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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2025",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make substantive amendments to the Procurement Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”) and to the Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024 (“the 2024 Regulations”), as well as other amendments arising from the coming into force of the 2023 Act.\nThe purpose of the 2023 Act is to reform the United Kingdom’s public procurement regime following its exit from the European Union (EU), creating a simpler and more transparent system not based on transposed EU Directives. The 2024 Regulations supplement the 2023 Act.\nPart 2 of these Regulations amends Schedules 1 and 9 to the 2023 Act. These amendments will apply to contracting authorities that are devolved Welsh authorities or are treated as such. Regulation 3(2) and (3) amends Schedule 1, which contains threshold amounts. Those thresholds determine the value above which contracts of different types fall to be regulated by the substantive regime. The thresholds are set under the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Government Procurement. The 2023 Act was enacted with the threshold values applicable at the time; these were updated in January 2024 and regulation 3(2) ensures that the threshold figures will be appropriately updated ahead of the 2023 Act fully coming into force. Regulation 3(4) makes amendments to Schedule 9 to reflect additions and amendments to the UK’s international obligations in respect of procurement.\nPart 3 of these Regulations makes various amendments to the 2024 Regulations. These amendments are being made prior to the coming into force of the 2024 Regulations and address a small number of matters which were overlooked in those Regulations.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. It was determined that the Regulatory Impact Assessment which was carried out for the 2024 Regulations is also applicable to these Regulations and as such no further assessment is required.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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