United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Model Law on Public Procurement

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 79 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 44th session, published in 2012.

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5 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations International Organizations Law Reform Model Laws Purchasing

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5 operative paragraphs

Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law for developing and adopting the draft United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Model Law on Public Procurement;³

³Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/66/17), para. 192 and annex I.

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the Model Law to Governments and other interested bodies;

Recommends that all States use the Model Law in assessing their legal regimes for public procurement and give favourable consideration to the Model Law when they enact or revise their laws;

Calls for closer cooperation and coordination among the Commission and other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active in the field of procurement law reform, in order to avoid undesirable duplication of efforts and inconsistent, incoherent or conflicting results in the modernization and harmonization of public procurement law;

Endorses the efforts and initiatives of the secretariat of the Commission aimed at increasing the coordination of, and cooperation on, legal activities concerned with public procurement reform.

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