It takes 5 minutes of reading analysis provided on the WikiLeaks page to have a heart attack.
The US TISA proposal only applies to SOEs at central government level. This was a
controversial issue in the TPPA,
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where each party designated which, if any, rules would
apply to the sub-central government level.
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As a result, the US and other federal
jurisdicons whose states or provinces own SOEs have less exposure than countries with a
unitary system of government.
>New SOEs may need to be created because of market, policy,
social or regulatory failure, or because a government rejects the neoliberal model for some
or all such actvites. In most instances where new SOEs are created they need special
support, at least initally, and may need to adopt measures that favour local services rms or
other ‘non-commercial’ practces to meet their objectves. There is no provision for this kind
of future-proofng in the Annex (and only limited in the TPPA
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Reading the rest of it is even worse.
In Poland we had private post service win a contract for most of official gov-to-people mail by severely undercutting SOE post office. They did it by employing almost all of the shitty BS ways one can come up with: temp work (almost show up and get a bag of mail style), almost no physical presence (for official mail/court notices!), outright falsification of delivery status (FOR COURT MAIL)
After half a year people were so pissed that they lost the contract
Those annexes at least in part will let them get away with it.
Sure, it would be nice to stop some of the extreme protectionism (cough, France, cough), but those rules are just downright horrible in practice
In most instances where new SOEs are created they need special support, at least initally, and may need to adopt measures that favour local services rms or other ‘non-commercial’ practies to meet their objectves.
If SOA needs "special support" (this usually means some kind of monopoly and inflated prices) and commercial entity does not (in order to deliver same product/service at same price), why would you want to have a SOE?
>After half a year people were so pissed that they lost the contract. Those annexes at least in part will let them get away with it.
In your words: a local company lost a contract with the government because they did not deliver. How is TISA going to change that exactly?
a local company lost a contract with the government because they did not deliver. How is TISA going to change that exactly?
The GP is pointing out a case where "opening the market" resulted in a significant loss of service. TISA isn't going to change that, TISA is going to enable that.
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It takes 5 minutes of reading analysis provided on the WikiLeaks page to have a heart attack.
Reading the rest of it is even worse. In Poland we had private post service win a contract for most of official gov-to-people mail by severely undercutting SOE post office. They did it by employing almost all of the shitty BS ways one can come up with: temp work (almost show up and get a bag of mail style), almost no physical presence (for official mail/court notices!), outright falsification of delivery status (FOR COURT MAIL) After half a year people were so pissed that they lost the contract Those annexes at least in part will let them get away with it. Sure, it would be nice to stop some of the extreme protectionism (cough, France, cough), but those rules are just downright horrible in practice
You are mixing different stuff together:
>After half a year people were so pissed that they lost the contract. Those annexes at least in part will let them get away with it.a local company lost a contract with the government because they did not deliver. How is TISA going to change that exactly?
The GP is pointing out a case where "opening the market" resulted in a significant loss of service. TISA isn't going to change that, TISA is going to enable that.