Council for Trade in Services - Working Party on Domestic Regulation - Special Session - Communication from Canada - Transparency Template - Canada's Revised Horizontal Mode 4 Offer

World Trade Organization TN/S/W/42 S/WPDR/W/33 25 May 2005 (05-2106) Council for Trade in Services Special Session Working Party on Domestic Regulation Original: English COMMUNICATION FROM CANADA Transparency Template - Canada’s Revised Horizontal Mode 4 Offer The following communication, dated 20 May 2005, from the delegation of Canada is being circulated to the Members of the Council for Trade in Services and the Working Party on Domestic Regulation. _______________ Few WTO Members would dispute that many existing horizontal mode 4 commitments are not sufficiently transparent. In that regard, Canada has been promoting the transparency of horizontal mode 4 commitments. Some Members are aware that, as a way of improving the understanding of mode 4 commitments, Canada has proposed that each Member provide voluntarily - and separate from its specific commitments - all relevant information sources for each of its commitments: i.e., links to