Provisions on Trade in Services in Trade and Integration Agreements in the Western Hemisphere
Part I: Sub-regional Trade and Integration Agreements
VIII. Transparency Requirements: A. Publication
WTO/GATS
Article III - Transparency
Each Member shall publish promptly all relevant measures of general application, which pertain to or affect the operation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
NAFTA
PART SEVEN, ADMINISTRATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS; Chapter Eighteen: Publication, Notification and Administration of Laws
Article 1802: Publication
Each Party shall ensure that its laws, regulations, procedures and administrative rulings of general application respecting any matters covered by this Agreement are promptly published or otherwise made available in such a manner as to enable interested persons and Parties to become acquainted with them.
Group of Three
Chapter X: General Principles on Trade in Services, Article 10-03: Transparency
Each Party will promptly publish, except in emergency situations, at the latest on the date of their entry into force, all laws, regulations and relevant administrative guidelines and decisions, resolutions or measures of general application, which pertain to or affect the operation of this chapter, and which have been issued by governmental institutions of a Party or by a non-governmental normative entity of the same Party.
When the publication of the information referred to in paragraph 1 is not feasible or practical, it shall be made available to the public in another way.
CACM
CARICOM
Andean Community
Central America/Dominican Republic
Mercosur
Bolivia/Mercosur
Chile/Mercosur
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