在2012年7月18日举行的WTO政府采购委员会会议上，中国宣布将在今年底提交新修订的有关政府采购市场准入的出价单，这是中国在加入政府采购协议（ Government Procurement Agreement，GPA）的进程中所采取的新的行动步骤。

中国上一个出价单于2011年11月提交。目前GPA已有签约成员42个（包括欧盟及其27个成员），观察员23个，其中9个包括中国正在加入谈判中，14个尚未开始加入谈判。

详情可见：http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news12_e/gpro_18jul12_e.htm

 

China announces next step in joining Government Procurement Agreement

 

At the meeting of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement on 18 July 2012, China announced that it will make a new revised offer of market access by the end of this year, a new step in its process of acceding to the plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement.

China said it would take into account all the requests made by the parties to the GPA for an improvement of its previous offer, submitted in November 2011, which had been considered insufficient.

The Committee invited Malaysia to become an observer to the GPA and elected Bruce Christie, of Canada, to be the next chairman of the Committee to replace Nicholas Niggli, of Switzerland, who had held the post for the past five years.

The Government Procurement Agreement is a plurilateral agreement with 42 members (including the EU and its 27 states). Of the 23 observers, nine are negotiating to become full parties, and 14 others have not yet started negotiations.