The cross-border supply of entertainment services, including theatre, live bands, circus and discotheque services.
(c) Gambling and betting services (CPC 96492)
The supply of gambling activities, which involve wagering a stake with pecuniary value in games of chance, including in particular lotteries, scratch cards, gambling services offered in casinos, gambling arcades or licensed premises, betting services, bingo services and gambling services operated by and for the benefit of charities or non-profit-making organisations.
Reservation No. 12 – Transport services and auxiliary transport services
Sector: Transport services
Type of reservation:
Market Access
Local Presence
National Treatment
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
Performance Requirements
Senior Management and Boards of Directors
Section:
Investment Liberalisation and Cross-Border Trade in Services
Description:
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the following:
(a) Maritime transport – any other commercial activity undertaken from a ship
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Performance Requirements and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment:
The supply of maritime cabotage services. Maritime cabotage services cover:
(i) transportation of passengers or goods between a port or point located in the United Kingdom and another port or point located in the United Kingdom, including on its continental shelf as provided in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; and
(ii) traffic originating and terminating in the same port or point located in the United Kingdom.
For greater certainty, this reservation applies to related traffic in support of offshore activities. This reservation does not apply to feeder services or to repositioning of owned or leased empty containers that are not being carried as cargo against payment.
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors, Performance Requirements and Cross- Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
The nationality of the crew on a seagoing or non-seagoing vessel which is:
(i) flying the flag of the United Kingdom; or
(ii) flying the flag of any other country, if that vessel undertakes maritime transport services:
- between places in the United Kingdom or between the United Kingdom and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey or the Isle of Man; or
- on a voyage which begins and ends at the same place in the United Kingdom and on which the vessel calls at no place outside the United Kingdom.
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors:
For the purpose of registering a vessel and operating a fleet under the flag of the United Kingdom (all commercial marine activity undertaken from a seagoing ship, including fishing, aquaculture, and services incidental to fishing; international passenger and freight transportation (CPC 721); and services auxiliary to maritime transport). This reservation does not apply to legal persons incorporated in the United Kingdom and having an effective and continuous link to its economy.
(b) Auxiliary services to maritime transport
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
The supply of pilotage and berthing services. For greater certainty, regardless of the criteria which may apply to the registration of ships in the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom reserves the right to require that only ships registered on the national register of the United Kingdom may provide pilotage and berthing services (CPC 7452).
(c) Inland waterways transport and auxiliary services to inland waterways transport
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors, Performance Requirements and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, National Treatment, Local Presence, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment:
Inland waterways passenger and freight transportation (CPC 722); and services auxiliary to inland waterways transportation.
For greater certainty, this reservation also covers the supply of cabotage transport on inland waterways (CPC 722).
For greater certainty, this reservation does not apply to the inland waterways leg of the journey of a seagoing vessel where that journey is undertaken for the purpose of supplying international maritime transport services.
(d) Rail transport and auxiliary services to rail transport
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
Railway passenger and freight transportation (CPC 711).
(e) Road transport (passenger transportation, freight transportation, international truck transport services) and services auxiliary to road transport
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
(i) to require establishment and to limit the cross-border supply of road transport services (CPC 712).
(ii) an economic needs test may apply to taxi services in the United Kingdom setting a limit on the number of service suppliers. Main criterion: Local demand as provided in applicable laws (CPC 71221).
Existing measures:
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator and repealing Council Directive 96/26/EC, as retained in the law of the United Kingdom by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and as amended by the Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019;
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market, as retained in the law of the United Kingdom by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and as amended by the Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; and
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, as retained in the law of the United Kingdom by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and as amended by the Common Rules for Access to the International Market for Coach and Bus Services (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
(f) Space transport and rental of space craft
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Performance Requirements, Senior Management and Boards of Directors and Cross- Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
Transportation services via space and the rental of space craft (CPC 733, part of 734).
(g) Most-Favoured-Nation exemptions
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Most-Favoured-Nation-Treatment:
(i) Road and rail transport
To accord differential treatment to a country pursuant to existing or future bilateral agreements relating to international road haulage (including combined transport – road or rail) and passenger transport, concluded between the United Kingdom and a third country (CPC 7111, 7112, 7121, 7122, 7123). That treatment may:
- reserve or limit the supply of the relevant transport services between the contracting parties or across the territory of the contracting parties to vehicles registered in each contracting party; or
- provide for tax exemptions for such vehicles.
(ii) Air transport - Services auxiliary to air transport
According differential treatment to a third country pursuant to existing or future bilateral agreements relating to ground-handling services.
