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

Article 77 National treatment 1. In the sectors where market access commitments are inscribed in Annex IV, and subject to any conditions and qualifications set out therein, the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall grant to services and service suppliers of the other Party, in respect of all measures affecting the cross-border supply of services, treatment no less favourable than that they accord to their own like services and services suppliers. requirement of paragraph 1 by according to services and service suppliers of the other Party, either formally identical treatment or formally different treatment to that they accord to their own like services and service suppliers. 3. Formally identical or formally different treatment shall be considered to be less favourable if it modifies the conditions of competition in favour of services or service suppliers of the EC Party or of the Signatory CARIFORUM States compared to like services or service suppliers of the other Party. 4. Specific commitments assumed under this Article shall not be construed to require the EC Party or the Signatory CARIFORUM States to compensate for inherent competitive disadvantages which result from the foreign character of the relevant services or services suppliers Article 78 Lists of commitments The sectors liberalised by the EC Party and by the Signatory CARIFORUM States pursuant to this Chapter and, by means 2. The EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States may meet the

of reservations, the market access and national treatment limitations applicable to services and services suppliers of the other Party in those sectors are set out in lists of commitments included in Annex IV. Article 79 Most-favoured-nation treatment 1. With respect to any measure affecting cross-border supply of services covered by this Chapter, (a) the EC Party shall accord to services and services suppliers of the Signatory CARIFORUM States a treatment no less favourable than the most favourable treatment applicable to like services and services suppliers of any third country with whom it concludes an economic integration agreement after the signature of this Agreement; (b) the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall accord to the services and services suppliers of the EC Party a treatment no less favourable than the most favourable treatment applicable to like services and services suppliers of any major trading economy with whom they conclude an economic integration agreement after the signature of this Agreement. 2. When a Party or a Signatory CARIFORUM State concludes a regional economic integration agreement creating an internal market or requiring the parties thereto to significantly approximate their legislation with a view to removing non-discriminatory obstacles to trade in services, the treatment that such Party or Signatory CARIFORUM State grants to services and services suppliers of third countries in sectors subject to the internal market or to the

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Culture in the CARIFORUM-EU EPA