Trade Act 2021

1 Implementation of the Agreement on Government Procurement

(1) An appropriate authority may by regulations make such provision as the authority considers appropriate—

(a) for the purpose of implementing the Agreement on Government Procurement signed at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994, as amended on or before the United Kingdom’s accession (“the GPA”), or

(b) in consequence of—

(i) the accession of another party to, or the withdrawal of a party from, the GPA,

(ii) a dispute between the United Kingdom and another party to the GPA,

(iii) a modification of another party’s Appendix I to the GPA, or

(iv) a modification of the list of central government entities in Annex 1 to the United Kingdom’s Appendix I to the GPA.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may not come into force before—

(a) in the case of regulations under subsection (1)(a), the day the United Kingdom accedes to the GPA;

(b) in the case of regulations under subsection (1)(b)(i), the day the other party accedes to or, as the case may be, withdraws from, the GPA;

(c) in the case of regulations under subsection (1)(b)(iii) or (iv), the day the modification becomes effective.

(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision modifying retained direct principal EU legislation.

(4) In this section, a “dispute” means a matter in respect of which the United Kingdom or another party is entitled to have recourse to the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes under Article XX of the GPA.