53Consequently, in order to recognise the existence of a legal group in the present case, the Commission had to determine whether the entities in question were structurally linked to the Centre, since this factor was liable to give rise to a risk of a conflict of interest or of distorted competition between the tenderers, although other factors could support the examination of structural links, such as those relating to the degree of independence of the entities in question which are described by the parties as ‘functional criteria’.
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