On Thursday 23 May in Paris, on the margins of the OECD ministerial meeting, 59 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) engaged in negotiations on the Services Domestic Regulation.
In a joint statement, they also noted the additional efforts that will be needed in these negotiations before the next WTO Ministerial Conference in June 2020 in Kazakhstan.
Ongoing WTO negotiations on the domestic regulation of services aim to improve transparency and streamline authorisation procedures...