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DIRECTIVE 2014/25/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: the aim of the procurement is the creation or acquisition of a unique work of art or artistic performance; competition is absent for technical reasons; the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights. The exceptions set out in points (ii) and (iii) shall only apply when no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement;

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