Article 264

The prior information notice for international calls for tender shall be sent to the Publications Office as early as possible for supply and service contracts and as quickly as possible after the decision authorising the programme for works contracts. For the purposes of this Chapter, the contract notice shall be published: at least in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the internet for international calls for tender; at least in the official gazette of the recipient State or in any equivalent publication for local invitations to tender. Where the contract notice is also published locally, it must be identical to the one published in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the internet and it must be published simultaneously. The Commission shall be responsible for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the internet. If the notice is published locally, this may be done by the entities referred to in Article 190(2)(b) of the Financial Regulation. The award notice shall be sent when the contract is signed except where, if still necessary, the contract was declared secret or where the performance of the contract must be accompanied by special security measures, or when the protection of the essential interests of the European Union, or the beneficiary country so requires, and where the publication of the award notice is deemed not to be appropriate.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.