The General Agreement on Trade in Services, whose coverage is being expanded to include environmental services of sanitation, nature and landscape protection, financial services, tourism, among others, provides the mechanism for the privatization of basic public services.
《服务贸易总协定》的范围已经扩大到了环境卫生、自然和景观保护、金融服务、旅游业等方面，为基本公共服务的私有化提供了机制。