(a)
(b)
national governments, local governments or local authorities;
and
non‐governmental bodies in the exercise of powers
delegated by national governments, local governments or
local authorities.
For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Partner States shall
progressively remove existing restrictions and shall not introduce
any new restrictions on the provision of services in the Partner
States, by nationals of other Partner States except as otherwise
provided in this Protocol.
5.
6.
Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Protocol, a person
providing a service may, in order to provide the service, temporarily
engage in activities related to the service in the Partner State,
where the service is to be supplied, under the same conditions as
are applicable to the nationals of the Partner State.
7.
For the purposes of this Part “services” includes:
(a)
(b)
services in any sector except services supplied in the
exercise of governmental authority which are not provided
on a commercial basis or in competition with one or more
service suppliers;
services normally provided for remuneration, in so far as they
are not governed by the provisions relating to free movement
of goods, capital and persons.
ARTICLE 17
National Treatment
1.
Each Partner State shall accord to services and service suppliers of
other Partner States, treatment not less favourable than that
accorded to similar services and service suppliers of the Partner
State.
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