commercial presence means any type of business or professional establishment, including through:
commercial presence means any type of business establishment, including through:
commercial presence means an enterprise within a Member's territory for the supply of financial services and includes wholly- or partly-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, partnerships, sole proprietorships, franchising operations, branches, agencies, representative offices or other organizations.
More Definitions of commercial presence
commercial presence means any type of business or professional establishment, including through (i) the constitution, acquisition or maintenance of a legal person; or (ii) the creation or maintenance of a branch or a representative office; within the territory of a Party for the purpose of supplying a service; e) "sector" of a service means, (i) with reference to a specific commitment, one or more, or all, subsectors of that service, as specified in a Party's schedule of commitments; (ii) otherwise, the whole of that service sector, including all of its subsectors; f) "service supplier" means any person that supplies a service6; g) "service
commercial presence means any form permitted under the legislation of the Russian Federation or the legislation of a foreign state, of organization of entrepreneurial and other economic activity of a foreign person in the territory of the Russian Federation or of a Russian person in the territory of a foreign state with the objective of providing services, including by creation of a legal entity, branch or representative office of a legal entity or to take part in the charter (stock) capital of a legal entity. The Russian legal entity through which a commercial presence is carried out, shall be regarded as a foreign provider of services, if a foreign person (foreign persons) by virtue of its predominant participation in the charter (stock) capital of the Russian legal person or in accordance with a contract made between them or in any other way, is in a position to determine decisions taken by the Russian legal entity;
commercial presence means any type of business orprofessional establishment, including through: (i) the constitution, acquisition, or maintenance of a juridical person; or (ii) the creation or maintenance of a branch or a representative office, within the Area of a Party for the purposes of supplying a service; (c) "computer reservation system services" means services provided by computerized systems that containinformation about air carriers' schedules,availability, fares and fare rules, through whichreservations can be made or tickets may be issued; (d) "juridical person" means any legal entity dulyconstituted or otherwise organized under applicablelaw, whether for profit or otherwise, and whetherprivately-owned or governmentally-owned, includingany corporation, trust, partnership, joint venture,sole proprietorship, or association; (e) "juridical person of the other Party" means ajuridical person which is either: (i) constituted or otherwise organized under the lawof the other Party and is engaged in substantivebusiness operations in the Area of the otherParty; or (ii) in the case of the supply of a service throughcommercial presence, owned or controlled by: (A) natural persons of the other Party; or (B) juridical persons of the other Partyidentified under subparagraph (i); (f) a juridical person is: (i) "owned" by persons of a Party or persons of anon-Party if more than 50 percent of the equityinterest in it is beneficially owned either bythe former persons or by the latter persons; (ii) "controlled" by persons of a Party or persons ofa non-Party if either the former persons or thelatter persons have the power to name a majorityof its directors or otherwise to legally directits actions; and (iii) "affiliated" with another person when it controls, or is controlled by, that other person; or whenit and the other person are both controlled bythe same person; (g) "measure" means any measure, whether in the form ofa law, regulation, rule, procedure, decision,administrative action or any other form; Note: "measure" shall include taxation
commercial presence means any type of business or professional establishment, including through the constitution, acquisition or maintenance of a juridical person, or the creation or maintenance of a branch or a representative office, within the territory of a Party for the purpose of supplying a service; “direct taxes” comprise all taxes on total income, on total capital or on elements of income or of capital, including taxes on gains from the alienation of property, taxes on estates, inheritances and gifts, and taxes on the total amounts of wages or salaries paid by enterprises, as well as taxes on capital appreciation;
commercial presence means any type of business or professional establishment, including through (i) the constitution, acquisition or maintenance of a juridical person, or (ii) the creation or maintenance of a branch or a representative office, within the territory of a Member for the purpose of supplying a service. (Article XVIII(d))
commercial presence means juridical persons established, constituted, acquired or controlled and/or branches or a representative office created for the purpose of supplying a service and/or performing an economic activity in sectors other than services. For the purposes of this Section commercial presence established, constituted, acquired, controlled or created is hereinafter referred to as “commercial presence set up”;
commercial presence means a juridical entity within a Party’s territory that supplies financial services and includes wholly or partly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, partnerships, branches, agencies, representative offices or other organisations through franchising operations.