25.11.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 307/7

(1)

By Decision 94/800/EC (2) the Council concluded the Agreement on Government Procurement (‘the Agreement’) (3). The Agreement should be applied to any procurement contract with a value that reaches or exceeds the amounts (‘thresholds’) set in the Agreement and expressed as special drawing rights.

(2)

One of the objectives of Directive 2014/25/EU is to allow the contracting entities which apply that Directive to comply at the same time with the obligations laid down in the Agreement. To achieve that, the thresholds laid down by that Directive for public contracts which are also covered by the Agreement should be aligned in order to ensure that they correspond to the euro equivalents, rounded down to the nearest thousand, of the thresholds set out in the Agreement.

(3)

For reasons of coherence, it is appropriate to align also the thresholds in Directive 2014/25/EU which are not covered by the Agreement. Directive 2014/25/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

As the calculation of the revised thresholds is required to be made on the basis of an average value of the euro for a certain period terminating on 31 August and the revised thresholds are to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union at the beginning of November, the urgency procedure should be applied when adopting this Regulation,

(a)

in point (a), the amount ‘EUR 414 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 418 000’,

(b)

in point (b), the amount ‘EUR 5 186 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 225 000’.