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GPA/MOD/SGP/3  
 
25 April 2014  
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Committee on Government Procurement  Original: English  
 
PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO APPENDIX I OF SINGAPORE UNDER THE REVISED 
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
COMMUNICATION FROM SINGAPORE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XIX:11 OF THE  
REVISED AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
The following communication, dated 23 April 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Singapore. 
 
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1.  The Government of Singapore refers to its earlier communication dated 20 November 2012 to 
the Committee on Government Procurement in GPA/MOD/SGP/2 which notified certain modifications of a purely formal nature relati ng to its Annex 1 of Appendix I of the 1994 
Agreement on Government Procurement. These modifications were certified pursuant to 
WT/Let/873 of 11 January 2013, given that no objections were made within 30 days. 
2.  Pursuant to Article XIX, paragraph 1 (b) of the revised Agreement on Government Procurement 
which entered into force on 6 April 2014, the Government of Singapore hereby notifies the 
Committee on Government Procurement of the proposed modifications relating to its Annex 1 of Appendix I which were earlier referred to in GPA/MOD/SGP/2 and WT/Let/873, as well as other proposed formatting modifications relating to its Annexes 1 to 7 of Appendix I as the WTO 
Secretariat has implemented system-wide document  formatting requirements. Please note that 
these modifications are of a purely formal character and affect neither the balance of rights and obligations in any way nor the level of mutually agreed coverage provided in the GPA. 
3.  The modifications relating to its Annex 1 of Appendix I (excluding formatting modifications) are 
set out below: 
Annex 1 Appendix I 
 
 Delete "Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports" and "Ministry of 
Information, Communications and the Arts" from "List of Entities"; and 
 Insert "Ministry of Social and Family Development", "Ministry of Communications and 
Information" and "Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth" to "List of Entities". 
4.  The above modifications are necessary to reflect the reorganisation of entities within the 
Singapore administration. The portfolios of the two ministries, Ministry of Community 
Development, Youth and Sports and the Ministry  of Information, Communications and the Arts, 
which have ceased to exist, are being redistributed to the newly formed Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Ministry of Social and Family Development; and Ministry of 
                                               
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. GPA/MOD/SGP/3 
 
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  Communications and Information as of 1 November 2012. In addition, the formatting modifications 
are necessary to reflect new document formats that have been proposed by the WTO Secretariat in order to put the schedules into a loose-leaf format. 
5.  Attachment A to this document shows the modi fications to Annexes 1 to 7 of Appendix I, based 
on this notification by Singapore. Attachment B indicates how the Annexes would appear after the 
modifications, based on this notification, have been made.
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2 Attachments A and B are in English only. GPA/MOD/SGP/3 
 
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