GPA/LEGIS/GBR/5  
 
21 December 2021  
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Committee on Government Procurement  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF DOMESTIC LEGISLATION RELEVANT TO THE  
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT  2012  
NOTIFICATION FROM UNITED KINGDOM  
The following notification, dated 20 December 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United Kingdom.  
 
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Notifying 
Party  UNITED KINGDOM  
Legal Basis   Article XXII:5 of the GPA 2012  
 Committee's Decision on notification requirements under Articles XIX and 
XXII:5 of the GPA 2012 (Para. 1 of GPA/113 , Annex A of Appendix 2, pp. 436 -
437) 
Title of the 
notified legal 
text The Utilities C ontracts Regulations 2016  
Link to legal 
text https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/GPA/GBR/21_7799_00_e.pdf ;  
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/274   
Notification 
status   First notification  
 Change, a mendment or revision to notified legal text  
 Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification s 
referred to  Amends legal text in place before the United Kingdom  completed its accession 
to the  GPA in its own right . 
Brief description of the notified legal text  
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016  and the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016  
came into force in 2016 and provide the legal framework for procurement by contracting entities 
operating in the field of utilities.  
In 2021 various amendments were made to these  regulations which arose from the UK acceding 
to the Agreement on Government P rocurement (GPA) in its own right and reflecting modifications 
to the United Kingdom’s Appendix I of the GPA following the UK’s Article XIX notification which 
came into effect on 16 May 2021. None of these amendments are substantive.   
 
These amendments we re made by the Public Procurement (Agreement on Government 
Procurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 made on 12 May 2021 which entered into force on 
11 June 2021 ( www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi /2021/573/made ) and the Public Procurement 
(Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 made on 20 
July 2021 which entered into force on 16 August 2021. 
(www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/872/made )  
 
These regulations were made using powers in the Trade Act 2021 which came into force on 29 
April 2021. ( www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/10 ) GPA/LEGIS/GBR/5  
 
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Further amendments concerning updating the UK’s thresholds and to change the calculation of 
the estimated value of a procurement based on the total amount payable without making a 
deduction for value a dded tax will be made by the Public Procurement (Agreement on Government 
Procurement) (Thresholds) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 made on 29 October 2021 which will 
enter into force on 1 January 2022 ( www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1221/made ).  
 
Additionally and the Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Thresholds 
etc.) (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 ( www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/378/made ) 
(as amended by the Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Thresholds 
etc.) (Amendment) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021) Made 29 October 2021 which 
comes into force on 1 January 2022 ( www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/424/made ).  
 
These amendments were made using powers in the Trade Act 2021, the Public Contracts 
Regulations 2015, the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, and th e Utilities Contracts 
Regulations 2016 and for Scotland, the Trade Act 2021, the Public Contracts (Scotland) 
Regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016, and the Concession 
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016.  
Languages of 
notified legal 
text English  
Date of 
adoption  12 May  2021, 16 August 2021 and 29 October 2021  
Entry into 
force  The amendments entered into force on 11 June  2021, 16 August 2021 and 
1 January 2022.  
Other 
information        
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Cabinet Office  
International and Reform Team  
Telephone:  +44-7771-957746  
 
 
 
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