# Council Decision 2004/658/CFSP of 13 September 2004 on the financial provisions applicable to the general budget of the European Defence Agency, Article 65

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A call for expressions of interest shall constitute a means of preselecting candidates who will be invited to submit tenders in response to future restricted invitations to tender for contracts of a value of EUR 50 000 or more, subject to Articles 63 or 64.
2. The list drawn up following a call for expressions of interest shall be valid for no more than three years from the date on which the notice referred to in point (a) of Article 56(1) is sent to the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Any interested person may submit an application at any time during the period of validity of the list, with the exception of the last three months of that period.
3. Where a specific contract is to be awarded, the contracting authority shall invite either all candidates entered on the list or only some of them, on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory selection criteria specific to that contract, to submit a tender.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/658/annex/article/65 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-658/annex/article-65
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