Title:Annex VI -- Schedule of United States Author: White House Document-Date: 29 Sept 1993 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length:6807 Annex VI - United States ________________________ Annex VI Schedule of United States Sector: Communications Sub-Sector: Broadcasting Industry CPC 7524 Program Transmission Services Classification: Level of Federal Government: Measures: Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. 309, 325 Description: The United States will ensure that in considering applications for a grant of authority to transmit programming to foreign stations for retransmission into the United States under section 325 of the Communications Act of 1934 ("the Act"), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not consider the nationality of the affected stations for the purpose of favoring a U.S. station that is competing with a Mexican station for affiliation with a U.S. programmer. Rather, the FCC will apply the criteria for the grant of such a permit in the same manner as they would be applied to a domestic broadcast station application under section 309 of the Act. In addition, the term of the section 325 permit shall be extended from one year to five years in all situations where it can be assured that the retransmitting station is and will be in full compliance with applicable treaties. In assessing the public interest, convenience and necessity required by the Act for the grant of authorization under section 325, the primary criterion will be avoiding the creation or maintenance of electrical interference to U.S. broadcast stations that violates applicable treaty provisions. In evaluating this and any other VI-U-1 Annex VI - United States ________________________ criterion permitted under section 309, the United States will ensure that the section 325 process is not conducted in a manner that would constitute an unnecessary restriction on trade. VI-U-2 Annex VI - United States ________________________ Sector: Professional Services Sub-Sector: Legal Services Industry SIC 8111 Legal Services Classification: Level of State Government: Measures: Alaska Bar R. 44.1 California R. Ct. 988 Connecticut Pract. Book 24A D.C. Ct. App. R. 46(c)(4) (Washington, D.C.) Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, Chapter 16, as adopted in Amendment to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar,_____ Fla. L. Weekly ____, 1992 Fla. LEXIS 1398 (Case No. 79,288, decided on July 23, 1992) Rules and Regulations of the State Bar of Georgia, Part II, Rule 2-101, Part D Hawaii Sup. Ct. R. 14 Illinois Rev. Stat. Ch. 110A, par. 712 (Sup. Ct. R. 712) Michigan Bd. of Law Examiners R. 5(E) New Jersey Sup. Ct. R. 1:21-9 New York Admn. Code tit. 22, Section 521 Ohio Sup. Ct. R. for the Government of the Bar XI Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in Oregon, Chapter 10 Texas R. Governing Admission to the Bar of Texas XVI VI-U-3 Annex VI - United States ________________________ Wash. R. of Ct. 14 Description: Lawyers authorized to practice in Canada or Mexico and law firms headquartered in Canada or Mexico will be permitted to provide foreign legal consultancy services, and to establish for that purpose, in Alaska, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Washington, or in any other state that so permits by the date of entry into force of this Agreement. VI-U-4