Impact Study: UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals

Revisiting the relationship between trade and cultural cooperation, the CARIFORUM-EU EPA includes improved market access and preferential treatment for cultural services and cultural services providers through two innovative modalities (see Annexes): ◗ ◗ improved market access for entertainment services provided by CARIFORUM States, as detailed in Title II “Investment, Trade in Services and E-commerce” ◗ ◗ a dedicated Protocol on Cultural Cooperation Granting market access for entertainment services For the first time, the EU has committed to significantly opening its entertainment sector to services and service suppliers from CARIFORUM States. The entertainment sector is typically interpreted to include all entertainment services other than audiovisual - such as theatrical productions, musical groups, bands and orchestra entertainment services; services provided by authors, composers, sculptors, entertainers and other individual artists; circus, amusement park and similar attraction services, ballroom, discotheque and dance instruction services; and other entertainment services. The concessions in the entertainment sector vary depending on the ‘mode of supply’, which refers to methods of providing a service 12 .

18 Culture in the CARIFORUM-EU EPA

12. Different modes of supply for entertainment services are covered in the EPA: cross- border supply of services (mode 1), commercial presence (mode 3), and temporary presence of natural persons for business purposes (mode 4).