14 Affirmation of the sps agreement 4
  • Article   5.15 Contact points 4
  • Article   5.16 Technical meetings 4
  • Article   5.17 Cooperation 4
  • Article   5.18 Dispute settlement 5
  • Chapter   6 Trade remedies 5
  • Section   A Safeguard measures 5
  • Article   6.1 Application of a safeguard measure 5
  • Article   6.2 Conditions and limitations 5
  • Article   6.3 Provisional safeguard measure 5
  • Article   6.4 Compensation 5
  • Article   6.5 Global safeguard measures 5
  • Article   6.6 Definitions 5
  • Section   B Agricultural safeguard measures 5
  • Article   6.7 Agricultural safeguard measures 5
  • Section   C Anti-dumping and countervailing measures 5
  • Article   6.8 Anti-dumping and countervailing measures 5
  • Article   6.9 Notification and consultations 5
  • Article   6.10 Undertakings 5
  • Chapter   7 Cross-border trade in services 5
  • Article   7.1 Scope 5
  • Article   7.2 National treatment 5
  • Article   7.3 Most-favoured-nation treatment 5
  • Article   7.4 Market access 5
  • Article   7.5 Local presence 5
  • Article   7.6 Non-conforming measures 5
  • Article   7.7 Domestic regulation 5
  • Article   7.8 Transparency in developing and applying regulations 5
  • Article   7.9 Recognition 5
  • Article   7.10 Payments and transfers 5
  • Article   7.11 Denial of benefits 5
  • Article   7.12 Audiovisual co-production 6
  • Article   7.13 Definitions 6
  • ANNEX 7-A  Professional services 6
  • ANNEX 7-B  Audiovisual co-production 6
  • Article   1 Competent authorities 6
  • Article   2 Approval of audiovisual co-productions 6
  • Article   3 Co-producer status 6
  • Article   4 Third country co-productions 6
  • Article   5 Entitlement to benefits 6
  • Article   6 Import of equipment 6
  • Article   7 Immigration facilitation 6
  • Article   8 Contributions 6
  • Article   9 Location filming 6
  • Article   10 Participation 6
  • Article   11 Footage 6
  • Article   12 Making up to first-release print 6
  • Article   13 Acknowledgments and credits 6
  • Article   14 Taxation 6
  • Article   15 Balance 6
  • Article   16 Institutional mechanism 6
  • Article   17 Dispute settlement 6
  • Article   18 Implementing arrangements 6
  • Article   19 Review 6
  • Article   20 Scope and interpretation of the annex 6
  • Article   21 Duration and termination 6
  • Article   22 Definitions 6
  • Chapter   8 Financial services 6
  • Article   8.1 Scope 6
  • Article   8.2 National treatment 6
  • Article   8.3 Most-favoured-nation treatment 7
  • Article   8.4 Market access for financial institutions 7
  • Article   8.5 Cross-border trade 7
  • Article   8.6 New financial services 7
  • Article   8.7 Treatment of certain information 7
  • Article   8.8 Senior management and boards of directors 7
  • Article   8.9 Non-conforming measures 7
  • Article   8.10 Exceptions 7
  • Article   8.11 Transparency 7
  • Article   8.12 Self-regulatory organisations 7
  • Article   8.13 Payment and clearing systems 7
  • Article   8.14 Recognition 7
  • Article   8.15 Specific commitments 7
  • Article   8.16 Committee on financial services 7
  • Article   8.17 Consultations 7
  • Article   8.18 Dispute settlement 7
  • Article   8.19 Investment disputes in financial services 7
  • Article   8.20 Definitions 7
  • ANNEX 8-A  Cross-border trade 8
  • ANNEX 8-B  Specific commitments 8
  • Section   A Transfer of information 8
  • Section   B Performance of functions 8
  • Section   C Supervisory cooperation 8
  • Section   D Certain government entities 8
  • Section   E Cross-border trade 8
  • Section   F Chief executive officer 8
  • Section   G Portfolio management 8
  • Section   H Government procurement 8
  • Chapter   9 Telecommunications 8
  • Article   9.1 Scope 8
