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Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations in 1995, the temporary movement of natural persons in the context of international service supply (Mode 4 under the General Agreement on Trade in Services — GATS) has formed an integral part of international trade policy. Arguably, the most important outcome of the Uruguay Round was the inclusion of third-generation trade barriers in the newly created World Trade Organization (WTO) framework. For the first time, behind the border policy measures such as the regulation of the supply of services, intellectual property and agricultural domestic support became subject to serious negotiations in a multilateral framework. As a result of the Uruguay Round, WTO Members agreed to the possibility of taking legally binding commitments on the liberalization of the international supply of services, including on the temporary movement of natural persons. With the applicable WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), the GATS can be considered a multilaterally agreed framework to provide predictable and legally enforceable conditions of international service supply, irrespective of the means (cross-border or physical presence) through which the service is supplied.
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Schmitz, J. (2015). The Temporary Movement of Natural Persons in the Context of Trade in Services: EU Trade Policy under Mode 4 (WTO/GATS). In: Panizzon, M., Zürcher, G., Fornalé, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352217_16
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