The representative of Chinese Taipei considered that the communication from the EC could serve as a basis for discussing the technical issues pertaining to government procurement in services and had some preliminary questions to raise. She first noted, as the Canadian delegation, that paragraph 18 of the EC communication invited Members to discuss procedural rules. She had some reservations on this issue, because many procedural rules would put too much of an administrative burden on entities. While special attention should be paid to the inclusion of transparency requirements, she did not think that certain procedural features such as tender publication, bidding period, tender opening, or contract awarding should be included. Instead, these should be left to each Member to regulate. Second, regarding the European Communities' proposal to include a fourth column in schedules where commitments on procurement could be made for each specific sector, she wanted to remind delegations that procurement in services is often characterized by clusters. For example, a tender for mass transit systems might involve various service sectors, such as legal, accounting, engineering, architecture, transport, construction and other related services. Some of these sectors might be subject to commitments and others not. Therefore, she thought Japan's suggestion to discuss concrete examples could help shed some light on this aspect of the EC proposal.