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GPA/MOD/HKG/6  
 
11 April 2014  
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Committee on Government Procurement  Original: English  
 
 PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO APPENDIX I OF HONG KONG, CHINA UNDER THE 
REVISED AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
COMMUNICATION FROM HONG KONG, CH INA PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XIX:11 OF THE REVISED 
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
The following communication, dated 9 April 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Hong Kong, China. 
 
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 1.  Pursuant to paragraph 1(b) of Article XIX of the revised Agreement on Government 
Procurement (hereinafter "the revised Agreement"), Hong Kong, China hereby notifies the 
Committee on Government Procurement of the following modifications of a purely formal or minor nature relating to Appendix I of the revised Agreement: 
a. Replace the entities "Office of the Teleco mmunications Authority" and "Television and 
Entertainment Licensing Authority" with "O ffice of the Communications Authority" in 
Annex 1; 
b. Minor editorial changes to the sequence of CPC Provisional Reference No. in Annex 5; 
and 
c. Common formatting changes as suggested by the Secretariat in all Annexes. 
2.  The above modifications arise from the following: 
a. The Office of the Telecommunications Authority and the Television and Entertainment 
Licensing Authority have merged to form the Office of the Communications Authority on 1 April 2012. All functions, including procurement functions, of the Office of the 
Telecommunications Authority and the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority 
have been taken up by the Office of the Communications Authority, except that the function of issuing entertainment licences has been transferred to the Home Affairs 
Department, which is already listed in Annex 1 of Appendix I of the revised Agreement. 
These modifications have already been adopted in Annex 1 of Appendix I of the 1994 Agreement
2; 
b. To list out the CPC Provisional Reference No. of the covered services in Annex 5 of 
Appendix I in ascending order; and 
                                               
1 Article XIX:1 reads as follows: Notification of Proposed Modification  A Party shall notify the Committee 
of any proposed rectification, transfer  of an entity from one annex to anothe r, withdrawal of an entity or other 
modification of its annexes to Appendix I (any of which is hereinafter referred to as "modification"). The Party proposing the modification (hereinafter referred to as "modifying Party") shall include in the notification: (a) for 
any proposed withdrawal of an entity  from its annexes to Appendix I in exercise of its rights on the grounds 
that government control or influenc e over the entity's covered procurement has been effectively eliminated, 
evidence of such elimination; or (b) for any other proposed modification, information as to the likely consequences of the change for the mutually agr eed coverage provided for in this Agreement. 
2 These modifications were proposed under the 1994 Agreement in GPA/MOD/HKG/5, dated 
21 February 2014 and were certified pursuant to WT/Let/940 of 27 March 2014, given that no objections were made within 30 days. GPA/MOD/HKG/6 
 
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  c. To reflect new document formats that have been proposed by the Secretariat in order to 
put the schedules into a loose-leaf format. 
3.  The above modifications do not alter the level of mutually agreed coverage provided in the 
revised Agreement. 
4.  Attachment A to this document shows (in bold, strikeout or underlining) the proposed 
modifications by Hong Kong, China to the correspon ding pages of Annexes 1 to 7 of Appendix I. 
Attachment B indicates how these pages would appear after the proposed modifications have been 
accepted.3 
                                               
3 Attachments A and B are in English only. GPA/MOD/HKG/6 
 
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