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The EPA & Market Access
The ?rst key element of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) from the perspective of the cultural sector is the level of trade liberalization between the CARIFORUM countries and the EU where for the ?rst time the EU has made a comprehensive offer in the liberalization of entertainment services (CPC 9619) other than audio-visual services (see Box 1). The rules of the Services and Investment chapter and the general provisions of the EPA govern the liberalization of the entertainment and cultural services. Under the EPA, CARIFORUM countries secured market access commitments by 27 European states, with some limitations in two states, Germany and Austria. While these commitments take effect immediately for the EC-15, these apply as of 1 January 2011for the EC-10 and as of 1 January 2014 for Bulgaria and Romania. Under Mode 4 provisions artists, cultural practitioners and professionals will enjoy the same basis for entry as business professionals once they are CSS or registered businesses. For entertainment and cultural services, the following conditions apply for contractual service suppliers: 1. The natural persons are engaged in the supply of a service on a temporary basis as employees of a juridical person (?rm or company), which has obtained a service contract for a period not exceeding 12 months. The natural persons entering the other Party should be offering such services as an employee of the juridical person supplying the services for at least the year immediately preceding the date of submission of an application for entry into the other Party. In addition, the natural persons must possess, at the date of submission of an application for entry into the other Party, at least three years professional experience in the sector of activity which is the subject of the contract. The natural person shall not receive remuneration for the provision of services other than the remuneration paid by the contractual service supplier during its stay in the other Party. The temporary entry and stay of natural persons within the Party concerned shall be for a cumulative period of not more than six months or, in the case of Luxembourg, 25 weeks, in any twelve month period or for the duration of the contract, whatever is less. Access accorded under the provisions of this Article relates only to the service activity which is the subject of the contract; it does not confer entitlement to exercise the professional title of the Party where the service is provided. The number of persons covered by the service contract shall not be larger than necessary to ful?ll the contract, as it may be decided by the laws, regulations and requirements of the European Community and the Member State where the service is supplied.
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