The OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) provides up-to-date and comparable information on regulations affecting trade in services across 50 countries and 22 major services sectors. The OECD Trade Committee identified three new services sectors to be added to the STRI: core environmental services, capital market and related services, and other business services. This survey focuses on core environmental services.
Through consultations and expert meetings, three sub-sectors were identified to structure the activities within core environmental services:
- Sewage services, as the activities specified in group 941 of the Central Product Classification Rev 2.1. (CPC 2.1)
- Refuse disposal and sanitation services (CPC 2.1 groups 942, 943 and 945)
- Remediation and other environmental services (CPC 2.1 groups 944 and 949)
A list of measures has also been developed for each of the three sub-sector.
The STRIs reflect a country's policy stance in five policy areas:
- Restrictions on foreign ownership and other market entry conditions
- Restrictions on the movement of people
- Other discriminatory measures and international standards
- Barriers to competition and public ownership
- Regulatory transparency and administrative requirements
When combining scores of individual measures in each of the policy areas, an assessment of the relative importance of the policy areas is necessary.
The purpose of this survey is to seek experts’ views on determining the relative trade restrictiveness of measures across the five policy areas. These inputs will be used to generate the weights for calculating the STRI for core environmental services.
On the last page of this online survey, respondents will have the opportunity to write additional comments on this exercise and fill in contact details (name, email address and organisation).
The deadline to complete this survey is June 30, 2023.
For any questions or comments, please contact Matteo Fiorini (Matteo.Fiorini@oecd.org).
There are 4 questions in this survey.
