The Status of National Treatment in Iranian Law and World Trade Organization Regulations in Securities Exchange Section

Nowadays، situation of securities provisions in an accordance with huge transactions in this part and its increasing role in the countries economyenjoyes specific importance. It is essential to remind that national treatment principle is one of the principles of General Agreement on Trade (GAT) in services of WTO، and has been enacted in order to secure non-discrimination in the trade of goods and services under the WTO regulations. N-T says that all the countries that want to become a member of WTO should avoid doing any treatment or enacting any regulation، which results any exemption or any privilege. As Iran now is at the treshold of joining WTO، its essential to correspond its regulations whit the WTO principles. This article represents the qualifications of Iran regulations in securities exchange section with emphasis on the national treatment principle، which is one of the examples of non-discrimination principle، and represents some solutions for amendment of these provisions and gain most correspondence with this principle. After a concise research between Iran regulations and WTO regulations، we concluded that some of Iran regulations are inconsistent with the WTO wto rules and should be amended.