Documents concerning activites in the area of public procurement when White was Head of Unit for Public Procurement Policy, with various notes on progress of GATT - GPA, reports of meetings, prospects, progress of negotiations, draft texts of articles of Agreement, includes: Note for the file on bilateral discussions EC-US on GATT Government Procurement Code; Speech by White at Belfast, February 1991 at NCIS seminar "Europe in the Mid-1990’s"; Note by White on the situation of the White Paper on the Internal Market; Note for Vice-President Gangemann – "GATT Government Procurement Agreement – Understanding with the US Authorities"; Document by White "Why a Public Procurement Programme?"; Note on EEA public procurement – Norwegian request for a safeguard clause on oil or gas; Amended proposal for a Council Directive presented by the Commission – Coordinating the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the application of Community rules on the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors ; Note on GATT Code: non-application by Spain, Portugal and Greece; Briefing note for Uruguay Round, May 1991 on GPA; Paper on Government Procurement Code Negotiations "Achieving a balance of opportunities in government procurement"; Copy of letter from F. Andriessen, Vice-President with special responsibility for external relations and commercial policy to Ambassador Carla Hills, US Trade Representative commenting on the bilateral market access negotiations, the US telecommunications market and the Government Procurement talks; Questions for the US delegation concerning the 1989 US GATT report on the GPA; Speaking note for the Internal Market Council – Public Procurement Service: Concessions; Document on Typology of Contracts

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