military units and agencies and all other transactors is
recommended.
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3.141.
Transactions classified to this component
comprise those for goods and services (such as office
supplies, furnishings, utilities, official vehicles and
operation and maintenance, and official entertainment)
and personal expenditures incurred by diplomats and
consular staff and military personnel, as well as their
dependants in the economies in which they are located.
Also included in this component are transactions, subject
to the same considerations as those in the preceding
item, by other official entities (such as aid missions and
government tourist, information and promotion offices)
located in economies abroad. Also included are
transactions associated with general administrative
expenditures etc. that are not classified elsewhere. In
addition, this component includes transactions
associated with aid services that are provided by non-
military agencies, that do not give rise to any payments
and that have offsets in transfers. Finally, transactions
associated with the provision of joint military
arrangements and peacekeeping forces, such as those of
the United Nations, are included in government services, n.i.e.
3.142.
Most transactions included in this EBOPS
component are not covered by GATS. In particular,
GATS excludes:
(a) Goods supplied to or by embassies, consulates,
military units etc. because GATS applies only to
services transactions;
(b) Services supplied by embassies, consulates,
military units etc. because these services are supplied in
the exercise of government authority (see annex V, part
1, article 1);
(c) Supplies of services to embassies, consulates,
military units etc. by government entities from other
countries (including from the country of location).
3.143. GATS covers only the supply of services by non-
government entities to government entities, foreign
diplomats, and consular staff and their dependants,
which are allocated to mode 2. These services are
included in government services, n.i.e when they cannot
be classified in other components. However,
identification of these transactions would require the
compilation of data on goods supply separately from the
supply of services, as well as a further breakdown by
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This breakdown is not required for GATS purposes.
type of supplier of the service. This is not recommended
in the present Manual.