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18 December 2020  
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Committee on Government Procurement  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF DOMESTIC LEGISLATION RELEVANT TO THE AGREEMENT ON 
GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT  
NOTIFICATION FROM AUSTRALIA  
The following notification, dated 18 December 2020 , is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Australia . 
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Notifying Party  AUSTRALIA  
Legal Basis   Article XXII: 5 of the revised GPA  
 Committee's Decision on notification requirements under Article s XIX 
and XXII:5 of the revised G PA (GPA/113, Annex A of Appendix 2 , 
para 1 ) 
Title of the 
notified legal text  PBD-2019-05-Enforceable Procurement Provisions  (New South Wales)  
Link to legal text  https://arp.nsw.gov.au/pbd -2019-05-enforceable -procurement -provisions  
 
Notification 
status   First notification  (i.e. new domestic legislation)  
 Change, a mendment or revision to notified legal text  
 Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  Amends legal text in place before Australia completed its accession to the 
GPA. 
Brief description of the notified lega l text  
 
This Direction sets out requirements relating to international procurement agreements which the 
New South Wales Procurement Board has specified as enforceable procurement provisions . It 
includes amendments relating to natural disaster response and implements Australia’s adjusted 
procurement thresholds for 2020 -21. 
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Date of adoption  16 September  2019 
Entry into force  29 November 20 19 
Other information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  New South Wales Treasury  
 
 
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