Public Procurement ActCommission proposal · COM(2026) 590 final · 2026/0265 (COD)
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Article 71Determining the scope of coverage for third-country covered economic operators, goods, services or works

1.The Commission shall establish and make available free of charge a publicly accessible online tool, which sets out, in a comprehensive and up-to-date manner, the Union’s public procurement commitments in international agreements referred to in Article 70.

2.Public buyers shall determine, for the purposes of a given procurement procedure, which economic operators, goods, services and works are covered in accordance with Article 70, on the basis of the applicable international agreements as reflected in the online tool referred to in paragraph 1 for the parameters entered, including the public buyer concerned, the subject-matter and the estimated value of the contract in relation to the applicable thresholds.

3.The Commission shall keep the online tool updated to reflect fully and at any given time the Union’s commitments in the field of public procurement, including:

(a)Union acts, in particular Commission decisions to exclude in whole or in part, a third country’s economic operators, goods, services or works from public procurement procedures in the Union, in accordance with the applicable EU legislation;

(b)Union measures with regard to covered economic operators, goods, services or works, in accordance with Article 72.

(c)Union measures with regard to non-covered economic operators, goods, services or works, in accordance with Article 75.

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