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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-660/annex/article-19",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/660",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 11 September 2014 on the model of funding agreement for the contribution of the European Regional Development Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development to joint uncapped guarantee and securitisation financial instruments in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises (2014/660/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-660",
  "path": "annex/article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Procurement of goods, works and services",
  "text": "19.1.The procurement of any goods, works or services by the EIF in the context of the Dedicated Window[s] shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures adopted by the EIF, taking into account the principles of transparency, proportionality, equal treatment, best value for money, avoidance of conflict of interest and non-discrimination in awarding contracts provided that, having due regard to cost and duration, sub-contracting would not lead to increased costs over direct implementation by the EIF itself. For the avoidance of doubt, such sub-contracting does not refer to the selection of Financial Intermediaries pursuant to Article 9.\n19.2.Candidates and tenderers listed in the central exclusion database set-up and operated by the European Commission under Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1302/2008 of 17 December 2008 on the central exclusion database for the purposes of managing Dedicated Window[s] shall not be retained.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Decision revoked in part (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions Rules etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/783), reg. 10(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 344, 20.12.2008, p. 12."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}