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Reference: WLI/100   4 January 2021  
 
 
 
 
 
 
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT  
AS AMENDED BY THE PROTOCOL  DONE AT GENEVA ON 30 MARCH 2012  
NOTIFICATION OF ACCESSION  
We have the honour to inform you that, pursuant to Article XXII:2 of the Agreement on 
Government Procurement as amended by the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government 
Procurement, done at Geneva on 30 March 2012 (the "Agreement"), and the decisions o f the 
Committee on Government Procurement dated 27 February and 26 Ju ne 2019, and 7 October 2020 
(documents  GPA/CD/2, GPA/CD/2/Add.1 and GPA/CD/2/Add.2 , respectively) , the Agreement has 
entered into force for the United Kingdom  in its own right on 1 Januar y 2021 . As of the same 
date, the United  Kingdom has become a Party to the Agreement in its own right.1 
 
 This depositary notification is furnished in accordance with paragraph 17 of Article XXII of the 
Agreement  and paragraph 4 of the aforementioned  Protocol.  
 
DONE at Geneva this fourth day of January , two thousand and twenty -one. 
 
 
 
 
Yonov Frederick Agah  
  
Karl Brauner  
  
Alan Wolff  
  
Xiaozhun Yi  
Deputy Directors -General  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21-0043                 WT/Let/ 1503 
 
1 As announced (WT/Let/1498) , the instrument of accession deposited by the United Kingdom on 
2 December 2020  concerned both the Agreement on Government Procurement as amended by the Protocol 
Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement, done at Geneva on 30 March 201 2, as well as the 
Agreement on Government Procurement, done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (the "1994 Agreement"). With the 
entry into force of the aforementioned Protocol for Switzerland on 1 January 2021, all GPA Parties have accepted 
the Protocol. Accord ingly, pursuant to paragraph 1 of the aforementioned Protocol, from 1  January 2021 the 
Agreement on Government Procurement as amended by the aforementioned Protocol has replaced the 1994 
Agreement in relation to all GPA Parties  (WT/Let/1497) . 