  • Article   9.2 Relation to other chapters 8
  • Section   A Access to and use of public telecommunications networks or services 8
  • Article   9.3 Access and use 8
  • Section   B Suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services 8
  • Article   9.4 Obligations relating to suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services 8
  • Section   C Additional obligations relating to major suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services 8
  • Article   9.5 Treatment by major suppliers 8
  • Article   9.6 Competitive safeguards 8
  • Article   9.7 Resale 8
  • Article   9.8 Unbundling of network elements 8
  • Article   9.9 Interconnection 8
  • Article   9.10 Provisioning and pricing of leased circuit services 8
  • Article   9.11 Co-location 8
  • Article   9.12 Access to telecommunications facilities 8
  • Section   D Other measures 8
  • Article   9.13 Submarine cable systems 8
  • Article   9.14 Conditions for the supply of value-added services 8
  • Article   9.15 Independent regulatory bodies 9
  • Article   9.16 Universal service 9
  • Article   9.17 Licensing process 9
  • Article   9.18 Allocation and use of scarce telecommunications resources 9
  • Article   9.19 Enforcement 9
  • Article   9.20 Resolution of telecommunications disputes 9
  • Article   9.21 Transparency 9
  • Article   9.22 Measures concerning technologies and standards 9
  • Article   9.23 Consultation with industry 9
  • Article   9.24 Relation to international organisations 9
  • Article   9.25 Committee on telecommunications 9
  • Section   E Definitions 9
  • Article   9.26 Definitions 9
  • ANNEX 9-A  Suppliers of public telecommunications services 9
  • ANNEX 9-B  Exemptions from section c: additional obligations relating to major suppliers of public telecommunications networks or services 9
  • Chapter   10 Movement of natural persons 9
  • Article   10.1 Scope 9
  • Article   10.2 Relation to other chapters 9
  • Article   10.3 Grant of temporary entry 9
  • 10.4  Requirements and procedures relating to the movement of natural persons 9
  • Article   10.5 Online lodgement and processing 9
  • Article   10.6 Dispute settlement 9
  • Article   10.7 Transparency 9
  • Article   10.8 Definitions 9
  • ANNEX 10-A  Specific commitments on the movement of natural persons 9
  • Section   A Australia's specific commitments 9
  • Section   B Korea's specific commitments 10
  • APPENDIX 10-A-1  List of contractual service suppliers 10
  • Chapter   11 Investment 10
  • Section   A Investment 10
  • Article   11.1 Scope 10
  • Article   11.2 Relation to other chapters 10
  • Article   11.3 National treatment 10
  • Article   11.4 Most-favoured-nation treatment 10
  • Article   11.5 Minimum standard of treatment 10
  • Article   11.6 Losses and compensation 10
  • Article   11.7 Expropriation and compensation 10
  • Article   11.8 Transfers 10
  • Article   11.9 Performance requirements 10
  • Article   11.10 Senior management and boards of directors 10
  • Article   11.11 Denial of benefits 10
  • Article   11.12 Non-conforming measures 11
  • Article   11.13 Special formalities and information requirements 11
  • Article   11.14 Subrogation 11
  • Section   B Investor-state dispute settlement 11
  • Article   11.15 Consultation and negotiation 11
  • Article   11.16 Submission of a claim to arbitration 11
  • Article   11.17 Consent of each party to arbitration 11
  • Article   11.18 Conditions and limitations on consent of each party 11
  • Article   11.19 Selection of arbitrators 11
  • Article   11.20 Conduct of the arbitration 11
  • Article   11.21 Transparency of arbitral proceedings 11
  • Article   11.22 Governing law 11
  • Article   11.23 Interpretation of annexes 11
  • Article   11.24 Expert reports 11
