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FTAA.nggp/com/21
February 14, 2003
Original: English - Spanish
Translation: non FTAA Secretariat
FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
Twenty-First Meeting
Panama, February 10 – 14, 2003
PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ
- The Twenty-first Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Government Procurement
(NGGP) was held in Panama from February 10-14, 2003. The following countries
were in attendance: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and
United States.
- The Agenda approved for discussion is attached as
Annex I.
- The meeting considered all of the items on the agenda.
- In this occasion, there were no additional civil society contributions
on government procurement forwarded by the Committee of Government
Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society.
FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
Twenty-First Meeting
Panama, February 10 – 14, 2003
AGENDA
- Approval of the agenda
- Discussion on the following articles of the draft chapter on government
procurement
- Article X: Dissemination of laws and regulations
- Article XI: Designation of contact points
- Article XII: General principles governing procurement procedures
- Article XIII: Selective tendering
- Article XIV: Limited tendering
- Article XV: Publication of invitation to tender / participate
- Article XVI: Content of invitation to tender / participate
- Article XVII: Time periods for responses to inviting tenders / invitations to
participate
- Article XVIII: Shorter time periods
- Article XIX: Tender documentation / tender conditions / content of the tender
documentation
- Article XX: Registries, qualifications, and other conditions for participation
of suppliers
- Discussion on guidelines, procedures, and deadlines for negotiations on
market access for government procurement
- Follow up on the exchange of statistical information in conformity with the
document on the Scope and Detail of Statistical Information
- Identification by the Chair of the countries that have exchanged offers
- Follow-up request for technical cooperation or assistance that have been
submitted to the Consultative Group on Smaller Economies (CGSE) within the
framework of the Hemispheric Cooperation Program (HCP).
- Discussion on Civil Society Contributions
- Other business
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