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23 AVRIL 1998. - Act enacting the Second Protocol annexed to the General Agreement on Trade in Services, done at Geneva on 6 October 1995 (1)

ALBERT II, King of the Belgians,
To all, present and to come, Hi.
The Chambers adopted and We sanction the following:
Article 1^er. This Act regulates a matter referred to in Article 77 of the Constitution.
Art. 2. The Second Protocol annexed to the General Agreement on Trade in Services, done at Geneva on 6 October 1995, will come out of its full effect.
Promulgate this law, order that it be clothed with the seal of the State and published the Belgian Monitor.
Given at Châteauneuf-de-Grasse on 23 April 1998.
ALBERT
By the King:
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
E. DERYCKE
Minister of Foreign Trade,
Ph. MAYSTADT
Seal of the state seal:
Minister of Justice,
T. VAN PARYS
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Note
(1) Session 1997-1998.
Senate:
Documents. - Bill tabled on 23 December 1997, No. 1-833/1. - Report, no. 1-833/2. - Text adopted in Commission No. 1-833/3.
Annales parliamentarians. - Discussion, meeting of 19 February 1998. - Vote, meeting of 19 February 1998.
Chamber of Directors:
Documents. - Project transmitted by the Senate, No. 1443/1. - Text adopted in plenary and subject to Royal Assent, No. 1443/2.
Annales parliamentarians. - Discussion, meeting of March 18, 1998. - Vote, meeting of 19 March 1998.

SECOND PROTOCOL ANNEX AGAINST THE GENERAL ACCORD ON THE COMMERCE OF SERVICES
Members of the World Trade Organization (hereinafter referred to as the "WTO") whose Lists of Specific Commitments and Lists of Exemptions of Obligations set out in Article II of the General Agreement on Trade in Financial Services are annexed to this Protocol (hereinafter referred to as the "Members concerned"),
Having conducted negotiations in accordance with the provisions of the Ministerial Decision on Financial Services adopted in Marrakech on 15 April 1994,
In light of the Second Annex on Financial Services, and the Decision on the Application of this Annex adopted by the Trade in Services Board on 30 June 1995,
Consistent with the following provisions:
1. A List of Specific Commitments and a List of Exemptions from the obligations set out in Article II, relating to financial services annexed to this Protocol for a Member, shall replace, at the entry into force of this Protocol for that Member, sections relating to the financial services of the List of Specific Commitments and the List of Exemptions from the obligations set out in Article II of that Member.
2. This protocol will be open to the acceptance, by signature or otherwise, of the Members concerned until 30 June 1996.
3. This Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the date of its acceptance by all Members concerned. If it has not been accepted by all Members concerned by 1 July 1996, Members who have accepted it before that date may, within 30 days after that date, make a decision regarding its entry into force.
4. This protocol will be deposited with the Director General of the WTO. The Director-General of the WTO shall give each WTO Member a certified true copy of this Protocol and notifications of acceptances of the said Protocol in accordance with paragraph 3.
5. This Protocol shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Done in Geneva, on six October, nine hundred and ninety-five, in a single copy, in French, English and Spanish, the three texts being equally authentic, unless otherwise provided in the Lists annexed to this Protocol.

SECOND PROTOCOL ANNEX TO THE GENERAL CORD ON THE COMMERCE OF SERVICES, COMMITTED ON 6 OCTOBER 1995
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This protocol entered into force for Belgium on 1 September 1998.
The publication of the annexes will be later.