# Council Decision of 2 December 2013 establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Committee on Government Procurement with respect to the decisions implementing certain provisions of the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement (2013/756/EU), Division

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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 safety standards in international procurement;
NOTING that Article X:1 of the Agreement provides that procuring entities ‘shall not prepare, adopt or apply any technical specification with the purpose or the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade’;
NOTING that Article III:2(a) of the Agreement does not prevent Parties from imposing or enforcing measures necessary to protect of public safety, provided that such measures are not applied in a manner that would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustified discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade;
RECOGNISING the need for a balanced approach between public safety and unnecessary obstacles to international trade;
RECOGNISING that diverging practices among the Parties as regards public safety may have an adverse effect on the performance of the Agreement;
HEREBY ADOPTS THE FOLLOWING WORK PROGRAMME WITH RESPECT TO SAFETY STANDARDS:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/756/annex/G/division/1/division/n1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-756/annex-G/division-1/division-n1
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