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regulations, including ethical employment practices;
       2. workplace health and safety; and
        3. environmental impacts.

Minimum time limits
    10.20    Potential suppliers must be required to lodge submissions in accordance with a common deadline.
    10.21    Relevant entities must provide sufficient time for potential suppliers to prepare and lodge submissions in response to an approach to market. Time limits discussed in this section represent minimum time limits to lodge submissions and should not be treated as default time limits.
    10.22    The time limit for potential suppliers to lodge a submission must be at least 25 days from the date and time that a relevant entity publishes an approach to market for an open tender.
    10.23    The 25 day period referred to in paragraph 10.22 must be extended by five days for each of the following circumstances:
       1. when a relevant entity does not make request documentation available electronically from the date that a relevant entity publishes an approach to market; and/or
       2. when a relevant entity does not accept submissions electronically.
    10.24    A relevant entity may establish a time limit that is less than 25 days but no less than 10 days under the following circumstances:
       1. when the relevant entity has published details of the procurement in an annual procurement plan on AusTender, at least 40 days and not more than 12 months in advance, and those details include a description of the procurement, the timing of the approach to market and the procedure to obtain request documentation;
       2. when the relevant entity procures commercial goods and services (unless the relevant entity does not accept the submissions electronically, in which case the minimum time limit must be no less than 13 days); or
        3. when a genuine state of urgency renders the normal time limit impracticable.
    10.25    In the case of a multi‑stage procurement, each approach to market must comply with the time limits stated in paragraph 10.22 - 10.24.
    10.26    When a relevant entity intends to specify conditions for participation that require potential suppliers to undertake a separate registration procedure, the relevant entity must state the time limit for responding to the registration in the approach to market. Any such conditions for participation must be published in sufficient time to enable all potential suppliers to complete the registration procedures within the time limit for the procurement.
    10.27    When a relevant entity extends the time limit for registration or submission, or when negotiations are terminated and potential suppliers are permitted to lodge new submissions, the new time limit must apply equitably.

Late submissions
    10.28    Late submissions must not be accepted unless the submission is late as a consequence of mishandling by the relevant entity. A relevant entity must not penalise any potential