Schedule B - Circumstances in which the Government Procurement chapter of the AUSFTA applies [ Part 1 > Part 2 > Part 3 ]

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3. The intended procurement is not subject to exclusions or exceptions listed in the Government Procurement chapter or its annexure, within the AUSFTA:

Excluded from the Agreement (Article 15.1)	non-contractual agreements or any form of assistance that a Party or a government enterprise provides, including grants, loans, equity infusions, fiscal incentives, subsidies, guarantees, cooperative agreements, and sponsorship arrangements procurement of goods and services by a Party from its own entities and provision of goods or services by or between a procuring entity of a Party and a regional or local government of that Party purchases funded by international grants, loans, or other assistance, where the provision of such assistance is subject to conditions inconsistent with Chapter 15 purchases funded by grants and sponsorship payments from persons not listed in Annex 15-A procurement for the direct purpose of providing foreign assistance procurement of research and development services procurement of goods and services (including construction) outside the territory of the procuring Party, for consumption outside the territory of the procuring Party acquisition of fiscal agency or depository services, liquidation and management services for regulated financial institutions, and sale and distribution services for government debt
Australia specific exclusions (Annex 15A)	any form of preference to benefit small and medium enterprises measures to protect national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value measures for the health and welfare of Indigenous people measures for the economic and social advancement of Indigenous people plasma fractionation services
Queensland specific exclusions (Annex 15A)	health and welfare services education services government advertising motor vehicles
Exceptions (Article 15.12)	measures necessary to protect public morals, order or safety measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health (including environmental measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health) measures necessary to protect intellectual property measures relating to the goods or services of handicapped persons, of philanthropic or not for profit institutions, or of prison labour.

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