A/RES/48/33 Page 2 Being convinced that the Model Law on Procurement of Goods and Construction of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law 1/ will significantly assist all States, including developing countries and States whose economies are in transition, in enhancing their existing procurement laws and formulating procurement laws where none presently exist, 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the completion and adoption by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law of the Model Law on Procurement of Goods and Construction together with the Guide to Enactment of the Model Law; 2/ 2. Recommends that, in view of the desirability of improvement and uniformity of the laws of procurement, States give favourable consideration to the Model Law when they enact or revise their procurement laws; 3. Recommends also that all efforts be made to ensure that the Model Law together with the Guide become generally known and available. 73rd plenary meeting 9 December 1993 _________ 1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/48/17), chap. II. 2/ Ibid., paras. 218-258.