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

a bona fide contract (other than through an agency as defined by CPC 872) to supply services with a final consumer in the latter Party requiring the presence on a temporary basis of its employees in that Party in order to fulfil the contract to provide services; (e) “independent professionals”means natural persons of the EC Party or of the Signatory CARIFORUM States engaged in the supply of a service and established as self-employed in the territory of that EC Party or Signatory CARIFORUM State who have no commercial presence in the territory of the other Party and who have concluded a bona fide contract (other than through an agency as defined by CPC 872) to supply services with a final consumer in the latter Party requiring their presence on a temporary basis in that Party in order to fulfil the contract to provide services 15 ; (f) “qualifications”means diplomas, certificates and other evidence (of formal qualification) issued by an authority designated pursuant to legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions and certifying successful completion of professional training. Article 81 Key personnel and graduate trainees 1. For every sector liberalised in accordance with Chapter 2 of this Title and subject to any reservations listed in Annex IV, the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall allow investors of the other Party to employ in their commercial presences natural persons of that other Party provided that such employees are key personnel

or graduate trainees as defined in Article 80. The temporary entry and stay of key personnel and graduate trainees shall be for a period of up to three years for intra-corporate transfers, 90 days in any 12-month period for business visitors, and one year for graduate trainees. 2. For every sector liberalised in accordance with Chapter 2 of this Title, the measures which the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall not maintain or adopt either on the basis of a regional subdivision or on the basis of their entire territory, unless otherwise specified in Annex IV, are defined as limitations on the total number of natural persons that an investor may employ as key personnel and graduate trainees in a specific sector in the form of numerical quotas or a requirement of an economic needs test and as discriminatory limitations. Article 82 Business services sellers For every sector liberalised in accordance with Chapters 2 or 3 of this Title and subject to any reservations listed in Annex IV the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall allow the temporary entry and stay of business services sellers for a period of up to 90 days in any 12-month period. Article 83 Contractual services suppliers and independent professionals 1. The EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM States reaffirm their respective obligations arising from their commitments under the GATS as regards the entry and temporary stay of contractual services suppliers and independent professionals. 2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, the EC Party shall allow the supply of services

15. The service contract referred to under ((d) and ((e) shall comply with the laws, regulations and requirements of the Party or Signatory CARIFORUM States where the contract is executed.

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