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(1) By Decision 2014/115/EU, the Council approved the Protocol amending the Agreement on Government Procurement 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’) expressed as special drawing rights. 

(2) In accordance with Article 68(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC, the thresholds laid down in that Directive are to be aligned to the thresholds laid down in Article 15, points (a) and (b), of Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and the Council after the latter have been revised, where necessary, to correspond to the thresholds set out in the Agreement. The thresholds laid down in Directive 2014/25/EU have been revised by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2150. 

(3) In accordance with Article 17(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU, the Commission is to revise the thresholds laid down in Article 15, points (a) and (b), of that Directive every two years, with the effect from 1 January. Hence, the thresholds for the years 2026- 2027 set out in this Regulation should apply as from 1 January 2026. 

(4) The data necessary for the calculation of the thresholds were not available by 1 September 2025. In accordance with Article 68(3) of Directive 2009/81/EC, the revised thresholds in euro and their corresponding values in other national currencies of the Member States are to be published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union at the beginning of November. In view of the above, the Commission makes recourse to the urgency procedure provided for in Article 66b of that Directive. 

(5) Directive 2009/81/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,