Ⅵ. Article ⅩⅥ of the GATS: Market Access
214.Article ⅩⅥ of the GATS sets out specific obligations for Members that apply insofar as a Member has undertaken “specific market access commitments” in its Schedule. The first paragraph of Article ⅩⅥ obliges Members to accord services and service suppliers of other Members “no less favorable treatment than that provided for under the terms, limitations and conditions agreed and specified in its Schedule.” The second paragraph of Article ⅩⅥ defines, in six sub-paragraphs, measures that a Member, having undertaken a specific commitment, is not to adopt or maintain, “unless otherwise specified in its Schedule”. The first four sub-paragraphs concern quantitative limitations on market access; the fifth sub-paragraph covers measures that restrict or require specific types of legal entity or joint venture through which a service supplier may supply a service; and the sixth sub-paragraph identifies limitations on the participation of foreign capital.