25As is clear from the wording of Article 57(4) of Directive 2014/24, the EU legislature intended to confer on the contracting authority, and to it alone, the task of assessing whether a candidate or tenderer must be excluded from a public procurement procedure during the stage of selecting the tenderers (judgment of 19 June 2019, Meca, C‑41/18, EU:C:2019:507, paragraph 34).
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