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The services applicable to these roles may be supplied by a single contractor or separate contractors.

Following the GATS services sectoral classification, distribution services include commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising.

In terms of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), health services include medical and dental services services provided by midwives, nurses, physiotherapists and para medical personnel hospital services and other human health services.

GATS commitments

If it is perceived that translation cannot be provided internally within a reasonable time frame, there should be recourse to contractual translation services through the Contractual Translation Unit of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

The outsourcing of payroll processing could be either internal within the United Nations system where some organizations would act as service providers for others, or external in which some private or public service providers would deliver payroll processing services.

8. Experts also observed that, despite their limitations, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments contained some market access opportunities in relation to health services, including on movement of persons.

Meeting servicing (including provision of interpretation, local support staff, and overall supervision of meeting arrangements)

The increase of 731,000 under other services relates to the subcontracting to a service company of 56 individual contractors from April 2006.

A commitment by Switzerland includes market access for professionals engaged in engineering services, consultancy services related to installation of computer hardware, and software implementation services.

The service activities in the EC Schedule of Commitments include engineering services integrated engineering services computer and related services technical testing and analysis services construction services, site investigation work architectural services, urban planning and landscape architectural services management and consulting services advertising research and development services accounting services and entertainment services.

This has forced the Fund to rely on external contractors to provide general system maintenance.

(c) Advisory services, including hotlines and helpdesks

It includes a summary report of the Voorburg Group on Service Statistics and information on progress with the proposed Intersecretariat Working Group on Services.

(b) Information, communications and other services, including electronic services and emergency services.

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4. Sub contracting services

A. Air charter services

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was adopted in 1994 and is the first trade agreement to cover investment in services.44 It provides a legal framework for trade in services, defined to cover a range of areas, including investment, financial services, communications, transportation, education, energy, water and movement of persons.

c This number includes the total number of individuals served through the Disability Programme.

For the three categories of services providers under horizontal commitments, i.e. business visitors, intra corporate transferees and professionals on a service contract, a general business visa could be issued to the employer or business contact based on the country s horizontal GATS commitments.

The total third party service provider costs of 31,750,000 consist of the following

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Contractual services (laundry)

RTA negotiations following a negative list approach, which automatically includes new services, may result in developing countries binding their market opening at a stage that is more liberal than their multilateral GATS commitments.

1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

Total meeting services requirements

Trinidad and Tobago does not have any commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on distribution services, and determination of the type of commitments that could be made would require that appropriate impact studies be carried out.

Contractual services (total costs)

In the area of global management for logistical support, greater emphasis was being placed on the use of subcontractors in order to reduce the cost of certain services and to take advantage of opportunities arising from increased competition between suppliers and service providers, and procedures for the regular renegotiation of recurrent service contracts were being introduced.

Total General Services requirements

5. It is necessary for user offices to clearly distinguish the services required from consultants and individual contractors.

GATS commitments on quot life, accident and health insurance services quot are most detailed under the commercial presence mode.

VIII. Contractual services requirements for individual contractors

Major Programme G provides a number of specific programmes to meet the full range of administrative needs of UNIDO, including human resource management, financial services, procurement and logistical services (formerly referred to as General Services), legal services, and information and knowledge management, as well as the overall direction and management of these services.

The term expenditure designates total obligations incurred, whether liquidated or unliquidated

Additional services for six regional headquarters.

Rapid progress must also be made to improve the development potential of trade in services by liberalizing the temporary supply of labour services (mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and cross border supply of services via outsourcing and offshoring (mode 1).

Some contractors have been unable to meet their deadlines for the delivery of goods and services, including construction materials and the preparation of tented camps.

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

(d) Institutional contractors corporate consultants are individuals or groups of individuals whose services are required temporarily by the Organization and obtained under a contract entered into directly with the institution by which they are employed or subcontracted.

Many Governments subsidize service sectors, including those serving the public good.

UN meeting services (comprising translation, interpretation, meeting and documents services)