The Revised Agreement on Government Procurement: changes to the procedural rules and other transparency provisions

Arrowsmith, Sue

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511977015.014

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“…Nonetheless, the recent conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) negotiations demonstrates that this can be a viable path for non-GPA members to make procurement commitments. What follows discusses the coverage of PTAs involving BRI countries, as there is extensive analysis of the GPA and its provisions (e.g., Arrowsmith, 2011;Davies, 2017).…”

Section: Ptas Involving Bri Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative

Ghossein¹,

Hoekman²,

Shingal³

2018

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This series is produced by the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment (MTI) Global Practice of the World Bank. The papers in this series aim to provide a vehicle for publishing preliminary results on MTI topics to encourage discussion and debate. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Citation and the use of material presented in this series should take into account this provisional character.

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Section: Ptas Involving Bri Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative

Ghossein¹,

Hoekman²,

Shingal³

2018

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“…7 The basis for the renegotiation was provided in Article XXIV:7(b) and (c) of the 1994 Agreement, which called for the Parties to undertake negotiations with a view to improving the Agreement and achieving significant expansion of the Parties' market access commitments under the Agreement, valued at US$80-100 billion annually 9 ; and (iii) a set of new Agreed Work Programmes 10 relating to the administration and possible further evolution of the Agreement, to be conducted by the WTO Committee on Government Procurement following the coming into force of the revised Agreement. 11 Subsequently, on 30 March 2012, after the timely completion of a legal review and verification process, Parties formally adopted the results of the renegotiation (WTO, Committee on Government Procurement, 2012a).…”

Section: The Wto's Agreement On Government Procurement (Gpa)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…13 Another important element of the revised GPA text consists in a specific new requirement for participating governments and their relevant procuring entities to avoid conflicts of interest and prevent corrupt practices. This provision is unique in the context of WTO treaty obligations (Anderson, 2012;Arrowsmith, 2011). The import of this new substantive provision is reinforced by new language, in the Preamble to the Agreement, recognizing the GPA's significance for good governance and the fight against corruption.…”

Section: The Wto's Agreement On Government Procurement (Gpa)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationship between Services Trade and Government Procurement Commitments

Anderson¹,

Locatelli²,

Müller³

et al. 2014

WTO Working Papers

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Paper has been prepared by the authors in their personal capacities. It has benefited greatly from two rounds of discussion in the WTO's Working Party on GATS Rules, in the course of which many useful suggestions were provided by WTO delegations. The authors have attempted to reflect these suggestions as far as possible given the necessity of maintaining appropriate neutrality regarding potential negotiating issues. Thanks are due to Felipe Sandoval (former Chairman of the Working Party on GATS Rules), Hamid Mamdouh (Director of the WTO's Services Division) and Antony Taubman

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“…10 Certainly, the analysis in this paper supports this perspective: the gains in market access from future GPA accessions are likely to exceed those from the ongoing negotiations within the existing membership by a substantial margin (see also the related perspective of the Chaiman of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement, Nicholas Niggli, as described in Niggli 2011). We hope, as well, that the information, sources and related comments that we provide in this Paper will serve to stimulate thinking and further, more formal, analysis of these and 9 It should be emphasized that, of these countries, only one (China) currently is actively seeking accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement. The others have been included only for illustrative purposes, with no implication that they eventually will or should join the Agreement -a choice that is entirely in their own hands.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The accession of the five "BRICS" countries -Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa -would, by itself, add in the range of $US 233-596 billion annually to that value. 9 In addition, we expect that the simple methodology that we set out concerning the identification of potential market access opportunities for individual accession candidates and other benefits and costs of GPA accession may be of assistance to WTO Members reflecting on their potential interests in this area.…”

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Assessing the Value of Future Accessions to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

2011

WTO Working Papers

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The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to accede to the GPA in their respective WTO accession protocols or are, on their own initiative, looking at the potential pros and cons of accession. In this context, there is a need for factual information concerning the potential consequences of GPA accession, and a framework to assess related benefits and costs. Of interest is both the systemic value of such accessions-i.e. the value they will add to the extent of market access commitments under the Agreement-and their potential benefits and costs for individual acceding Parties. This Working Paper introduces new sources of information relevant to these topics (principally, the statistical reports that have been circulated recently by GPA Parties) and shows their relevance to and usefulness in assessing the above-noted matters. The Paper presents estimates of the size of potential market access gains from pending and possible future GPA accessions, based on simple extrapolations from the data sources identified. Next, the Paper shows how the same data sources can assist in throwing light on the potential benefits and costs of GPA accession for individual WTO Members/countries contemplating accession. The latter use of the data is developed in the context of a more general discussion of the benefits and costs of GPA accession for individual WTO Members, also drawing on existing literature, qualitative aspects and "insights from the field" (i.e. our own work in advising and conducting seminars for such countries and other WTO Members).

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The Revised Agreement on Government Procurement: changes to the procedural rules and other transparency provisions

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Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative

Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative

The Relationship between Services Trade and Government Procurement Commitments

Assessing the Value of Future Accessions to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

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