The European Commission has proposed a simplified procedure that will finally allow it to update itself on the amendment of its schedules of commitments under Article XXI of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
This proposal, published on 8 November, is the first since 1994, when the European Union had only 12 Member States.
The 13 countries that have since joined the Union have kept their original schedules, with a series of...