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The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 

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# PUBLIC PROCUREMENT 

# 2021 No. 573 

The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1)(a), 4(1)(c) and 5(1) of the Trade Act 2021( a ). 

## Citation, commencement and extent 

## PART 1 

## GENERAL 

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 11th June 2021. 

(2) The amendments made by these Regulations have the same extent as the provisions to which they relate. 

## PART 2 

## AMENDMENT OF UNITED KINGDOM SECONDARY LEGISLATION 

## Amendments to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 

2. —(1) The Public Contracts Regulations 2015( b ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 2 (definitions), in paragraph (1)— 

(a) in the definition of “GPA”, for “between certain parties to the World Trade Organisation signed in Marrakesh on 15th April 1994 as amended before IP completion day” substitute “signed at Marrakesh on 15th April 1994, as amended on or before the United Kingdom’s accession”; 

(b) after the definition of “GPA” insert— ““GPA party” means any country, state or separate customs territory that is— 

