ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the initial decision of the Member States to cooperate and to empower the Commission as well as the European Union's (EU) subsequent use of its new de facto competences in investment-related negotiations. It examines how the EU used its new de facto competences in the Trade-Related Investment Measures and General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations and evaluates how these observations reflect assumptions formulated in the analytical framework. The Council of Ministers had to issue a negotiating mandate in order to legally empower the EU and Commission to participate in the Uruguay Round. The ministers reconvened in the Uruguayan city of Punta del Este in September 1986 in order to formally launch the new multilateral trade round. The Liberalisation of Trade in Services Committee remained the only proactive business voice during the pre-negotiations on an extension of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs agenda to services trade and investment.
