Mr. Rupert Schlegelmilch:

I forgot to answer this question. We chose the negative list approach after long internal discussions because it is a better, more modern way to comprehensively work towards trade authorisation. The exclusions are so broad that ever since the General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS, was created we have not seen a new service which was not covered in one way or the other. Even the new technology area has exclusions for audiovisual services, for good reasons of linguistic diversity and so on. All the new services which have come up, Netflix and so on, are covered by the exclusions. The original list of services including the exclusions is so broad that we have not yet come to the problem that we inadvertently covered or did not exclude to both sides a service category. I hope that gives some assurances that this model is not a danger for unexpected things.