27With a view to ensuring compliance with those principles, Article 3(2)(a) and (b) of Directive 2004/25 provides that Member States, first, must ensure that the minimal requirements laid down by that directive are observed and, second, may lay down additional conditions and provisions more stringent than those laid down by the directive for the regulation of bids.
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