RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGPA/W/66/Add.6
15 July 1998
(98-2800)
Committee on Government Procurement Original:  English
THE THRESHOLDS IN APPPENDIX I OF THE AGREEMENT AS EXPRESSED
IN NATIONAL CURRENCIES FOR 1998/1999
Addendum
NORWAY
In pursuance of the agreed procedures (GPA/1 , Annex 3), delegations have been invited to
notify their respective national thresholds for the period 1998-1999.
The information notified by Norway is reproduced below.
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The calculation of the threshold values of the WTO Agreement in NOK has been based on the
average daily exchange rates for SDR to ECU and ECU to NOK over 24 months from
September 1995 through August 1997.  The average exchange rates are:
1 SDR = 1.03011 ECU
1 ECU = 8.14790 NOK
thus, 1 SDR = 8.39322 NOK
These exchange rates give the following threshold values:
Supplies and
Services Annex 1
entitiesSupplies and
services Annex 2
entitiesSupplies and
services Annex 3
entitiesWorks
All entities
Threshold in GPA
in SDR
Threshold in GPA
in NOK130,000
1,091,118200,000
1,678,643400,000
3,357,2865,000,000
41,966,072
Threshold in EEA
in ECU
Threshold in EEA
in NOK200,000
1,629,580200,000
1,629,580400,000
3,259,1605,000,000
40,739,500
Threshold in
Norway in NOK1,000,000 1,600,000 3,200,000 40,000,000
The value of SDR in NOK has on average been higher than the value of ECU in NOK in the
24 months on which the calculation is based, making the GPA threshold higher than the thresholds forthe EEA/EU;  except for Annex 1 entities, which have a comparably lower threshold by the GPA than
by EEA.  In order to comply with both the WTO-GPA and the EEA Agreement with a single set of
threshold values, Norway has determined to set rounded thresholds based on the lowest threshold
values for Annex 2 and Annex 3 entities and for works contracts.
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