Professional paper
Impact of the WTO’s general agreement on trade in services on public libraries
Irena Kranjec
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the last few years, the library community has been following the work of World’s
Trade Organization (WTO) and its General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with
the great interest and concern. The paper presents questions related to GATS that are of
special interest to the librarians and that they should pay good attention to in the future: definiton of services excluded from GATS, range and classification of services, and unadequate trancparancy of WTO negotiation processes concerning the GATS.
Keywords
public libraries; World’s Trade Organization; General Agreement on Trade in Services
Hrčak ID:
165711
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2006.
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