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Another key issue identi?ed was the importance of appropriate business registers. These could be built from professional associations with the use of additional sources such as parish associations, big companies supporting cultural events, radio stations, etc., however, the guarantee for an ef?cient update and maintenance of registers or list of other sources is paramount. To reduce costs, existing sources such as establishment surveys should be exploited by amending/adding questions that allow retrieving additional information on the establishments' activities. In this respect, WIPO's experience was underlined as it already assesses for a number of economies in the region the economic contribution of copyright-based industries, e.g. in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and in the member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). For all these activities to succeed, coordination should take place at regional level, especially for FATS. There is a need to offer the possibility to gather information on regional head of?ces of multinational companies, possibly aiming in a few years at establishing a Caribbean business register. Discussions were very lively and the presentations by groups at the end of the workshop revealed that the participants had identi?ed where statistics needed to be improved. Based on these discussions it was possible to draw a "roadmap" for countries to begin compiling more appropriate statistics relating to trade in creative services. The participating agencies (CARICOM Secretariat, UNESCO, UNSD, WIPO and WTO) agreed that it was necessary to follow-up with countries of the region to ensure a sustainable implementation of the workshop's results. As a consequence, a second workshop planned by UNSD later this year, focusing on trade in services and tourism statistics, will include a special session on trade in cultural services statistics. Within this session, an expanded classi?cation for collecting relevant trade in cultural services statistics will be discussed. The results of the WTO workshop are summarised in Box 1. They focus on identifying the sector's functioning, statistical frames that allow compiling respective statistics, and institutional settings to support the implementation. The workshop concluded that it was necessary to design a regional approach to the measurement and analysis of the activities in the creative industries sector, from a trade perspective, but not only limited to this as it is also necessary to look at this from an industry and product perspective. Mode IV (e.g. provision to other countries of services through the physical movement of artists (e.g. participation of foreign artists in carnivals/festivals, bands/singers/dancers touring abroad) is an important component of trade in creative services. Before developing mode IV-related information on trade ?ows, it is important to fully implement the BPM6 category of personal, cultural and recreational services and then to explore ways and means to separate international transactions relating to mode IV from the ones that are mode I (cross-border supply). For mode IV, information on the number of persons crossing borders under GATS regimes are also needed. Sources such as those used for tourism should be explored. Other sources such as migration or labour statistics should also be explored. A phased implementation and amendment of surveys taking into account human and technical resources is recommended. Institutional arrangements The implementation of these statistical aspects to measure international trade of creative industries need however be bound into institutional arrangements. To foster the exchange of information, it is recommended to implement an electronic forum of exchange. This will help to improve communication and the exchange of information between different stakeholders including between industry and government but also within the government such as ministries, central banks, statistical of?ces, etc. One source for said ????????????????????M??????I???????
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