124The contracting authority’s obligation to protect the information deemed confidential of the economic operator to which the public contract has been awarded cannot be given so broad an interpretation that the obligation to provide a statement of reasons is thereby deprived of its essence (see, to that effect, judgment of 15 July 2021, Commission v Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and SRB, C‑584/20 P and C‑621/20 P, EU:C:2021:601, paragraph 120) and Article 1(1) and (3) of Directive 89/665, which sets out, in particular, the obligation for the Member States to provide effective review procedures, is rendered ineffective. To that end, the contracting authority may, inter alia and in so far as it is not precluded from doing so by the national law to which it is subject, communicate in summary form certain aspects of an application or tender and their technical characteristics, in such a way that the confidential information cannot be identified.
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