31In the fourth place, under Article 57(5) of Directive 2014/24, contracting authorities must be able to exclude an economic operator ‘at any time during the procedure’ and not only after a court has delivered its judgment, which is additional evidence of the EU legislature’s intention to enable the contracting authority to conduct its own assessment of the acts which an economic operator has committed or omitted either before or during the procurement procedure, in any of the cases referred to in Article 57(4) of that directive.
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