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To enhance cooperation in services amongst ASEAN

members in order to improve the efficiency and competitiveness,
diversify production capacity and supply and distribution of
services of their services suppliers within and outside ASEAN;

to eliminate substantially the restrictions to trade in services
amongst ASEAN members; and to liberalise trade in services

by expanding the depth and scope of liberalisation beyond
the GATS, Article 5 of AFAS recognises the principle of mutual
recognition whereby each member can “recognise the educa-

tion or experience obtained, requirements met, or licenses or
certifications granted ” by other members for the purpose of
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licensing or certification of service suppliers. Such recognition
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may be based on a bilateral or multilateral arrangement.
To strengthen the services sector in order to allow the

movement of professionals and skilled workers within member
states, in July 2003, the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on

Services (CCS) established an Ad-Hoc Expert Group on Mutual
Recognition Arrangements under Sectoral Working Group with
the objective of realizing framework agreements on mutual

recognition. It was decided to adopt a sectoral approach in
developing mutual recognition arrangements for the identified

34 id. at, Article 5.

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