WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION  
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE  
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO  
 
 
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Referencia:    WLI/100              3 de abril de 2009 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
ACUERDO SOBRE CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA  
HECHO EN MARRAKECH EL 15 DE ABRIL DE 1994 
 
CERTIFICACIÓN DE MODIFICACIONES DEL ACUERDO 
 
ENVÍO DE COPIAS AUTENTICADAS DE LAS PÁGINAS SUSTITUTIVAS
 
DEL SISTEMA DE HOJAS AMOVIBLES PARA LOS APÉNDICES  
QUE CONTIENEN LAS MODIFICACIONES CERTIFICADAS  
 
 
 Tengo el honor de remitirle adjuntas copias au tenticadas de las páginas sustitutivas 1/3 del 
Anexo 1 y 1/5 y 3/5 del Anexo 3 del Apéndice I que contienen las modificaciones certificadas.  
 
 Las modificaciones corresponden al Japón  y surten efecto a partir del 21 de marzo de 2009 . 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
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ACUERDO SOBRE CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA 
HECHO EN MARRAKECH EL 15 DE ABRIL DE 1994 
 
CERTIFICACIÓN DE MODIFICACIONES 
  
 Certifico por la presente que las modificaci ones de los Anexos 1 y 3 del Apéndice I del 
Acuerdo sobre Contratación Pública (1994) referentes al Japón , que se notificaron al Comité de 
Contratación Pública (documento GPA/MOD/JPN/ 34) en virtud del procedimiento previsto en el 
párrafo 6 del artículo XXIV, surten efecto desde el 21 de marzo de 2009 . 
  
 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 Acuerdo sobre Contratación Pública (GPA/M/2) y los 
procedimientos para las modificaciones del sistema de hojas amovibles (GPA/M/5), las modificaciones figuran en las páginas sustitutivas  del sistema de hojas amovibles que se adjuntan a 
la presente.  En consecuencia, las páginas adjuntas  sustituyen a las páginas 1/3 del Anexo 1 y 1/5 y 
3/5 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 notificación se efectúa de conformidad con el párrafo 14 del artículo XXIV del Acuerdo. 
 
 La presente Certificación queda depositada en p oder 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.  La certificación será registrada de conformidad con las disposiciones del 
Artículo 102 de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas. 
 
 Hecha en Ginebra el veinticinco de marzo de dos mil nueve.  
 
  
 
  Pascal Lamy 
 
  
Copia autenticada: 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 Director General
 
  
  
APPENDIX I JAPAN  ANNEX 1 Page 1/3
 
 
21 March 2009 (WT/Let/641)    
JAPAN 
 
(Authentic in the English language only) 
  
ANNEX 1 
 
Central Government Entities wh ich Procure in Accordance 
with the Provisions of this Agreement  
 
 
Supplies  
 
Threshold : 
 
130 thousand SDR 
 List of Entities : 
 
All entities covered by the Accounts Law as follows: 
 
- House of Representatives - House of Councillors 
- Supreme Court 
- Board of Audit 
- Cabinet 
- National Personnel Authority - Cabinet Office 
- Imperial Household Agency 
- National Public Safety Commission  (National Police Agency) 
- Financial Services Agency 
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and 
Communications 
- Ministry of Justice 
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Ministry of Finance 
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science 
 and Technology - Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 
 - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and 
Tourism 
- Ministry of Environment 
- Ministry of Defense  
Services  
 
Threshold : 
 
Construction services :  4,500 thousand SDR 
 
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 : 
 
All entities covered by the Accounts Law as follows: 
 
- House of Representatives - House of Councillors 
- Supreme Court 
- Board of Audit - Cabinet 
- National Personnel Authority 
- Cabinet Office - Imperial Household Agency 
- National Public Safety Commission 
 (National Police Agency)  
APPENDIX I JAPAN  ANNEX 3 Page 1/5
 
 
21 March 2009 (WT/Let/641)  JAPAN 
 
ANNEX 3 
 
All Other Entities which Procure in Accordance  
with the Provisions of this Agreement  
 
Supplies  
 
Threshold : 
 
130 thousand SDR 
  
List of Entities : 
 
1. Group A 
 - Japan Water Agency 
- Japan Regional Development Corporation 
- Japan Green Resources Agency - Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation 
(a)(d) 
- Narita International Airport Corporation - East Nippon Expressway Company Limited 
- Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited 
- West Nippon Expressway Company Limited - Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited 
- Hanshin Expressway Company Limited 
- Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company 
Limited 
- Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment 
Agency 
- Urban Development Corporation (a) 
- Japan Science and Technology Agency 
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (b) 
- Japan Environmental Safety Corporation 
- Japan International Cooperation Agency - Welfare and Medical Service Agency 
- Government Pension Investment Fund 
- Agriculture and Livestock Industries 
Corporation 
- Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation 
(c) 
 - Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation 
- Japan Post 
- Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization 
- Employment and Human Resources Development 
Organization of Japan 
- Okinawa Development Finance Corporation 
- Japan Finance Corporation 
- Housing Loan Corporation 
- Japan Finance Corporation for Municipal 
Enterprises 
- Development Bank of Japan 
- Tokyo Metro Co. Ltd. (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) - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Co. (f), 
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Co. (f) 
- Northern Territories Issue Association - National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan 
- RIKEN (b) 
- Environmental Restoration and Conservation 
Agency 
- Fund for the Promotion and Development of the 
Amami Islands 
- Japan Foundation 
- Japan Student Services Organization  
 
  APPENDIX I JAPAN  ANNEX 3 Page 5/5
 
21 March 2009 (WT/Let/641)  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 Education Agency 
- National Institute for Sea Training 
- Civil Aviation College 
- National Institute for Environmental Studies 
- Labor Management Organization for USFJ 
Employees 
- National Agency for Vehicle Inspection 
- National Statistics Center - Japan Mint 
- National Printing Bureau 
- Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization - National Hospital Organization 
- National University Corporation 
- Inter-University Research  Institute Corporation 
- Institute of National Colleges of Technology, 
Japan 
- National Institution for Academic Degrees and 
University Evaluation 
- Center for National University Finance and 
Management 
- National Institute of Multimedia Education 
 
 
Services  
 
Threshold :   
 
Construction services :   
4,500 thousand SDR for Japan Post in Group A 
15,000 thousand SDR for all other entities in 
Group A 
4,500 thousand SDR for entities in Group B 
 
Architectural, engineerin g 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 
 - Japan Water Agency 
 - Japan Regional Development Corporation 
- Japan Green Resources Agency - Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation 
(a)(d) 
- Narita International Airport Corporation - East Nippon Expressway Company Limited 
- Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited 
- West Nippon Expressway Company Limited - Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited 
- Hanshin Expressway Company Limited 
- Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company 
Limited 
- Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment 
Agency 
- Urban Development Corporation (a) 
- Japan Science and Technology Agency - Japan Atomic Energy Agency (b) 
- Japan
 Environmental Safety Corporation 
- Japan International Cooperation Agency - Welfare and Medical Service Agency 
- Government Pension Investment Fund 
- Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation - Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (c) 
- Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation 
- Japan Post - Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization 
- Employment and Human Resources Development 
Organization of Japan 
- Okinawa Development Finance Corporation 
- Japan Finance Corporation 
- Housing Loan Corporation 
- Japan Finance Corporation for Municipal 
Enterprises 
- Development Bank of Japan 
- Tokyo Metro Co. Ltd. (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) 
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