RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE GPA/W/12/Add.2
4June1996
ORGANIZATION(96-2093)
Original: English Committee onGovernment Procurement
THE THRESHOLDS INAPPENDIX IOFTHE AGREEMENT ASEXPRESSED
INNATIONAL CURRENCIES FOR 1996/1997
Inpursuance oftheagreed procedures (GPA/1, Annex 3),delegations havebeeninvited to
notify theirrespective national thresholds fortheperiod 1996-1997.
Theinformation notified inresponse bytheEuropean Community isreproduced below. Other
submissions willbecompiled infurther addenda tothisdocument.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Threshold1calculations -forperiod 1996-1997.
SDR 130.000 200.000 400.000 5.000.000
ECU 137.537 211.595 423.191 5.289.883
Franc Belge/
Franc
Luxembourgeois5.431.710 8.356.477 16.712.955 208.911.935
Dansk Krone 1.031.998 1.587.689 3.175.378 39.692.229
Deutsche Mark 262.118 403.259 806.518 10.081.479
Drachmi 39.896.348 61.378.996 122.757.993 1.534.474.906
Franc Français 905.295 1.392.762 2.785.524 34.819.045
Markka 841.359 1.294.398 2.588.796 32.359.951
Nederlandse gulden 293.888 452.135 904.271 11.303.384
Irish Pound 110.418 169.873 339.746 4.246.831
LiraItaliana 273.070.685 420.108.747 840.217.493 10.502.718.666
Öster. Schilling 1.843.988 2.836.904 5.673.809 70.922.606
1Thecalculation ofthethresholds oftheWTO Agreement, expressed inecusandinnational currencies, hasbeen
based ontheaverage monthly SDR toECU exchange rateover24months from September 1993 through August 1995 (1
ECU -0.836461 SDR).
Thevalue ofthethresholds inecusandinnational currencies hasbeenexpressed without thevalue-added tax(VAT)
because theCommunity excludes VAT when calculating thevalue ofcontracts.
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Pound Sterling 108.667 167.180 334.359 4.179.490
Peseta 22.001.042 33.847.757 67.695.513 846.193.915
Escudo 27.024.493 41.576.143 83.152.287 1.039.403.582
Svensk Krona 1.282.640 1.973.292 3.946.584 49.332.297