  • Article   11.25 Consolidation 11
  • Article   11.26 Awards 12
  • Article   11.27 Service of documents 12
  • Section   C Definitions 12
  • Article   11.28 Definitions 12
  • ANNEX 11-A  Customary international law 12
  • ANNEX 11-B  Expropriation 12
  • ANNEX 11-C  Transfers 12
  • ANNEX 11-D  Illustrative list of australian residency requirements 12
  • ANNEX 11-E  Possibility of a bilateral appellate mechanism 12
  • ANNEX 11-F  Submission of a claim to arbitration 12
  • ANNEX 11-G  Foreign investment policy 12
  • ANNEX 11-H  Service of documents on a party under section b 12
  • ANNEX 11-I  Taxation and expropriation 12
  • Chapter   12 Government procurement 12
  • Article   12.1 Scope 12
  • Article   12.2 Exceptions 13
  • Article   12.3 General principles 13
  • Article   12.4 Publication of notices 13
  • Article   12.5 Time limits 13
  • Article   12.6 Conditions for participation 13
  • Article   12.7 Registration and qualification of suppliers 13
  • Article   12.8 Technical specifications 13
  • Article   12.9 Tender documentation 13
  • Article   12.10 Selective tendering procedures 13
  • Article   12.11 Limited tendering 13
  • Article   12.12 Receipt and opening of tenders and awarding of contracts 13
  • Article   12.13 Post-award information 13
  • Article   12.14 Ensuring integrity in procurement processes 14
  • Article   12.15 Domestic review procedures 14
  • Article   12.16 Rectifications and modifications to coverage 14
  • Article   12.17 Definitions 14
  • Chapter   13 Intellectual property rights 14
  • Article   13.1 General provisions 14
  • Article   13.2 Trademarks 14
  • Article   13.3 Cooperation 14
  • Article   13.4 Domain names on the internet 14
  • Article   13.5 Copyright and related rights 14
  • Article   13.6 Copyright 14
  • Article   13.7 Related rights 14
  • Article   13.8 Patents 14
  • Article   13.9 Enforcement of intellectual property rights 15
  • Article   13.10 Understandings regarding certain public health measures 15
  • Article   13.11 Transitional provisions 15
  • Article   13.12 Committee on intellectual property 15
  • Article   13.13 Definitions 15
  • Chapter   14 Competition policy 15
  • Article   14.1 Objectives 15
  • Article   14 Promotion of competition 15
  • Article   14.3 Application of competition laws 15
  • Article   14.4 Competitive neutrality 15
  • Article   14 Cooperation 15
  • Article   14.6 Notifications 15
  • Article   14.7 Consultations 15
  • Article   14.8 Cross-border consumer protection 15
  • Article   14.9 Dispute settlement 15
  • Article   14.10 Definitions 15
  • Chapter   15 Electronic commerce 15
  • Article   15.1 Objectives 15
  • Article   15.2 Electronic supply of services 15
  • Article   15.3 Customs duties 15
  • Article   15.4 Domestic regulation 15
  • Article   15.5 Electronic authentication and electronic signatures 15
  • Article   15.6 Online consumer protection 15
  • Article   15.7 Paperless trading 16
  • Article   15.8 Online personal data protection 16
  • Article   15.9 Unsolicited commercial electronic messages 16
  • Article   15.10 Definitions 16
  • Chapter   16 Cooperation 16
  • Section   A Agriculture, fisheries and forestry 16
  • Article   16.1 Objective 16
  • Article   16.2 Scope 16
  • Article   16.3 Cooperative activities 16
  • Article   16.4 Innovation, research and development 16
  • Article   16.5 Agriculture 16
  • Article   16.6 Fisheries and aquaculture 16
  • Article   16.7 Forestry 16
  • Article   16.8 Sanitary and phytosanitary matters 16
  • Article   16.9 Security of food supply 16
  • Article   16.10 Contact points 16
  • Article   16.11 Committee on agricultural cooperation 16
  • Article   16.12 Resources 16
  • Section   B Energy and mineral resources 16
