Division 4.2 Implementation of the Outcome of the SME Survey

The Parties shall promote the adoption of the best practices identified in the assessment of the survey to encourage and facilitate participation of SMEs of the Parties in government procurement.

With respect to other measures, the Committee shall encourage the Parties that maintain such measures to review them with a view to eliminating them or applying them to the SMEs of the other Parties. These Parties shall inform the Committee about the outcome of the review.

The Parties that maintain other measures shall include the value of the procurement subject to such measures in the statistics that they submit to the Committee pursuant to Article XVI:4 of the Agreement.

Parties may request the inclusion of such other measures in future negotiations under Article XXII:7 of the Agreement, and such requests shall be favourably considered by the Party maintaining such measures.