"Service supplier'' means any natural or juridical person of a State Party that supplies a service; "State Party'' means a Member State that has ratified or acceded to this Protocol; "Subsidiary" means a juridical person that is effectively controlled by another juridical person; "Territory" means the geographical area of a State Party; "Third Country" means a country other than a State Party; "TNF-Services" means Trade Negotiating Forum for Services; "Treaty" refers to the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community. 2. All other terms relating to any matter directly regulated by this Protocol not defined herewith are deemed to have the same meaning as in the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). ARTICLE 2 Objectives The objectives of this Protocol are to: 1. progressively liberalise intra-regional trade in services on the basis of equity, balance and mutual benefit with the objective of achieving the elimination of substantially all discrimination between State Parties and a liberal trading framework for trade in services with a..view to creating a single market for trade in services; 2. promote sustainable economic growth and development, thereby raising the standard and quality of life of the people of Southern Africa, supporting the socially disadvantaged and alleviating poverty through regional integration in the area of services; 3. enhance economic development, diversification, local, regional and foreign investment in the services economies of the Region; 4. ensure consistency between liberalisation of trade in services and the various Protocols in specific services sectors; 5. pursue services trade liberalisation, while fully preserving the right to regulate and to introduce new regulations; and 4