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Consolidated TPP Text – Annex II – Schedule of Chile

Sector: All

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5)

Description: Investment

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the ownership or control of land within five kilometres of the coastline that is used for agricultural activities. Such measure could include a requirement that the majority of each class of stock of a Chilean juridical person that seeks to own or control such land be held by Chilean persons or by persons residing in Chile for 183 days or more per year.

Existing Measures: Decree Law 1.939, Official Gazette, November 10, 1977, Rules for acquisition, administration and disposal of State owned assets, Title I (Decreto Ley 1.939, Diario Oficial, noviembre 10, 1977, Normas sobre adquisición, administración y disposición de bienes del Estado, Título I)

Sector: All

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)

Description: Investment

In the transfer or disposal of any interest in stock or asset held in an existing state enterprise or governmental entity, Chile reserves the right to prohibit or impose limitations on the ownership of said interest or asset and on the right of foreign investors or their investments to control any State company created thereby or investments made by the same. In connection with any such transfer or disposal, Chile may adopt or maintain any measure related to the nationality of senior management and members of the board of directors.

A “State company”Footnote 1 shall mean any company owned or controlled by Chile by means of an interest share in the ownership thereof, and it shall include any company created after the entry into force of this Agreement for the sole purpose of selling or disposing of its interest share in the capital or assets of an existing state enterprise or governmental entity.

Existing Measures:

Sector: All

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to countries under any bilateral or multilateral international agreement in force on, or signed prior to, the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to countries under any international agreement in force or signed after the date of entry into force of this Agreement involving:

Existing Measures:

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: One way satellite broadcasting of digital telecommunication services, whether these involve direct home television broadcasting, direct broadcasting of television services and direct audio broadcasting; supplementary telecommunication services; and limited telecommunication services

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 10.4)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure related to cross-border trade in one way satellite broadcasting of digital telecommunication services, whether these involve direct home television broadcasting, direct broadcasting of television services and direct audio broadcasting; supplementary telecommunication services; and limited telecommunication services.

Existing Measures: Law 18.168, Official Gazette, October 2, 1982, General Telecommunications Law, Titles I, II, III, V and VI (Ley 18.168, Diario Oficial, octubre 2, 1982, Ley General de Telecomunicaciones, Títulos I, II, III, V y VI)

Sector: Communications

Sub-Sector: One way satellite broadcasting of digital telecommunication services, whether these involve direct home television broadcasting, direct broadcasting of television services and direct audio broadcasting; supplementary telecommunication services; and limited telecommunication services

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)

Description: Investment

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure related to the investors of another Party or to their investments in one way satellite broadcasting of digital telecommunication services, whether these involve direct home television broadcasting, direct broadcasting of television services and direct audio broadcasting; supplementary telecommunication services; and limited telecommunication services.

Existing Measures: Law 18.168, Official Gazette, October 2, 1982, General Telecommunications Law, Titles I, II, III, V and VI (Ley 18.168, Diario Oficial, octubre 2, 1982, Ley General de Telecomunicaciones, Títulos I, II, III, V y VI)

Sector: Issues Involving Minorities

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure according rights or preferences to socially or economically disadvantaged minorities.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure according rights or preferences to indigenous peoples.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Education

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to:

Subparagraph (b) includes teachers and auxiliary personnel supplying educational services in pre-school, kindergarten, special education, elementary, secondary or higher education, professional, technical or university education, and all other persons that supply services related to education, including sponsors of educational institutions of any kind, schools, lyceums, academies, training centres, professional and technical institutes or universities.

This reservation does not apply to investors and an investment of an investor of another Party in kindergarten, pre-school, elementary or secondary private education institutions, that do not receive public resources, or to the supply of services related to second-language training, corporate, business, and industrial training and skill upgrading, which include consulting services relating to technical support, advice, curriculum, and programme development in education.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Government Finances

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4)

Description: Investment

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure related to the acquisition, sale or disposal by another Party’s nationals of bonds, treasury securities or any other type of debt instruments issued by the Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile) or the Government of Chile. This entry is not intended to affect the rights of another Party’s financial institutions (banks) established in Chile to acquire, sell or dispose of such instruments when required for the purposes of regulatory capital.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Fisheries

Sub-Sector: Fishing related activities

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to control the activities of foreign fishing, including fish landing, first landing of fish processed at sea and access to Chilean ports (port privileges).

Chile reserves the right to control the use of beaches, land adjacent to beaches (terrenos de playas), water-columns (porciones de agua) and sea-bed lots (fondos marinos) for the issuance of maritime concessions. For greater certainty, “maritime concessions” do not cover aquaculture.

