The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012

Statistical and other reports

38.—(1) A utility must each year, by the date notified to it by the Minister, send to the Minister a report specifying—

(a) the aggregate value (estimated if necessary) of the consideration payable under contracts awarded in the previous year which have been excluded from the operation of these Regulations by regulation 11 for the purpose of carrying out the activities in each Part of Schedule 1 in which the utility is specified; and

(b) the type of activities for which those contracts were awarded.

(2) A utility, when requested, must for the purpose of informing the Commission send to the Minister a report—

(a) containing such information as the Minister may from time to time require in respect of a particular contract (including contracts excluded or exempted from the application of all or some of these Regulations by regulation 6, 7, 8, 9 or 11);

(b) specifying which of its activities it considers are not activities specified in the Part of Schedule 1 in which the utility is specified, or are activities outside the territory of the Communities not involving the physical use of a network or geographical area within the Communities; and

(c) specifying the categories of goods, work, works or services it considers comprise the goods, work, works or services which it acquires in order to sell, hire or provide them to another person, but which it does not have a special or exclusive right to sell, hire or provide and which other persons are free to sell, hire or provide under the same conditions.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a utility specified in Parts A to F, O, P, R or S of Schedule 1 must, not later than 31st July in each year, send to the Minister a report specifying in relation to each contract awarded by it in the previous year (including contracts excluded or exempted from the application of some or all of these Regulations by regulation 6, 7, 8, 9 or 11)—

(a) the value (estimated if necessary) of the consideration payable under the contract;

(b) the principal category of works or services carried out or to be carried out under the contract according to the nomenclature used in Schedule 2 or 3 or the type of goods purchased or hired under the contract; and

(c) the nationality of the economic operator to which the contract was awarded and the relevant State in which that economic operator is established.

(4) The report referred to in paragraph (3) need not include information concerning contracts for—

(a) research and development services specified in category 8 of Part A of Schedule 3;

(b) telecommunications services specified under CPV references 64221000-1, 64227000-3, 64228000-0, 64228100-1 and 64228200-2 within category 5 of Part A of Schedule 3; or

(c) the services specified in Part B of Schedule 3.

(5) A utility may indicate that any of the information in a report sent to the Minister in accordance with paragraph (2)(c) is of a sensitive commercial nature, and require that it not be published.