The EU Council has published the EU schedule of commitments on cross-border supply of services under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Indonesia, detailing which sectors are liberalised and the reservations that apply to Indonesian services and service suppliers. The document, dated 29 June 2026, forms part of the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the agreement.
The schedule covers only sectors explicitly listed; no commitments are made for unlisted sectors. Reservations on market access and national treatment are detailed per EU Member State for each sector. Measures on qualifications, technical standards, and licensing are not listed but still apply if they are non-discriminatory. Subsidies are excluded from the commitments. The commitments have no direct effect and confer no rights directly to individuals or companies. For the EU, national treatment does not require extending to Indonesian persons the treatment granted to other Member States' persons under the TFEU.
In the real estate sector, many Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Greece, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia) impose authorisation, nationality, or reciprocity conditions on acquisition or lease. For legal services, most Member States require EEA or Swiss nationality, residency, or commercial presence for full admission to the Bar and representation before courts; specific rules apply for representation before the EUIPO.
Branches of non-EU financial institutions in a Member State are subject to specific prudential requirements, unlike EU subsidiaries.
The document is an annex to the proposal for a Council decision, which will be adopted after the European Parliament's consent. The agreement is expected to boost trade in services between the EU and Indonesia, but the extensive reservations mean that market access remains limited in key sectors such as real estate and legal services. For Indonesian service suppliers, the lack of direct effect means they cannot invoke the commitments directly in court. For EU businesses, the schedule provides clarity on which sectors are open and under what conditions, but the patchwork of Member State-level reservations may complicate cross-border operations. The exclusion of subsidies from commitments preserves EU flexibility in state aid policy.