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ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE  
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO  
 
 
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Referencia:    WLI/100        22 de mayo de 2002 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
ACUERDO SOBRE CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA  
HECHO EN MARRAKECH EL 15 DE ABRIL DE 1994 
  
 
CERTIFICACIÓN DE LAS PÁGINAS SUSTITUTORIAS DEL SISTEMA DE
 
HOJAS AMOVIBLES PARA LOS APÉNDICES DEL ACUERDO  
  
ENVÍO DE COPIA AUTENTICADA
 
  
 
  Tengo el honor de remitirle adjunta una copia aut enticada de la Certificación de las páginas 
sustitutorias 3/5 y 5/5 del Anexo 3 del Apéndice I del Japón , que surten efecto a contar del 14 de 
abril de 2002 . 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
             M i k e  M o o r e  
         D i r e c t o r  G e n e r a l  
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
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ACUERDO SOBRE CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA  
HECHO EN MARRAKECH EL 15 DE ABRIL DE 1994 
 
CERTIFICACIÓN DE MODIFICACIONES DEL ACUERDO 
 
 
 Certifico por la presente que las modificaciones del Apéndice I y del Anexo 3, del Acuerdo 
sobre Contratación Pública (1994) relativas al Japón , que se notificaron al Comité de Contratación 
Pública (GPA/W/186) en virtud del pr ocedimiento previsto en el párrafo  6 del artículo XXIV, surten 
efecto a contar del 14 de abril de 2002  al no haberse presentado dentro del plazo de 30 días 
contados a partir de la fecha de distribución del documento antes mencionado objeción alguna a las 
modificaciones propuestas. 
 
 De conformidad con la Decisión adoptada por el Comité de Contratación Pública el 4 de junio 
de 1996 sobre el establecimiento de un sistema de hojas amovibles con efectos jurídicos para 
actualizar periódicamente los apéndices del Acue rdo sobre Contratación Pública (GPA/M/2) y los 
procedimientos para las modificaciones del sistema de hojas amovibles (GPA/M/5), esas 
modificaciones figuran en las páginas sustitutorias del sistema de hojas amovibles que se adjuntan a 
la presente.  En consecuencia, las páginas adjunt as sustituyen a las páginas 3/5 y 5/5 del Anexo 3 
del Apéndice I del Japón  en el sistema de hojas amovibles de los apéndices, con sujeción a las 
Decisiones antes mencionadas.  
  La presente Certificación será depositada en poder del Director General de la Organización 
Mundial del Comercio, quien remitirá sin dilación una copia autenticada a cada Parte en el Acuerdo 
sobre Contratación Pública de conformidad con el  párrafo 14 del artículo XXIV del Acuerdo.  
La certificación será registrada de conformidad con las disposiciones del Artículo 102 de la Carta de 
las Naciones Unidas. 
  Hecha en Ginebra el veinte de mayo de dos mil dos. 
 
  
 
  
 
 Mike Moore 
 
  
 
Copia autenticada:  
 
  
 
  
Director General 
  
 
  
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Supplies (cont'd)  
 
- National Traffic Safety and Environment 
Laboratory 
- National Maritime Research Institute 
- Port and Airport Research Institute 
- Electronic Navigation Research Institute - Civil Engineering Research Institute of 
Hokkaido 
- Marine Technical College - National Institute for Sea Training 
- Schools for Seafarers Training 
- Civil Aviation College - National Institute for Environmental Studies 
- Labor Management Organization for USFJ 
Employees 
 
Services  
 
Threshold :   
 Construction services :   
15,000 thousand SDR for entities in Group A 
4,500 thousand SDR for entities in Group B  
Architectural, engineering and other technical 
services covered by this Agreement:    450 thousand SDR 
 
 Other services :  130 thousand SDR 
 
List of Entities which procure the services, specified in Annex 4 : 
 
1. Group A 
 
- 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 
- Government Pension Investment Fund - 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. (g) 
- Hokkaido Railway Company (a)(g) - East Japan Railway Company (a)(g) 
- Central Japan Railway Company (a)(g)  
- West Japan Railway Company (a)(g) - Shikoku Railway Company (a)(g) 
- Kyushu Railway Company (a)(g) 
- Japan Freight Railway Company (a)(g) 
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. (f)(g) 
- Northern Territories Issue Association - Japan Consumers Information Center 
 
 
  
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Services  (cont'd)  
 
 - Fisheries Research Agency 
- Research Institute of  Economy, Trade and 
Industry 
- National Center for Industrial Property 
Information 
- Nippon Export and Investment Insurance - National Institute of Advanced Industrial 
Science and Technology 
- National Institute of Technology and Evaluation - Public Works Research Institute 
- Building Research Institute 
- National Traffic Safety and Environment 
Laboratory 
- National Maritime Research Institute 
- Port and Airport Research Institute 
- Electronic Navigation Research Institute 
- Civil Engineering Research Institute of 
Hokkaido 
- Marine Technical College 
- National Institute for Sea Training - Schools for Seafarers Training 
- Civil Aviation College 
- National Institute for Environmental Studies - Labor Management Organization for USFJ 
Employees 
 
 
Notes to Annex 3  
 
1. Products and services procured with a view to 
resale or with a view to use in the production of 
goods for sale are not included. 
 
2. This Agreement shall not apply to contracts to be 
awarded to co-operatives or associations in 
accordance with laws and regulations existing at 
the time of the entry into force of this Agreement 
for Japan.   
 
3. This Agreement shall not apply to contracts which 
the entities in Group A award for purposes of 
their daily profit-making activities which are 
exposed to competitive forces in markets.  This note shall not be used in a manner which 
circumvents the provisions of this Agreement. 
  4. Notes to specific entities:   
 
 (a) Procurement related to operational safety of 
transportation is not included.  
 
 (b) Procurement which could lead to the 
disclosure of information incompatible with 
the purpose of the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or with international agreements on intellectual 
property rights is not included.  Procurement 
for safety-related activities aiming at utilization and management of radioactive 
materials and responding to emergencies of 
nuclear installation is not included.   
 
 (c) Procurement related to geological and 
geophysical survey is not included.   
 
 (d) Procurement of advertising services, 
construction services and real estate services 
is not included. 
  (e) Procurement of ships to be jointly owned 
with private companies is not included.   
  (f) Procurement of public electrical tele-
communications equipment and of services 
related to operational safety of telecommunications is not included.   
 
 (g) Procurement of the services specified in 
Annex 4, other than construction services, is 
not included. 
 
 
 
 
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