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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-897/article-52",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/897",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 897/2014 of 18 August 2014 laying down specific provisions for the implementation of cross-border cooperation programmes financed under Regulation (EU) No 232/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council establishing a European Neighbourhood Instrument",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-897",
  "path": "article/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Applicable rules",
  "text": "1. If the implementation of a project requires procurement of goods, works or services by a beneficiary, the following rules shall apply:\n(a) where the beneficiary is a contracting authority or a contracting entity within the meaning of the Union legislation applicable to procurement procedures, it may apply national laws, regulations and administrative provisions adopted in connection with Union legislation or rules of paragraph 2;\n(b) where the beneficiary is an international organisation, it may apply its own procurement rules if they offer guarantees equivalent to internationally accepted standards;\n(c) where the beneficiary is a public authority of a CBC partner country whose co-financing is transferred to the Managing Authority, it may apply national laws, regulations and administrative provisions, provided that the financing agreement allows it and the general principles set out in point (a) of paragraph 2 are respected.\n2. In all other cases the following obligations shall be complied with:\n(a) the contract is awarded to the tender offering best value for money, or as appropriate, to the tender offering the lowest price, while avoiding any conflict of interests;\n(b) for contracts with a value of more than EUR 60 000, the following rules shall also apply:\n(i) an evaluation committee shall be set up to evaluate applications and/or tenders on the basis of the exclusion, selection and award criteria published by the beneficiary in advance in the tender documents. The committee must have an odd number of members with all the technical and administrative capacities necessary to give an informed opinion on the tenders/applications;\n(ii) sufficient transparency, fair competition and adequate ex-ante publicity must be ensured;\n(iii) equal treatment, proportionality and non-discrimination shall be ensured;\n(iv) tender documents must be drafted according to best international practice;\n(v) deadlines for submitting applications or tenders must be long enough to give interested parties a reasonable period to prepare their tenders;\n(vi) candidates or tenderers shall be excluded from participating in a procurement procedure if they fall within one of the situations described in Article 106(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012. Candidates or tenderers must certify that they are not in one of these situations. In addition, contracts may not be awarded to candidates or tenderers which, during the procurement procedure fall within one of the situations referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012;\n(vii) procurement procedures set out in Articles 53 to 56 shall be followed.\n3. In all cases, the rules of nationality and origin set forth in Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EU) No 236/2014 shall apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/897/article/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:22.620029+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}