31In that regard, it should be borne in mind that the applicable directive is, as a rule, the one in force when the contracting authority chooses the type of procedure to be followed and decides definitively whether it is necessary for a prior call for competition to be issued for the award of a public contract (judgment in Commission v Netherlands, C‑576/10, EU:C:2013:510, paragraph 52 and the case-law cited). Conversely, a directive is not applicable if the period prescribed for its transposition expired after that point in time (see, to that effect, the judgment in Commission v France, C‑337/98, EU:C:2000:543, paragraphs 41 and 42).
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