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2.
Each State Party shall maintain or institute, as soon as practicable,
judicial, arbitral or administrative tribunals or procedures which provide,
at the request of an affected service supplier, for the prompt review of,
and where justified, appropriate remedies for, administrative decisions
affecting trade in services. Where such procedures are not independent
of the agency entrusted with the administrative decision concerned, the
State Party shall ensure that the procedures in fact provide for an
objective and impartial review.
3.
Where authorisation is required for the supply of a service liberalised
under this Protocol, the competent authorities of a State Party shall,
within a reasonable period of time after the submission of an application
considered complete under domestic laws and regulations, inform the
applicant of the decision concerning the application. At the request of
the applicant, the competent authorities of the State Party shall provide,
without undue delay, information concerning the status of the
application.
Article 10
Mutual Recognition
1.
For the purposes of the fulfilment, in whole or in part, of its standards or
criteria for the authorisation, licensing or certification of services
suppliers, and subject to the requirements of paragraph 3 of this Article,
a State Party may recognise the education or experience obtained,
requirements met, or licenses or certifications granted in another State
Party. Such recognition, which may be achieved through harmonisation
or otherwise, may be based upon an agreement or arrangement with the
State Party concerned or may be accorded autonomously.
2.
A State Party that is a party to an agreement or arrangement of the type
referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, whether existing or future, shall
afford adequate opportunity for other interested State Parties to
negotiate their accession to such an agreement or arrangement or to
negotiate comparable ones with it. Where a State Party accords
recognition autonomously, it shall afford adequate opportunity for any
other State Party to demonstrate that education, experience, licenses, or
certifications obtained or requirements met in that other State Party's
territory should be recognised.
3.
A State Party shall not accord recognition in a manner which would
constitute a means of discrimination between State Parties in the
application of its standards or criteria for the authorisation, licensing or
certification of service suppliers, or a disguised restriction on trade in
services.