Division 2 Submission of Data by the Parties

The Committee shall agree on a date by which each Party shall submit to the Committee the following information with respect to statistical data on procurement covered by the Agreement:

1. (a)

   a description of the methodology that it uses to collect, evaluate, and report statistical data, above and below Agreement thresholds and for procurement described in paragraph 4.2(c) of the SME Work Programme, including whether it bases the data on procurement covered by the Agreement on the full value of awarded contracts or the total expenditure for procurement in a given time-frame;

2. (b)

   whether the statistical data that it collects includes the country of origin of the goods or services that are procured, and if so, how it determines or estimates the country of origin, and the technical impediments in collecting country of origin data;

3. (c)

   an explanation of the classifications used in statistical reports; and

4. (d)

   a description of the sources of data.