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Transparent and improved communications;
Collaboration and engagement across
the APEC platform and with various
stakeholders;
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Competitiveness in services through
human and institutional capacity building
and increased participation of developing
member economies; and
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Cros s - sectoral and sector- specific
approaches.
In line with the 1995 Osaka Action Agenda,
the 2000 Policy Framework for Work on Services,
and the 2009 APEC Principles for Cross-Border
Trade in Services, taking into account individual
economies’ situations, APEC affirms the
importance of the following strategic directions:
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Transparency of laws, regulations, and
administrative procedures;
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Progressively reducing restrictions to
services trade and investment, including
unnecessary localization requirements;
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Non-discrimination between domestic and
foreign service suppliers;
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Good regulatory practices and effective
competition policy;
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Facilitating the mobility of ser vice
suppliers and business persons; and
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Supporting capacity building to develop the
ability of economies to competitively supply
services.
The 2015 ASCF will play a pivotal role in
fully achieving the Bogor Goals, in providing a
common strategic direction and in promoting
coherence in APEC’s work on services. The
ASCF will ensure that APEC’s multi-fora and
multi-stakeholder services agenda will remain
dynamic and responsive to economic, market,
and technological developments of each APEC
member economy.
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The Way Forward
APEC members have agreed to develop a strategic
and long-term APEC Services Competitiveness
Roadmap in 2016 with the adoption of a
concerted set of actions and mutually agreed
targets to be achieved by 2025. The process of
drafting the Roadmap will begin with discussion
of the elements of the Roadmap followed by
deliberations on actions and mutually agreed
targets. The Roadmap will, among others:
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Build on APEC’s past and on-going work on
services;
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Promote increased and strengthened APEC
cross-fora dialogue and collaboration such
as joint meetings, projects, and initiatives;
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Pursue close collaboration with ABAC,
PECC, and other stakeholders through
regular Public-Private Dialogues on
Services;
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Broaden multi-stakeholder engagement
through the APEC Virtual Knowledge
Centre on Services – a virtual knowledgesharing platform on information and best
practices of services-related policies and
programmes of APEC;
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Foster exchange of good regulatory
pr ac tic e s and promote ef fec tive
competition policy;
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Seek better ways to produce servicesrelated statistics and increase the number
of APEC economies with indices for
measuring the regulatory environment in
services including by providing capacity
building and exploring the development
of an APEC index, taking into account, as
appropriate, existing indices maintained
by other fora such as the Organisation of
Economic Co-operation and Development;
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Regularly organise, through the relevant
APEC Working Groups and Committees,
discussion fora among services regulators;
officials responsible for trade, investment,
and competition policies; and the private
sector; and
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Leverage par tnerships with regional
and global bodies such as the World
Trade Organization, United Nations
Bodies, International Trade Centre, the
Organization for Economic Co-operation
and D evelo p ment , t he Ec o no mic
Research Institute for ASEAN and East
Asia, the Asian Development Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, and the
World Bank, among other institutions,
to implement the Roadmap, and avoid
duplication and ensure coherence with
existing initiatives.
The desired outcomes of the ASCF are:
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Increased services value-adding capacity
of APEC economies;
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