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THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT,

NOTING that Article XXII:8(a) of the Agreement on Government Procurement (Agreement) provides that the Parties shall adopt and periodically review a work programme, including a work programme on the collection and reporting of statistical data;

CONSIDERING the importance of the collection and reporting of statistical data, as required by Article XVI:4 of the Agreement on Government Procurement (Agreement), in providing transparency of procurement covered under the Agreement;

CONSIDERING that statistical data that illustrate the extent to which the Parties procure goods and services covered by the Agreement from other Parties to the Agreement could be an important tool in encouraging other WTO Members to accede to the Agreement;

RECOGNISING the overall challenges of Parties to the Agreement in collecting data in the area of government procurement and in particular in determining the country of origin of the goods and services that they procure under the Agreement; and

RECOGNISING that Parties use different methodologies in their collection of statistics to meet the reporting requirements in Article XVI:4 of the Agreement, and may use different methodologies in the collection of data for central government entities and sub-central government entities;

HEREBY ADOPTS THE FOLLOWING WORK PROGRAMME WITH RESPECT TO THE COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF STATISTICAL DATA: