Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2151 of 22 October 2025 amending Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the thresholds for concessions for the years 2026-2027
Date: 2025-10-22
Institutions: Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Subjects: agreement on government procurement, award of contract, protocol to an agreement, public procurement, service concession, tendering








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2025/2151


23.10.2025







            COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2025/2151
of 22 October 2025
         
amending Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the thresholds for concessions for the years 2026-2027
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the award of concession contracts (1), and in particular Article 9(4), second subparagraph, thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


By Decision 2014/115/EU (2), the Council approved the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement (3) concluded within the framework of the World Trade Organization. The amended Agreement on Government Procurement (‘the Agreement’) is a plurilateral instrument and its purpose is to mutually open government procurement markets among its parties. The Agreement applies to any procurement contract with a value greater than or equal to the amounts (‘thresholds’) set therein, expressed in terms of special drawing rights.












(2)


One of the objectives of Directive 2014/23/EU is to allow the contracting entities and contracting authorities applying that Directive to comply at the same time with the obligations laid down in the Agreement. To ensure that the threshold for concessions set in Article 8(1) of Directive 2014/23/EU corresponds to the threshold for concessions set in the Agreement, the threshold set in that Directive should be revised.












(3)


Article 9(1) of Directive 2014/23/EU requires the Commission to revise the thresholds every two years, with effect from 1 January. Consequently, the thresholds for 2026-2027 should apply from 1 January 2026.












(4)


Directive 2014/23/EU should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
In Article 8(1) of Directive 2014/23/EU, ‘EUR 5 538 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 404 000’.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2026.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 October 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/23/oj.

(2)  Council Decision 2014/115/EU of 2 December 2013 on the conclusion of the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement (OJ L 68, 7.3.2014, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2014/115(1)/oj).

(3)  Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement (OJ L 68, 7.3.2014, p. 2, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2014/115/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/2151/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)