Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2496 of 15 November 2023 amending Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the thresholds for supply, service and works contracts, and design contests

Official Journal EN of the European Union L series 2023/2496 16.11.2023 COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2023/2496 of 15 November 2023 amending Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in respect of the thresholds for supply, service and works contracts, and design contests (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC(1), and in particular Article 17(4), second subparagraph, thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision 2014/115/EU(2), the Council approved the Protocol amending the Agreement on Government Procurement(3) concluded in the framework of the World Trade Organization. The amended Agreement on Government Procurement (‘the Agreement’) is a plurilateral instrument and its purpose is to mutually open government procurement markets among its parties. The Agreement applies to any procurement contract with a value that reaches or exceeds the amounts set therein (‘thresholds’) 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 ensure that the thresholds for supply, service and works contracts and design contests set out in Article 15, points (a) and (b), of Directive 2014/25/EU correspond to the thresholds established in the Agreement, it is necessary to revise the thresholds set out in that Directive.

(3) Article 17(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU requires that every two years the Commission revise the thresholds with effect from 1 January. Hence, the thresholds for the years 2024–2025 should apply as of 1 January 2024.

(4) The calculation of the thresholds cannot start earlier than 1 September, due to data availability. According to Article 17(3) of the Directive, the revised thresholds in euro and their corresponding values in other national currencies of EU Member States must be published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union at the beginning of November. In view of the above, and in order to meet the above-mentioned deadline, the Commission makes recourse to the urgency procedure for adopting this regulation.

(5) Directive 2014/25/EU should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 Article 15 of Directive 2014/25/EU is amended as follows:

(1) in point (a), ‘EUR 431 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 443 000’;

(2) in point (b), ‘EUR 5 382 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 538 000’.

(1) OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 243.

(2) Council Decision 2014/115/EU of 2 December 2013 on the conclusion of the Protocol Amending the Agreement on Government Procurement (OJ L 68, 7.3.2014, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 68, 7.3.2014, p. 2.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/2496/oj 1/2EN OJ L, 16.11.2023 Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2024.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 November 2023.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN 2/2 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/2496/oj