24In view of the wording of Article 9(b) of Directive 71/305, the Italian Government was obliged, in order to justify recourse to a private contract procedure for the works in question, not only to establish the existence of ‘technical reasons’ within the meaning of that provision, but also to prove that those ‘technical reasons’ made it absolutely essential that the contract in question be awarded to the undertaking Rozzi Costantino, which was responsible for the works in progress.
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