WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO
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Internet:  http://www.wto.orgReference:     WLI/100 19 March 2001
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994
CERTIFICATION OF THE APPENDICES TO THE
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
RECTIFICATION
I have the honour to draw your attention to technical errors which appear in the authentic text
of the above-mentioned Appendices to the Agreement on Government Procurement done at
Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 as subsequently rectified or modified in accordance with the procedures
of Article XXIV:6 of the Agreement, in the form of a loose-leaf system established pursuant to thedecision of the Committee on Government Procurement of 4 June 1996 (GPA/M/2), a certified truecopy of which was transmitted on 1 March 2000.
The errors which require rectification are the following:
Japan, Appendix I, Annex 3, Page 1/4, under List of entities, delete Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Co. East (f) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. West (f) and insert Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Co. (f).
Japan, Appendix I, Annex 3, page 2/4, under List of entitities which procure the services,
specified in Annex 4, delete Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Co. (f)(g) and Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone West Co. (f)(g).
Pages 1/4 and 2/4 of Appendix I, Annex 3 of Japan in the loose-leaf system for Appendices
should be replaced by the attached pages.
As depositary of the Agreement on Government Procurement, I shall cause the corrections to
be made to the certified true copy of the Appendices, unless any government notifies me of an objectionthereto within thirty days from the date of this document.  In due course, the corrections will be certifiedby a Procès-Verbal of Rectification.
Mike Moore
Director-General
01-1420 WT/Let/386APPENDIX I JAPAN ANNEX 3 Page 1/4
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All Other Entities which Procure in Accordance
with the Provisions of this Agreement
Supplies
Threshold :
130 thousand SDR
List of Entities :
- Water Resources Development Public
Corporation
- Japan Regional Development Corporation- Japan Green Resources Corporation
- Japan National Oil Corporation (c)
- Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation
(a) (d)
- New Tokyo International Airport Authority- Japan Highway Public Corporation
- Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation
- Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation- Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority- Urban Development Corporation (a)- Japan Science and Technology Corporation- Japan Nuclear Cycle Development
Institute (b)
- Japan Environment Corporation- Japan International Cooperation Agency- Social Welfare and Medical Service Corporation- Pension Welfare Service Public Corporation- Agriculture and Livestock Industries 
Corporation
- Metal Mining Agency of Japan (c)- Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation- Postal Life Insurance Welfare Corporation- Labour Welfare Corporation- Employment and Human Resources
Development Organization of Japan
- Okinawa Development Finance Corporation- National Life Finance Corporation- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Finance
Corporation
- Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business- Housing Loan Corporation- Japan Finance Corporation for Municipal
Enterprises
- Development Bank of Japan- Japan Bank for International Cooperation- Teito Rapid Transit Authority (a)- Japan Tobacco Inc.- Hokkaido Railway Company (a)
- East Japan Railway Company (a)
- Central Japan Railway Company (a)- West Japan Railway Company (a)- Shikoku Railway Company (a)- Kyushu Railway Company (a)
- Japan Freight Railway Company (a)
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. (f)- Northern Territories Issue Association- Japan Consumers Information Center- Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (b)- RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research) (b)
- Pollution-Related Health Damage Compensation
Association
- Fund for the Promotion and Development of  
the Amami Islands
- Japan Foundation
- The Japan Scholarship FoundationAPPENDIX I JAPAN ANNEX 3 Page 2/4
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- National Education Center
- Japan Arts Council- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science- University of the Air Foundation- National Stadium and School Health Center of
Japan
- Social Insurance Medical Fee Payment Fund
- Association for Welfare of the Mentally and
Physically Handicapped
- Japan Racing Association- Mutual Aid Association of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fishery Corporation Personnel
- The National Association of Racing
- Farmers' Pension Fund- Japan Keirin Association- Japan External Trade Organization- Japan Motorcycle Racing Organization
- New Energy and Industrial Technology
Development Organization
- Japan National Tourist Organization- Japan Institute of Labour- Mutual Aid Fund for Official Casualties and
Retirement of Volunteer Firemen
- Corporation for Advanced Transport and
Technology (e)
- The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for
Private Schools of Japan
- Organization for Workers' Retirement
Allowance Mutual Aid
Services
Threshold :
Construction services :  15,000 thousand SDR
Architectural, engineering and other technical
services covered by this Agreement:450 thousand SDR
Other services :  130 thousand SDRList of Entities which procure the services, specified in
Annex 4 :
- Water Resources Development Public Corporation
- Japan Regional Development Corporation- Japan Green Resources Corporation
- Japan National Oil Corporation (c)
- Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (a)
(d)
- New Tokyo International Airport Authority- Japan Highway Public Corporation- Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation
- Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation
- Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority- Urban Development Corporation (a)- Japan Science and Technology Corporation- Japan Nuclear Cycle Development
Institute (b)
- Japan Environmental Corporation- Japan International Cooperation Agency- Social Welfare and Medical Service Corporation- Pension Welfare Service Public Corporation- Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation
- Metal Mining Agency of Japan (c)
- Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation- Postal Life Insurance Welfare Corporation- Labour Welfare Corporation- Employment and Human Resources Development
Organization of Japan
- Okinawa Development Finance Corporation
- National Life Finance Corporation- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Finance 
Corporation
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