加入WTO后中国法律服务贸易制度的完善

法律服务是一种特殊形式的商业服务,法律服务实际上主要是律师所提供的服务。中国服务业发展存在严重的不均衡状态,根据WTO的有关原则,发展中国家的缔约国可享有分阶段、分程序地逐渐开放其本国内的服务市场的权利,但必须尽以法律法规的形式通知其他缔约国的义务,所以,中国应相应调整、补充现有的法律服务规则,将从WTO中受到的相关法律服务优惠待遇用法律法规的形式固定下来,以便在一个有序的法律环境下,发展自己的法律服务业。

Improvement on the Chinese Legal Regime of Trade in Legal Services

Legal services, a particular form of trade in services, refer to the services mostly provided by lawyers. There exist asymmetries in Chinese services industry. Under the relevant rules of WTO, the developing country members shall enjoy the rights to open domestic market of services progressively. However, they should carry out the obligations to inform the other members by the way of laws and regulations. Thus China should adjust and supplement the current rules on legal services, which reflect the preferential treatment on the perspective of legal services derived from WTO. As a result the legal services industry can be developed under the orderly legal environment.