European Services Forum
The European Services Forum is a lobby group of representatives from the European services sector that promote the liberalisation of international trade in services. It was created in April 1999 in order to give recommendations to the European Commission in the GATS negotiations of the World Trade Organization. Since 2012, the Forum is supporting the negotiations concerning the Trade in Services Agreement.
Members
A wide number of services organisations are covered, including many from insurance, finance, telecommunications and employers' organizations.Insurance
- Lloyd's of London
- * it is not a commercial company but a stock market
- Zurich Financial Services
- Comité Européen [des Assurances]
- * composed of insurance associations of many European countries
- Bureau International des Producteurs d’Assurances et de Réassurances
- * composed in particular of insurance intermediaries associations of many European countries
Finance
- Commerzbank AG
- Deutsche Bank
- Goldman Sachs
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Standard Chartered Bank
- International Financial Services London
- European Banking Federation
- * represents the interests of about 5000 European banks of all sizes.
- European Association of Co-operative Banks
- * Deutsche Zentralgenossenschaftbank
- * Crédit Agricole
- * OP-Pohjola Group
- * And other smaller banks
- European Savings Banks Group
Telecommunication
- BT Group plc
- Deutsche Telekom AG
- Orange S.A.
- Telenor Group
- European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association
- European Satellite Operators Association