   
  
WT/DSB/82  
GPA/154  
 
11 February 2021  
(21-1182) Page: 1/1 
Dispute Settlement Body  
Committee on Government Procurement  Original: English   
 
 
 APPENDIX 1 OF THE  DISPUTE SETTLEMENT UNDERSTANDING  
The following letter  dated 10 February 2021, from the Chairman of the Committee on Government 
Procurement to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body is circulated to Members for 
information.  
 
_______________  
 
 
As you know, Appendix 1 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) o n agreements covered 
by the DSU refers, under letter C ("Plurilateral Trade Agreements"), to the "Agreement on 
Government Procurement".  
 
As Chair of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement, it is my pleasure to inform the Dispute 
Settlement Body that on 1 January 2021, the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) done 
at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GPA 1994) was replaced by  the Agreement on Government 
Procurement as amended by the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement, 
done at Gene va on 30 March 2012 ("amended Agreement") .1 This is because, on that date, the 
amended Agreement came into force for Switzerland (the last Party to the GPA 1994 to accept the 
amended Agreement).  
 
Accordingly, the "Agreement on Government Procurement" refe rred to in Appendix 1(C) of the DSU 
is now the amended Agreement for all GPA Parties.  
 
I also take this opportunity to recall that in accordance with Appendix 2 of the DSU, the Committee 
on Government Procurement notified the DSB of "special or additional rules or procedures" 
(Article  1.2 of the DSU) contained in the amended Agreement in a letter from the Chair 
dated  24 November 2015 ( WT/DSB/68  and GPA/135 ).  
 
 
__________  
 
1 The opening paragraph of the 2012 Protocol provides that " [t]he Preamble, Articles I through XXIV, 
and Appendices to the 1994 [Government Procurement] Agreement shall be  deleted and replaced by the 
provisions as set forth in the Annex hereto" . 