Government Procurement Agreement

Contracting parties

Observer in accession negotiations

Observer only

The agreement on government procurement (Engl. Government Procurement Agreement , GPA short) is an international plurilateral agreements between parties to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which regulates access to public contracts. The GPA, like the establishment of the WTO, was decided on April 15, 1994 and came into force on January 1, 1996.

Contracting parties

By July 2016, the following 19 parties had signed the agreement:

• Armenia
• Aruba
• The European Union and with it its 27 member states
• Hong Kong
• Iceland
• Israel
• Japan
• Canada
• Liechtenstein
• Moldova
• Montenegro
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Switzerland
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Ukraine
• The United States of America

Another 31 states have observer status . Ten of them (Albania, Australia, China, Georgia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, Oman, Russia and Tajikistan) are negotiating accession.

Web links

• Side of the WTO (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Parties, observers and accessions. World Trade Organization , accessed December 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Art. 216 para. 2 TFEU