# Council Directive 92/13/EEC of 25 February 1992 coordinating the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the application of Community rules on the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors, Article 2b: Derogations from the standstill period

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

Member States may provide that the periods referred to in Article 2a(2) of this Directive do not apply in the following cases:
(a) if Directive 2014/25/EU or, where relevant, Directive 2014/23/EU does not require prior publication of a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union ;
(b) if the only tenderer concerned within the meaning of Article 2a(2) of this Directive is the one who is awarded the contract and there are no candidates concerned;
(c) in the case of specific contracts based on a dynamic purchasing system as provided for in Article 52 of Directive 2014/25/EU.
If this derogation is invoked, Member States shall ensure that the contract is ineffective in accordance with Articles 2d and 2f of this Directive where:
there is an infringement of Article 52(6) of Directive 2014/25/EU, and
the contract value is estimated to be equal to or to exceed the thresholds set out in Article 15 of Directive 2014/25/EU.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/13/article/2b (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-13/article-2b
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