# Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Article 8: Specific exclusions in the field of electronic communications

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

This Directive shall not apply to public contracts and design contests for the principal purpose of permitting the contracting authorities to provide or exploit public communications networks or to provide to the public one or more electronic communications services.
For the purposes of this Article, ‘public communications network’ and ‘electronic communications service’ shall have the same meaning as in Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/24/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-24/article-8
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