WPDR definition

WPDR is used for the Working Party on Domestic Regulation. The third letter indicates the type of document: “M” designates minutes of meetings; “W” indicates a working paper submitted to the entity in question. If no letter is included, it means that the document is an “action” document, such as a Decision or Report. The fourth item listed is a number; these numbers are issued in chronological order so that S/C/M/24 indicates the twenty-fourth set of minutes issued by the Council for Trade in Services. Secretariat papers are listed as working paper or “W” documents, as are comments and drafts submitted by Member States. “W” documents are non-public, restricted documents unless the author indicates otherwise. Sometimes documents are “derestricted” at a time point after they were first issued. The symbol for each document appears in the upper right-hand corner of the first page of the document, together with the date on which the document was prepared. Reproduced below is the beginning of the Secretariat paper on legal services which includes the document symbol information. ORGANIZATION 6 July 1998 (98-2691)
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WPDR means the Work Packet Definition Report agreed between the Parties in accordance with Clause 3.3; “WPDR Process” means the process for the Parties to agree WPDRs set out in Schedule 10; “XL Affiliate” means any other person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, is controlled by or under common control with XL that is listed in Schedule 8 (as amended by mutual agreement of the Parties from time to time). For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; “XL Group” means XL and the XL Affiliates; “XL Information” means all information, documentation and participation, including decisions and approvals, provided by XL, XL Affiliates, or parties acting on their behalf, to Accenture or Accenture Affiliates in connection with the Services; “XL Insurance” or “XLI” means the global insurance business segment of the XL Group; “XL Personnel” means the directors, employees, agents, contractors, sub-contractors or suppliers of the members of the XL Group and any other parties acting on behalf of any other member of the XL Group; Commercial-in-Confidence 9 OPERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION SERVICES AGREEMENT XL OT Programme Accenture
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Examples of WPDR in a sentence

  • The Working Party on Domestic Regulation (WPDR) has been established for that purpose.

  • The disciplines are to be integrated into the GATS, together with any new results the WPDR may achieve in the interim, at the end of the current Round.

  • As a result of a suggestion from Hong Kong, the WPDR decided that Members should consult on a voluntary basis with their domestic professional associations concerning the potential applicability of the Disciplines for the Accountancy Sector to their professions.

  • During a series of meetings in July 2000, the WPDR heard from WTO Member States about these consultations: Several Members informed the working party on their consultations with domestic professional organizations regarding the applicability of the accountancy disciplines to other professions.

  • Although not the main focus of discussion, the WPDR has also discussed international standards, which was the fourth point in the Secretariat’s memo S/C/W/96.

  • The WPDR set a deadline of December 31, 1999 to complete these domestic consultations with the relevant professional organizations and until March 31, 2000 to notify the WTO of the results of the consultations.

  • Although the WPDR has indicated that the issues of necessity and transparency have been the focus of most of the discussions, the WPDR minutes also memorialize some discussion about “equivalency.” As the Secretariat explained, the “equivalency” doctrine is relevant to disciplines and domestic regulation because: Regulators are often called upon to assess the equivalence of domestic and foreign qualifications.

  • Governments are encouraged to negotiate agreements to accept equivalence of qualifications obtained under other jurisdictions;10 acceptance of international standards to facilitate evaluation of qualification obtained abroad.11 Literature dealing with the issue of negotiations of disciplines for domestic regulation in the GATS as well as the discussions in the WPDR raises a number of concerns for developing and least developed countries that arise from the negotiations.

  • The disciplines are to be integrated into the GATS, together with any additional results the WPDR may agree upon at the end of the current Round.

  • Any timetable or Project Plan will be an estimate only unless such timetable or Project Plan is expressly agreed to be a binding commitment as part of a fixed price WPDR or SOW.