30It should be noted, as the Advocate General observed at point 18 of his Opinion, that the systematic use of the plural in those provisions indicates that they do not prohibit, in principle, candidates or tenderers from relying on the capacities of more than one third-party entity in order to prove that they meet a minimum capacity level. A fortiori, those provisions do not lay down any general prohibition regarding a candidate or tenderer’s reliance on the capacities of one or more third‑party entities in addition to its own capacities in order to fulfil the criteria set by a contracting authority.
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