Notes and reports on EC/US telecoms and government procurement, stocktaking on public procurement, US Trade sanctions on procurement, information on utilities and budget for procurement, includes: Press release on Consultations on telecommunications and government procurement; Working document negotiating objectives: DG III US-EC; Background brief on the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA); Communication to the Commission by Sir Leon Brittan, M. Vanni D’Archirafi and M. Gangemann – Draft recommendation to the Council to open formal negotiations with the governments of certain third countries with a view to concluding agreements concerning access to public procurement and in particular to contracts awarded by public authorities and by entities in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications fields; Draft memo from Brittan to Dr Johann Eeckoff, State Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Affairs on the announcement by the US administration of its intention to take sanctions against the EC in the field of public procurement and lending you broad support to the Commission’s response; Draft paper on options for retaliation to US sanctions on government procurement; Document on EC-US negotiations on access to public procurement: the next steps; Draft agreement between the USA and the European Community concerning procurement; UC-EC interim deal on procurement; Final version of Memo of Understanding between the USA and the EEC on Government Procurement, 29 April 1993; Proposal for a Council regulation concerning access to public contracts for tenderers from the US

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