33It is thus clear, as the Advocate General observed in points 35 and 36 of his Opinion, that the Member States’ discretion is not absolute and that, once a Member State decides to incorporate one of the optional grounds for exclusion provided for in Directive 2014/24, it must respect the essential characteristics thereof, as expressed in that directive. By stipulating that the Member States are to specify ‘the implementing conditions for this Article’ ‘having regard to Union law’, Article 57(7) of Directive 2014/24 prevents Member States from distorting the grounds for exclusion laid down in that provision or ignoring the objectives or principles underlying each of those grounds.
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