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2011-AFAS-FS-5-Annex-HC-SC.pdf

Schedule-of-Specific-Commitments-Supplementary-Viet-Nam.pdf

2011-AFAS-FS-5-Annex-FSL.pdf

Summary Information
Full Title

2011 Protocol to Implement the Fifth Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

Short Title / Abbreviations

AFAS 5th Package on Financial Services/AFAS FS 5

CIL Subject Classification
Date of Adoption 04/05/2011
Place of Adoption Hanoi, Viet Nam, sidelines of the 14th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers’ Meeting (AFMM+3)
Issued/Adopted by Finance Ministers of ASEAN
Dispute settlement provisions

This Protocol is one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2019 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1. The 2019 Protocol will only apply with respect to new requests for consultations made on or after its entry into force (20 June 2022).

 

Paragraph 2: “This Protocol and its Annexes shall form an integral part of the [1995] ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services.”

Article VII ‘Settlement of Disputes’ of the 1995 ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services:

“1. The [1996] Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism for ASEAN shall generally be referred to and applied  with  respect  to  any  disputes  arising  from,  or  any  differences  between  Member  States concerning the interpretation or application of, this Framework Agreement or any arrangements arising therefrom.

2. A specific  dispute  settlement  mechanism may  be  established  for  the  purposes  of  this Framework Agreement which shall form an integral part of this Framework Agreement.”

The 1995 ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services is also one of the “Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix I.  The 2004 Protocol will only apply with respect to disputes that arose after its entry into force (29 November 2004).

Depository

Secretary-General of ASEAN

Annexes

This protocol states that its annexes include each Member State’s Consolidated Schedule of Specific Commitments on Financial Services and the Lists of Most-Favoured-Nation Exemptions.

Annex documents provided on the ASEAN website are as follows:

Consolidated Schedule of Specific Commitments on Financial Services:

  • Brunei Darussalam: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Cambodia: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Indonesia: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Lao PDR: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Malaysia: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Myanmar: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Philippines: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Singapore: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Thailand: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments
  • Viet Nam: Horizontal Commitments, Schedule of Specific Commitments

Lists of Most-Favoured-Nations Exemptions

  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cambodia
  • Indonesia
  • Lao PDR
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam

Schedule of Specific Commitments (Supplementary) – Viet Nam

Safeguard Framework for Financial Services Liberalisation under ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

Entry Into Force Status In Force
Source

ASEAN Legal Instruments

Date of Entry into Force

04/08/2011

Entry into Force / Termination Provisions

Paragraph 5:  “This Protocol and the commitments set out in the Annexes shall enter into force 90 (ninety) days after the date of its signing.”

Paragraph 8: “Where a Member State is unable to complete its internal procedures for the entry into force of this Protocol within ninety (90) days from the date of its signing, the rights and obligations of that Member State under this Protocol shall commence on the first day following the date on which notification was made under paragraph 7.”

Status
ASEAN States (Source:

ASEAN Legal Instruments

as of 12/12/2022)
Brunei Darussalam Signature 04/05/2011
Signature 09/08/2011
Cambodia Signature 04/05/2011
Signature 10/08/2011
Indonesia Signature 04/05/2011
Ratification 22/08/2013
Lao PDR Signature 04/05/2011
Acceptance 04/10/2011
Malaysia Signature 04/05/2011
Signature 29/06/2012
Myanmar Signature 04/05/2011
Ratification 21/11/2011
Philippines Signature 04/05/2011
Ratification 18/01/2012
Singapore Signature 04/05/2011
Signature 13/09/2011
Thailand Signature 04/05/2011
Signature 05/07/2011
Vietnam Signature 04/05/2011
Approval 21/09/2011
Related Instruments
Protocols / Amendments to this instrument

2015 Protocol to Implement the Sixth Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

2016 Protocol to Implement the Seventh Package of Commitments on Financial Services Under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

2019 Protocol to Implement the Eighth Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

This instrument amends/supersedes

1995 ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

The first Package of Commitments on Financial Services was made in the 1998 Protocol to Implement the Second Package of Commitments under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

2002 Protocol to Implement the Second Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

2005 Protocol to Implement the Third Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

2008 Protocol to Implement the Fourth Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

 

Related Instruments

WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services

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Additional Information

Dates of ratification and accession given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat’s Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. Some of the dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification/accession, rather than their date of receipt by the depository. 

Links to other Annexes outside of the List of Specific Commitments are hyperlinked above in the Annex field.