42As the Commission points out, the objective pursued by the Italian legislature could be achieved by less restrictive measures, as in the case of those provided for in Article 71 of Directive 2014/24 and referred to in paragraph 29 of the present judgment. In fact, as the referring court states, Italian law already provides for numerous measures explicitly intended to prohibit undertakings suspected of belonging to the mafia, or in any event of being linked to the interests of the main criminal organisations operating in the country, from having access to public tendering procedures.
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