PART IIIPROCEDURES LEADING TO THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT

Periodic indicative notices

13.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, a utility shall, at least once every12 months, send to the Official Journal a notice, in a form substantially corresponding to that set out in Part A of Schedule 4 and containing the information therein specified, in respect of—

(a)the supply contracts which the utility expects to award during the period of 12 months beginning with the date of the notice; and

(b)the works contracts which the utility expects to award.

(2) The obligation under paragraph (1)(a) above shall apply only to those supply contracts whose estimated value (within the meaning of regulation 9 above) at the date of despatch of the notice is not less than the relevant threshold specified in regulation 9(2) above and which are for the purchase or hire of goods of a type which the utility expects at the date of despatch of the notice to purchase or hire under supply contracts which have an estimated value (within the meaning of regulation 9(3), (9) and (14) above) which in aggregate for that type of goods is, or is more than, 750,000 ECU.

(3) The obligation under paragraph 1(b) above shall apply only to those works contracts whose estimated value at the date of despatch of the notice is not less than the relevant threshold specified in Regulation 9(2) above.

(4) A notice sent to the Official Journal in accordance with paragraph (1) above need not repeat information about contracts included in a previous periodic indicative notice, provided that the notice clearly states that it is an additional notice.