# Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2340 of 15 December 2015 amending Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the application thresholds for the procedures for the award of contracts (Text with EEA relevance), Introduction: Introductory text

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Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2340
of 15 December 2015
amending Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the application thresholds for the procedures for the award of contracts
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC, and in particular Article 68 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
By Decision 94/800/EC the Council concluded the Agreement on Government Procurement (‘the Agreement’). The Agreement should be applied to any procurement contract with a value that reaches or exceeds the amounts (‘thresholds’) set in the Agreement and expressed as special drawing rights.
(2)
One of the objectives of Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council is to allow the contracting entities and the contracting authorities which apply those Directives to comply at the same time with the obligations laid down in the Agreement. To achieve that, the thresholds laid down by those Directives for public contracts which are also covered by the Agreement should be aligned in order to ensure that they correspond to the euro equivalents, rounded down to the nearest thousand, of the thresholds set out in the Agreement.
(3)
For reasons of coherence, the thresholds laid down by Directive 2009/81/EC should be aligned to the revised thresholds laid down in Article 16 of Directive 2004/17/EC.
(4)
Directive 2009/81/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee for Public Contracts,
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/2340/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2340/introduction
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