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  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1804 of 10 October 2016 on the detailed rules for the application of Articles 34 and 35 of Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (notified under document C(2016) 6351) (Text with EEA relevance)",
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  "text": "Explain the structure of demand in terms of:\n(a) the different phases of the markets, for example, take-off, expansion, maturity and decline, and a forecast of the growth rate of demand;\n(b) the importance of customer preferences, in terms of brand loyalty, product differentiation and the provision of a full range of products;\n(c) the degree of concentration or dispersion of demand;\n(d) segmentation of customers into different groups with a description of the ‘typical customer’ of each group;\n(e) the importance of exclusive distribution contracts and other types of long-term contracts;\n(f) the extent to which contracting authorities, State undertakings or similar bodies are important as a source of demand.",
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