WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, an inspiration for the WTO as a whole — DG

Opening an event on 9 October marking 10 years since the entry into force of the Agreement on Government Procurement (2012), Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said: “The GPA 2012 introduces trade as a booster for public procurement systems. … It fosters greater transparency and accountability in procurement systems and is as much a good governance agreement as it is about market access.” The chair of the Committee on Government Procurement, Martin Zbinden, presided over the event.