The Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Thresholds – Amendments to the Utilities Contracts Regulations

3.—(1) The Utilities Contracts Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 11 (thresholds)—

(a) In paragraph (2)(a), for “422,000 euro” substitute “the sum mentioned in Article 16(a) of the Utilities Directive”;

(b) In paragraph (2)(b), for “5,278,000 euro” substitute “the sum mentioned in Article 16(b) of the Utilities Directive”; and

(c) After paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) References in paragraph (2) to the Utilities Directive are references to that Directive as amended from time to time.”

(3) In paragraph (4)(b) of regulation 15 (periodic indicative notices), for “5,278,000 euro” substitute “the sum mentioned in Article 16(b) of the Utilities Directive as amended from time to time”.

(4) In regulation 34 (design contests)—

(a) In paragraph (2), for “the relevant threshold described in paragraph (4)” substitute “the sum mentioned in Article 61(1) of the Utilities Directive”.

(b) In paragraph (3)(b), for “the relevant threshold described in paragraph (4)” substitute “the sum mentioned in Article 61(2) of the Utilities Directive”; and

(c) In paragraph (4), for “the relevant threshold is 422,000 euro” substitute “references to the Utilities Directive are references to that Directive as amended from time to time”.