  • Article   16.13 Objective 16
  • Article   16.14 Cooperative activities 16
  • Article   16.15 Promotion and facilitation of trade and investment 16
  • Article   16.16 Exchange of information 16
  • Article   16.17 Security in energy and mineral resources 16
  • Article   16.18 Contact points 16
  • Article   16.19 Committee on energy and mineral resources cooperation 17
  • Article   16.20 Resources 17
  • Chapter   17 Labour 17
  • Article   17.1 General principles 17
  • Article   17 Procedural guarantees 17
  • Article   17.3 Institutional mechanism 17
  • Article   17.4 Consultations 17
  • Article   17.5 Cooperation 17
  • Article   17.6 Dispute settlement 17
  • Chapter   18 Environment 17
  • Article   18.1 Levels of protection 17
  • Article   18.2 Multilateral environmental agreements 17
  • Article   18.3 Application and enforcement of environmental laws 17
  • Article   18.4 Trade favouring environment 17
  • Article   18.5 Procedural guarantees 17
  • Article   18.6 Institutional mechanism 17
  • Article   18.7 Consultations 17
  • Article   18.8 Cooperation 17
  • Article   18.9 Dispute settlement 17
  • Chapter   19 Transparency 17
  • Article   19 Publication 17
  • Article   19.2 Provision of information 17
  • Article   19 Administrative proceedings 17
  • Article   19.4 Review and appeal 17
  • Article   19.5 Definitions 17
  • Chapter   20 Dispute settlement 17
  • Article   20.1 Cooperation 17
  • Article   20.2 Scope 17
  • Article   20.3 Contact points 17
  • Article   20.4 Choice of forum 17
  • Article   20.5 Rules of interpretation 17
  • Article   20.6 Consultations 17
  • Article   20.7 Referral to the joint committee 17
  • Article   20.8 Establishment of panel 17
  • Article   20.9 Functions of panels 17
  • Article   20.10 Rules of Procedure 18
  • Article   20.11 Panel Report 18
  • Article   20.12 Suspension and Termination of Proceedings 18
  • Article   20.13 Implementation of the Final Report 18
  • Article   20.14 Non-implementation 18
  • Article   20.15 Compliance Review 18
  • Article   20.16 Private Rights 18
  • Article   20.17 Expenses 18
  • Article   20.18 Time Periods 18
  • ANNEX 20-A  Code of conduct 18
  • ANNEX 20-B  Model rules of procedure 18
  • Attachment to annex 20-b model rules of procedure for dispute settlement panel proceedings 18
  • Chapter   21 Institutional Provisions 18
  • Article   21.1 Contact Points 19
  • Article   21.2 Cooperation 19
  • Article   21.3 Joint Committee 19
  • Article   21.4 Committees and Working Groups 19
  • Article   21.5 Decision-making 19
  • ANNEX 21-A  Committees and working groups 19
  • Chapter   22 General Provisions and Exceptions 19
  • Article   22.1 General Exceptions 19
  • Article   22.2 Essential Security 19
  • Article   22.3 Taxation 19
  • Article   22.4 Disclosure of Information 19
  • Article   22.5 Confidentiality 19
  • Chapter   23 Final Provisions 19
  • Article   23.1 Annexes, Appendices and Footnotes 19
  • Article   23.2 Entry Into Force 19
  • Article   23.3 Amendments 19
  • Article   23.4 Termination 19
  • Article   23.5 Authentic Text 19
  • I  Annex 19
  • Explanatory notes 19
  • Schedule of australia 19
  • Schedule of korea 23
  • II  Annex 27
  • Explanatory notes 27
  • Schedule of australia 27
  • Schedule of korea 30
  • III  Annex 34
  • Schedule of australia 34
  • Section   A Financial services sector 34
  • Section   B Financial services sector 34
  • Schedule of korea 34
  • Section   A Financial services 34
  • Section   B Financial services 35
  • Side letters 36
  • Services and investment korea to australia 36
  • Services and investment australia to korea 36
  • Uncitral transparency rules korea to australia 36
  • Uncitral transparency rules australia to korea 36