Keywords
General Agreement on Trade in Services
Transmission and distribution of electricity
Natural monopoly
Third party access
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Abstract
This document is the result of an investigation about the services related to the electric industry and how these were regulated in the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS.
To write this article it was necessary to analyze the provision of the GATS, the commitments of the GATS members in energy services and some articles related to the topic. The porpoise of this article is to analyze how the energy services were regulated in the GATS, in particular, the distribution and transmission of electric power. Furthermore, the article tries to establish whether the particularities of the transmission and distribution services could lead to the introduction of additional disciplines in the GATS.
The conclusion of this article is that the energy services, in particular, those related to the electric industry do not have and adequate regulation in the multilateral level.
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