Existing Measures: Decree Law 2.222, Official Gazette, May 31, 1978, Navigation Law, Titles I, II, III, IV and V (Decreto Ley 2.222, Diario Oficial, mayo 31, 1978, Ley de Navegación Títulos I, II, III, IV y V)

D.F.L. 340, Official Gazette, April 6, 1960, about Maritime Concessions (D.F.L. 340, Diario Oficial, abril 6, 1960, sobre Concesiones Marítimas)

Supreme Decree 660, Official Gazette, November 28, 1988, Maritime Concession Act (Decreto Supremo 660, Diario Oficial, noviembre 28, 1988, Reglamento de Concesiones Marítimas)

Supreme Decree 123 of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Development and Reconstruction, Vice-Ministry of Fishing, Official Gazette, August 23, 2004, On Use of Ports (Decreto Supremo 123 del Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Reconstrucción, Subsecretaría de Pesca, Diario Oficial, agosto 23, 2004, Sobre Uso de Puertos)

Sector: Arts and Cultural Industries

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that accords differential treatment to countries under any existing or future bilateral or multilateral international agreement, with respect to arts and cultural industries, such as audio-visual cooperation agreements.

For greater certainty, government supported subsidy programmes for the promotion of cultural activities are not subject to the limitations or obligations of this Agreement.

For the purposes of this entry, “arts and cultural industries” includes:

Existing Measures:

Sector: Entertainment, Audio-visual and Broadcasting Services

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to:

Notwithstanding the above, Chile shall extend to the persons and investors of another Party, and their investments, treatment no less favourable than that Party accords persons and investors of Chile, and their investments.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Social Services

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Performance Requirements (Article 9.10)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 9.11)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the supply of public law enforcement and correctional services, and the following services to the extent that they are social services established or maintained for reasons of public interest: income security or insurance, social security or insurance, social welfare, public education, public training, health care and child care.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Environmental Services

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 10.4)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure imposing the requirement that the production and distribution of drinking water, the collection and disposal of waste water and sanitation services, such as sewage systems, waste disposal and waste water treatment may only be supplied by juridical persons incorporated under Chilean law or created in accordance with the requirements established by Chilean law.

This entry shall not apply to consultancy services retained by the said juridical persons.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Construction Services

Sub-Sector:

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 10.3)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the supply of construction services by foreign juridical persons or legal entities.

These measures may include requirements such as residency, registration or any other form of local presence, or the obligation of giving financial security for work as a condition for the supply of construction services.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Transportation

Sub-Sector: International road transportation

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 9.4 and Article 10.3)
Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (Article 9.5 and Article 10.4)
Local Presence (Article 10.6)

Description: Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the international land transportation of cargo or passengers in border areas.

Additionally, Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain the following limitations for the supply of international land transportation from Chile:

Existing Measures:

Sector: Transportation Services

Sub-Sector: Road transportation services

Obligations Concerned: National Treatment (Article 10.3)

Description: Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that authorises only Chilean natural or juridical persons to supply land transportation of persons or merchandise inside the territory of Chile (cabotage). For this, the enterprises shall use vehicles registered in Chile.

Existing Measures:

Sector: All

Obligations Concerned: Market Access (Article 10.5)

Description Investment and Cross-Border Trade in Services

Chile reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to Article 10.5 (Market Access), except for the following sectors and sub-sectors subject to the limitations and conditions listed belowFootnote 2:

Legal services:

Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services:

Taxation Services:

Architectural services:

Engineering services:

Integrated engineering services:

Urban planning and landscape architectural services:

Veterinary services:

Services provided by midwives, nurses, physiotherapists and paramedical personnel:

Computer and related services:

Interdisciplinary research and development services, research and development services on natural sciences, and related scientific and technical consulting services:

Research and development services on social sciences and humanities:

Real Estate services: involving owned or leased property or on a fee or contract basis:

Rental/leasing services without crew/operators, related to vessels, aircraft, any other transport equipment, and other machinery and equipment:

Advertising services, market research and public opinion polling services, management consulting services, services related to management consulting, technical testing and analysis services:

Services related to agriculture, hunting and forestry:

Services related to mining, placement and supply services of personnel, investigation and security services:

Maintenance and repair of equipment (not including vessels, aircraft, or other transport equipment), building-cleaning services, photographic services, packing services, and convention services:

Printing and publishing services:

Courier services:

International long-distance telecommunications services:

Local basic telecommunication services and networks, intermediate telecommunications services, supplementary telecommunications services, and limited telecommunications services:

Commission agents services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, franchising and other distribution:

Environmental Services:

Hotels and restaurants (including catering), travel agencies and tour operators services and tourist guide services:

Sporting and other recreational services, excluding gambling and betting services:

Sports facility operation services:

Road Transport: freight transportation, rental of commercial vehicles with operator; maintenance and repair of road transport equipment; supporting services for road transport services:

Services auxiliary to all transport: cargo handling services, storage and warehouse services, freight transport agency services:

Pipeline transport: transportation of fuels and other goods:

Aircraft repair and maintenance services:

Selling and marketing of air transport services, computer reservation systems (CRS) services, specialty air services:

Airport operation services; ground handling services:

For the purposes of this entry:

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