4. Such standards and criteria may be developed with regard to the following matters:
(a) education - accreditation of schools or academic programs where professional service providers obtain formal education;
(b) examinations - qualifying examinations for the purpose of licensing professional service providers, including alternative methods of assessment such as oral examinations and interviews;
(c) experience - length and nature of experience required for a professional service provider to be licensed;
(d) conduct and ethics - standards of professional conduct and the nature of disciplinary action for non-conformity with those standards by professional service providers;
(e) professional development and re-certification - continuing education for professional service providers, and ongoing requirements to maintain professional certification;
(f) scope of practice - extent of, or limitations on, field of permissible activities of professional services providers;
(g) territory-specific knowledge - requirements for knowledge by professional service providers of such matters as local laws, regulations, language, geography or climate; and
(h) consumer protection - alternatives to residency, including bonding, professional liability insurance and client restitution funds to provide for the protection of consumers of professional services.
5. Upon receipt of the recommendations of the relevant bodies, the Commission shall review the recommendations within a reasonable period to determine whether they are consistent with this Agreement.
6. Based upon the Commission's review, the Parties shall encourage their respective competent authorities, where appropriate, to adopt those recommendations within a mutually agreed period.
7. Where the Parties agree, each Party shall encourage the relevant bodies in its territory to develop procedures for temporary licensing of professional service providers of another Party.
8. The Commission shall periodically, and at least once every three years, review progress in the implementation of this Annex.
1. In implementing its commitments regarding foreign legal consultants, set out in its Schedules to Annexes I and VI in accordance with Article 1206 and 1208, each Party shall ensure, subject to its reservations set out in its Schedules to Annexes I and II in accordance with Article 1206, that a foreign legal consultant is permitted to practice or advise on the law of the country in which such consultant is authorized to practice as a lawyer.