Reservation No. 13 – Fishing and water
Sector: Fishing, aquaculture, services incidental to fishing; collection, purification and distribution of water
Industry classification:
ISIC Rev. 3.1 0501, 0502, CPC 882, ISIC Rev. 3.1 41
Type of reservation:
Market Access
Local Presence
National Treatment
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
Performance Requirements
Senior Management and Boards of Directors
Section:
Investment Liberalisation and Cross-Border Trade in Services
Description:
(a) Fishing, aquaculture and services incidental to fishing (ISIC Rev. 3.1 0501, 0502, CPC 882)
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Senior Management and Boards of Directors, Performance Requirements, Most- Favoured-Nation treatment and Cross-Border Trade in Services – Market Access, National treatment, Local Presence, Most-Favoured-Nation treatment:
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure, in particular within the framework fisheries policy of the United Kingdom, and of fishing agreements with a third country, with respect to access to and use of the biological resources and fishing grounds situated in the maritime waters coming under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure (i) to the effect that the fishing activity of fishing vessels flying its flag must have an economic link (to the extent and according to the terms specified in the measure) with the United Kingdom and (ii) relating to fishing vessels’ eligibility to use UK fishing
opportunities by reference to the nationality of the owner or owners of vessels or place of incorporation of a company.
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure:
(i) regulating the landing of catches performed in the quotas allocated to vessels of an EEA EFTA State or of a designated third country in ports of the United Kingdom;
(ii) determining a minimum size for a company in order to preserve both artisanal and coastal fishing vessels;
(iii) according differential treatment pursuant to existing or future international agreements relating to fisheries;
(iv) with regard to the nationality of the crew of a fishing vessel flying the flag of the United Kingdom;
(v) with regard to the establishment of marine or inland aquaculture facilities.
(b) Collection, purification and distribution of water
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, National Treatment, Cross Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Local Presence, National Treatment:
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to activities including services relating to the collection, purification and distribution of water to household, industrial, commercial or other users, including the supply of drinking water and water management.
Reservation No. 14 – Energy related activities
Sector: Production of energy and related services
Industry classification:
ISIC Rev. 3.1 401, 402, CPC 7131, CPC 887 (other than advisory and consulting services).
Type of reservation:
Market Access
Local Presence
National Treatment
Performance Requirements
Senior Management and Boards of Directors
Section:
Investment Liberalisation and Cross-Border Trade in Services
Description:
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure, where the United Kingdom permits foreign ownership of a gas or electricity transmission system, or an oil and gas pipeline transport system, with respect to enterprises of the EEA EFTA States controlled by natural persons or enterprises of a third country which accounts for more than five per cent of the oil, natural gas or electricity imports of the United Kingdom, in order to guarantee the security of the energy supply of the United Kingdom. This reservation does not apply to advisory and consultancy services provided as services incidental to energy distribution.
Reservation No. 15 – Other services not included elsewhere
Sector: Other services not included elsewhere
Type of reservation:
Market Access
Local Presence
National Treatment
Performance Requirements
Senior Management and Boards of Directors
Section:
Investment Liberalisation and Cross-Border Trade in Services
Description:
The United Kingdom reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the provision of new services other than those classified in the CPC.
Schedule of Iceland
List of reservations:
Reservation No.1 - All Sectors
Reservation No. 2 - Water
Reservation No.3 - Business Services (Professional Services)
Reservation No. 4 - Other Business Services
Reservation No. 5 - Communication Services
Reservation No. 6 - Distribution Services
Reservation No. 7 - Production, Monitoring, Transmission, Trade and Sales of Electricity
Reservation No. 8 - Education Services
Reservation No. 9 - Environmental Services
Reservation No. 10 - Financial Services
Reservation No. 11 - Health Related and Social Services
Reservation No. 12 - Recreational, Cultural and Sporting Services
Reservation No. 13 - Transport Services (Maritime Transport Services, Freight and Passenger Transportation)
Reservation No. 14 – Transport Services (Internal Waterway Transport Services, Space Services, Rail Transport Services)
Reservation No.15 – New Services
1. Sector: All Sectors
Type of reservation: Article 3.6 (Market Access) Article 3.7 (National Treatment) Article 3.8 (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) Article 3.10 (Performance Requirements) Article 3.14 (Market Access) Article 3.15 (Local Presence) Article 3.16 (National Treatment) Article 3.17 (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment)
Description: a) Public Utilities
With respect to Investment Liberalisation – Market Access, Performance Requirements, and Cross- Border Trade in Services – Market Access, Iceland reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to public utilities and public services to the extent that they are established or maintained for public purposes, such as social welfare, science and research, public training, childcare, public housing and public transport.
b) Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment for Highly Integrated Trade Agreements
Iceland reserves the right to accord differential treatment to Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement, Contracting Parties to the EFTA Convention and the Faroe Islands.
Iceland reserves the right to accord differential treatment to a country pursuant to any existing or future bilateral or multilateral agreement which:
(i) creates an internal market in services and investment;
(ii) grants the right of establishment; or
(iii) requires the approximation of legislation in one or more economic sectors.
An internal market on services and investment means an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of services, capital and persons is ensured.
The right of establishment means an obligation to abolish in substance all barriers to establishment among the parties to the regional economic integration agreement by the entry into force of that agreement. The right of establishment shall include the right of nationals of the parties to the regional economic integration agreement to set up and operate enterprises under the same conditions provided for nationals under the law of the country where such establishment takes place.
The approximation of legislation means:
(i) the alignment of the legislation of one or more of the parties to the regional economic integration agreement with the legislation of the other party or parties to that agreement; or