Registration Systems and Qualification Procedures. 1. A Party, including its procuring entities, may maintain a supplier registration system under which interested suppliers are required to register and provide certain information. 2. Procuring entities shall not adopt or apply any registration system or qualification procedure with the purpose or the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to the participation of suppliers of another Party in its procurement. 3. A procuring entity shall promptly communicate to any supplier that has applied for qualification its decision on whether that supplier is qualified. Where an entity rejects an application for qualification or ceases to recognise a supplier as qualified, that entity shall, on request of the supplier, promptly provide it a written explanation.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement
