Working Party on Domestic Regulation
E56619
WTO body
international organization working party
subsidiary body of the Council for Trade in Services
The Working Party on Domestic Regulation is a specialized body within the World Trade Organization that focuses on developing and clarifying rules governing domestic regulatory measures affecting trade in services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Working Party on Domestic Regulation canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450310 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Working Party on Domestic Regulation Context triple: [Council for Trade in Services, hasSubordinateBody, Working Party on Domestic Regulation]
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A.
The Hague Working Group
The Hague Working Group is a subsidiary body of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties that conducts detailed, ongoing negotiations and consultations on the Court’s governance, budget, and policy issues.
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B.
Conference of the States Parties
The Conference of the States Parties is the principal decision-making body of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, where member states meet to oversee implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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C.
Technical Committee on Rules of Origin
The Technical Committee on Rules of Origin is a specialized body that develops, clarifies, and harmonizes international rules used to determine the country of origin of traded goods.
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D.
Domestic Council
The Domestic Council was a White House advisory body in the 1970s that coordinated and developed U.S. domestic policy for the president.
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E.
Working Group on Amendments
The Working Group on Amendments is a subsidiary body of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court responsible for considering and negotiating proposed changes to the Court’s founding legal framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Working Party on Domestic Regulation Target entity description: The Working Party on Domestic Regulation is a specialized body within the World Trade Organization that focuses on developing and clarifying rules governing domestic regulatory measures affecting trade in services.
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A.
The Hague Working Group
The Hague Working Group is a subsidiary body of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties that conducts detailed, ongoing negotiations and consultations on the Court’s governance, budget, and policy issues.
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B.
Conference of the States Parties
The Conference of the States Parties is the principal decision-making body of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, where member states meet to oversee implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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C.
Technical Committee on Rules of Origin
The Technical Committee on Rules of Origin is a specialized body that develops, clarifies, and harmonizes international rules used to determine the country of origin of traded goods.
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D.
Domestic Council
The Domestic Council was a White House advisory body in the 1970s that coordinated and developed U.S. domestic policy for the president.
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E.
Working Group on Amendments
The Working Group on Amendments is a subsidiary body of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court responsible for considering and negotiating proposed changes to the Court’s founding legal framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
WTO body
ⓘ
international organization working party ⓘ subsidiary body of the Council for Trade in Services ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
licensing procedures
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licensing requirements ⓘ measures affecting trade in services ⓘ qualification procedures ⓘ qualification requirements ⓘ technical standards ⓘ |
| composedOf |
World Trade Organization
ⓘ
surface form:
WTO Members
|
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| decisionMakingProcess | consensus ⓘ |
| field |
domestic regulation
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international trade law ⓘ services regulation ⓘ trade in services ⓘ |
| hasObjective |
to clarify and improve GATS rules on domestic regulation
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to develop disciplines on domestic regulation affecting trade in services ⓘ to ensure that qualification requirements, technical standards and licensing procedures do not constitute unnecessary barriers to trade in services ⓘ to facilitate trade in services while preserving the right to regulate ⓘ to promote impartial and reasonable administration of domestic regulation in services ⓘ to promote transparency of domestic regulatory measures affecting services ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
disciplines on domestic regulation in services
ⓘ
draft disciplines on licensing requirements and procedures ⓘ draft disciplines on qualification requirements and procedures ⓘ draft disciplines on technical standards ⓘ negotiating texts on domestic regulation disciplines ⓘ reports to the Council for Trade in Services ⓘ |
| hasPrinciple |
necessity of regulatory measures
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non-discrimination in the administration of domestic regulation ⓘ procedural fairness in licensing and qualification procedures ⓘ proportionality of regulatory measures ⓘ publication of relevant regulatory requirements ⓘ reasonable timeframes for processing applications ⓘ transparency of domestic regulation ⓘ |
| hasWorkScope |
horizontal disciplines applicable across services sectors
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sector-specific regulatory disciplines where mandated ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Geneva
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WTO headquarters ⓘ |
| inception | 1999 ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
General Agreement on Trade in Services
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surface form:
GATS Article VI
GATS Article VI:4 mandate ⓘ General Agreement on Trade in Services ⓘ |
| meetsAt |
WTO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
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surface form:
WTO headquarters in Geneva
|
| parentOrganization | Council for Trade in Services ⓘ |
| partOf | World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| reportsTo | Council for Trade in Services ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Working Party on Domestic Regulation Description of subject: The Working Party on Domestic Regulation is a specialized body within the World Trade Organization that focuses on developing and clarifying rules governing domestic regulatory measures affecting trade in services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Council for Trade in Services