SERVICES 2000 COLLECTIVE ACTION PLAN

All Sectors other than Energy, Telecommunications, Tourism, and Transportation
Collective Action	Steps to Implement	Time Frame
a. Review and exchange information on all trade and investment in services arrangements within APEC and study common elements.	Develop the Menu of Options.	Ongoing (2000 – 2002)
b. Gather and analyze information on the services section contained within the Individual Action Plans.	Assist the development of the service chapter template for Prototype IAP. Promote the use of developed template for service IAP reporting. Develop the Menu of Options.	Completed Ongoing Ongoing (2000-2002)
c. Identification of measures affecting trade and investment in all service sectors.	Carry out a project on Identification of Measures Affecting Trade and Investment in Education Services. Member economies to volunteer papers and studies in this area and consider cases of “best practices.” Develop the Menu of Options. Implement the Policy Framework.	Completed Ongoing Ongoing (2000-2002). Ongoing.
d. Compile information on services trade statistics.	Organize a Seminar of Statistical Reporting on Service Trade to examine methodological problems in the collection and use of service trade statistics as well as the different tools for gathering and analyzing of these statistics.	Completed
e. To improve understanding of the impact of liberalization of services.	Member economies to present cases of their experiences on a voluntary basis aiming to generate momentum for services liberalization in light of perceived benefit of such process. Undertake a Study on Service Trade Liberalization to Developing Economies in APEC region.	Ongoing. Proposal currently under review and expected to be approved in 2001.
f. Study and carry out work concerning the development and adoption of common professional standards, in conjunction with professional accreditation bodies and needed legislative measures.	Implement the Policy Framework. Develop the Menu of Options.	Ongoing. Ongoing (2000-2002).
g. Pursuant to SOM instructions, GOS will provide support to the ongoing EVSL initiatives.	Conduct initial assessment on service component of the environment EVSL. Continue monitoring the progress of the WTO work in this area and provide assistance where the need arises.	Completed Ongoing
h. Enhance transparency in service sectors.	Improve the dissemination of GOS activities-related information by better organizing the contents of the existing GOS web page on the APEC Secretariat website and providing links to service-related websites.	Completed
i. Continue discussion of issues related to possible APEC principles or guidelines that may be necessary to achieve free and open trade and investment in this area.	Provide inputs in the area of service facilitation to the development of APEC Trade Facilitation Principles: · Initial inputs. · Organize workshops on service trade facilitation to generate further inputs. Implement the Policy Framework.	Completed The first is scheduled for September 2000.
j. Monitor, and where possible and appropriate, contribute to the WTO’s work on services.	Monitor the WTO work on environmental services. Conduct a Study on possible Economic and Technical Cooperation in the Field of Trade in Services to foster capacity building for developing member economies to compete in global service market and consequently enhance their participation in WTO work on services. Case studies and best practice in innovation in services to help build capacity in developing economies. Implement the Policy Framework.	Ongoing. Completed Ongoing. Ongoing.

Note: In addition to the above existing collective actions, two important collective actions were also undertaken in 2000.

1. APEC Policy Framework for Work on Services:

GOS has endeavored to develop the Policy Framework since 1999 aiming to strengthen APEC's work on services trade. The Framework takes into account the cross-cutting nature of service work and build up a mechanism to better coordinate the work of service-related fora. It also includes all aspects of work related to liberalization, facilitation and ECOTECH of service trade and investment in the region. The Framework is due for CTI’s endorsement in September 2000. A pilot workshop to implement the Framework aiming at service trade facilitation is also scheduled for September 2000.

2. Menu of Options for Voluntary Liberalization, Facilitation, and Promotion of Economic and Technical Cooperation in Service Trade and Investment:

The Menu of Options is developed under the Policy Framework. It represents a better organized framework for GOS’ future work and provides non-binding, flexible and broad options for individual member economies to adopt in advancing their service work on three pillars. The development of the Menu encompasses three phases: Phase I to be completed in 2000, Phase II in 2001, and Phase III in 2002.