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Reference: WLI/100  22 November 2016  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNM ENT PROCUREMENT DONE  AT MARRAKESH ON 15 A PRIL 1994, 
AS AMENDED BY THE PR OTOCOL AMENDING THE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNM ENT 
PROCUREMENT DONE AT GENEVA ON 30 MARCH 2 012 
("AMENDED AGREEMENT ON GOVER NMENT PROCUREMENT")  
 
CERTIFICATION OF MOD IFICATION S TO APPENDIX I  
TRANSMISSION OF CERT IFIED TRUE COP Y 
 
 I have the honour to furnish herewith a certified true copy of modification s by Japan  to 
page 2/4 of Annex 3 to Appendix  I. 
 
 The modification s are effective as of 6 November  2016 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         Roberto A zevêdo  
         Director -General  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16-6389            WT/Let/ 1210  
  
 
 AGREEMENT ON GOVERNM ENT PROCUREMENT DONE  AT MARRAKESH ON 15 A PRIL 1994, 
AS AMENDED BY THE PR OTOCOL AMENDING THE AGRE EMENT ON GOVERNMENT 
PROCUREMENT DONE AT GENEVA ON 30 MARCH 2 012 
("AMENDED AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUR EMENT")  
CERTIFICATION OF MOD IFICATIONS  
APPENDIX I  
 Pursuant to paragraph  1(a) of Article  XIX of the Amended Agreement on Government 
Procurement , modific ations to page 2/4 of Annex  3 to Appendix  I concerning Japan  were 
notified to the Committee on Government Procurement (the "Committee") and circulated in  
document GPA/MOD/ JPN/82 of 29 June 2016 .  
 
Pursuant to Article XIX:2 of the Amended Agreement on Gover nment Procurement, 
objection s to the proposed modification were received from the European Union (document 
GPA/MOD/JPN/88  of 28 July 2016 ) and the United States of America (document  GPA/MOD/JPN/91  
of 8 August 2016 ).  
 
 Pursuant to Article XIX:7(a)(i) of th e Amended Agreement on Government Procurement, 
where no Party has invoked the arbitration procedures adopted by the Committee on 22 June 2016 
(document GPA/139  of 23 June 2016 ) within the time -period  of 120 days of circulation of the 
notification of the pr oposed modification  (document GPA/MOD/JPN/82 of 29 June 2016 ), 
notwithstanding paragraph 5(c)  of Article XIX  of the Amended Agreement on Government 
Procurement , the proposed modification shall become effective where 130 days from the date of 
circulation of  the notification of the proposed modification under paragraph 1 of Article XIX of the 
Amended Agreement on Government Procurement  have elapsed, and the modifying Party has 
informed the Committee in writing of its intention to implement the modification . 
 
As no Party has invoked the Committee's arbitration procedures (document GPA/139  of 
23 June 2016 ), and Japan has notified the Committee of its intention to implement the proposed 
modification s (document GPA/MOD/JPN/95  of 2 November  2016), it is hereby cert ified that these  
modification s became effective as of 6 November  2016 , pursuant to paragraph 7(a)(i) of 
Article  XIX of the Amended Agreement on Government Procurement . 
 
The attached page 2/4 of Annex  3 to Appendix  I for Japan  replace s the corresponding 
page in the loose -leaf system of Appendices to the Amended Agreement on Government 
Procurement, done at Geneva on 30  March  2012.  
 
 I hereby furnish a certified true copy of t he above -mentioned modification s to each Member 
of the World Trade Organization. This  certification shall be registered in accordance with the 
provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.  
 
 Done at Geneva this twelfth  day of November , two thousand and sixteen . 
 
 
 
         Roberto A zevêdo  
 
 
Certified true copy:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Director-General  
 
 
 
                        WT/Let/ 1210