Includes: note on EC-US relations on public procurement: German-US agreement, EC-US Study – financing by DG1 and XV; Paper on the organisation of procurement and availability of data in the EC Member States; Letter from White to Nigel Shipman, Director of Government Supplies, Hong Kong on the reproduction of Hong Kong Government tenders in the EC official journal: note for Head of EC Delegation to Israel concerning the Israeli draft law on public procurement and discrimination against a UK tenderer for tug boats; Materials on joint EC-US study on public procurement; Note concerning the production of a guide to SME’s – actions designed to improve the access of small and medium sized enterprises to the public procurement market in the EC; Towards better information on public contracts; Memo by White on public procurement – the view from Brussels; Note on the GATT Government Purchasing Agreement – management of the conclusion of the negotiations ; Memos on GATT Government procurement and telecom procurement and Uruguay Round; Text of the introduction of information technology in government procurement; Text of briefing prepared by Sir Leon Brittan on GATT Government Procurement Agreement; Notes on EC-US and the Uruguay Round: Public procurement; Public procurement speaking note by White and memo on its understanding; Final offer of the EC in the agreement on government procurement signed Geneva, 14 Dec 1993; Letter from Harald Ernest, Government Procurement negotiator to David White (Government procurement negotiator, Permanent Delegation of the European Communities) confirming agreement on coverage under the Government Procurement of Swiss and EU; Letter to Mark Linscott, Director in the Mission of the USA in Geneva on accepting the Israeli offer and bringing a conclusion to the negotiations on the new Government Procurement Agreement, the "EU is accepting that Israel applies conditions which are not at all points applied to others": "GATT Government Procurement Agreement - Community objectives, description of agreement and evaluation of result

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