Regulation 3 Amendment of the Utilities Contracts Regulations

The Utilities Contracts Regulations are amended as follows.

In regulation 2(1)(interpretation), in the definition of “Common Procurement Vocabulary”, after “and of the Council on the Common Procurement Vocabulary” insert “as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 213/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No. 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) and Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurement procedures, as regards the revision of the CPV”.

For Schedule 2 (activities constituting works) substitute the Schedule contained in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

For Schedule 3 (categories of services) substitute the Schedule contained in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, but as adapted for this purpose by the substitution of the words “the utility” for the words “the contracting authority” in both places where they appear in the second column of the entry for category 8.