As mentioned above, one of the objectives of AFAS is to liberalise services trade towards achieving liberalisation beyond Member States’ commitments under GATS. This is often referred to as the GATS-plus principle. It means that ASEAN Member States shall schedule commitments under AFAS that go beyond their GATS commitments or offer new service sectors/sub-sectors that have not been scheduled under GATS. With the adoption of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint in 2007, future liberalisation commitments under AFAS will be based on the targets and thresholds as laid out under the AEC Blueprint.