The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Conditions relating to the GPA and other international agreementsS

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41.[F1(1)]  In so far as they are covered by Annexes 3 to 7 to the [F2United Kingdom]’s Appendix I to the GPA and by the other international agreements by which the [F2United Kingdom] [F3was, immediately before IP completion day, bound], a utility must accord to the works, supplies, services and economic operators of the signatories to those agreements treatment no less favourable than the treatment accorded to the works, supplies, services and economic operators of the [F2United Kingdom].

[F4(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

(a)each country that was a member State immediately before IP completion day is deemed to be a signatory to the GPA, and

(b)the EU’s Appendix 1 to the GPA has effect as if each such country were referred to in the same way that Iceland is referred to in the following places in that Appendix—

(i)paragraph 2(a) of Annex 1,

(i)Annex 6.]