# Council Decision 2004/658/CFSP of 13 September 2004 on the financial provisions applicable to the general budget of the European Defence Agency, Article 83

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

1. All requests to participate and tenders that satisfy the requirements of Article 82(1) and (2) shall be opened.
2. Where the value of a contract exceeds the threshold laid down in Article 66(2), the authorising officer responsible shall appoint a committee to open the tenders.
The committee shall be made up of at least three persons representing at least two organisational entities of the Agency with no hierarchical link between them. Those persons shall avoid any conflict of interests.
3. One or more members of the opening committee shall initial the documents proving the date and time of despatch of each tender.
They shall also initial:
(a) either each page of each tender; or
(b) the cover page and the pages containing the financial details of each tender, the integrity of the initial tender being guaranteed by any appropriate technique employed by a department that is independent of the authorising department.
Where the contract is awarded under the automatic award procedure in accordance with point (a) of Article 77(1), the prices quoted in tenders satisfying the requirements shall be made public.
The members of the committee shall sign the written record of the opening of the tenders received, which shall identify those tenders which satisfy the requirements and those which do not, and which shall give the grounds on which tenders were rejected for non-compliance, by reference to the methods of submitting tenders referred to in Article 82.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/658/annex/article/83 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-658/annex/article-83
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