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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1336/2013 of 13 December 2013 amending Directives 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC and 2009/81/EC of the            European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the application thresholds for the procedures for the awards of contract            (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Regulation (EU) No 1336/2013                     

# of 13 December 2013

# amending Directives 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC and 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the                        application thresholds for the procedures for the awards of contract                     

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement                           procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors(1), and in particular Article 69 thereof,                        

Having regard to Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of                           procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts(2), and in particular Article 78 thereof,                        

Having regard to Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of                           procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or                           entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC(3), and in particular Article 68 thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)By Decision 94/800/EC(4) the Council concluded the Agreement on Government Procurement (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’). The Agreement                              should be applied to any procurement contract with a value that reaches or exceeds the amounts (hereinafter referred to as                              ‘thresholds’) set in the Agreement and expressed as special drawing rights.

(2)One of the objectives of Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC is to allow the contracting entities and the contracting authorities                              which apply those Directives to comply at the same time with the obligations laid down in the Agreement. To achieve this,                              the thresholds laid down by those Directives for public contracts which are also covered by the Agreement should be aligned                              in order to ensure that they correspond to the euro equivalents, rounded down to the nearest thousand, of the thresholds set                              out in the Agreement.

(3)For reasons of coherence, it is appropriate to align also those thresholds in Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC which are                              not covered by the Agreement. At the same time, the thresholds laid down by Directive 2009/81/EC should be aligned to the                              revised thresholds laid down in Article 16 of Directive 2004/17/EC.

(4)Directives 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC and 2009/81/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee for Public Contracts,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

Directive 2004/17/EC is amended as follows:

Article 16 is amended as follows:

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 400 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 414 000’;

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’;

Article 61 is amended as follows:

in paragraph 1, the amount ‘EUR 400 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 414 000’;

in paragraph 2, the amount ‘EUR 400 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 414 000’.

# Article 2U.K.

Directive 2004/18/EC is amended as follows:

Article 7 is amended as follows:

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 130 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 134 000’;

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 200 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 207 000’;

in point (c), the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’;

the first paragraph of Article 8 is amended as follows:

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’;

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 200 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 207 000’;

in Article 56, the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’;

in the first subparagraph of Article 63(1), the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’;

Article 67(1) is amended as follows:

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 130 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 134 000’;

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 200 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 207 000’;

in point (c), the amount ‘EUR 200 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 207 000’.

# Article 3U.K.

Article 8 of Directive 2009/81/EC is amended as follows:

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 400 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 414 000’;

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 5 000 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 186 000’.

# Article 4U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2014.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

1

OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 1.                           

2

OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 114.                           

3

OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76.                           

4

Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters                              within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994) (OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 1).