48It is true that it is permissible for a Member State to provide, in the event of laying down the conditions for application of the optional ground for exclusion provided for in Article 57(4)(g) of Directive 2014/24, for a presumption that any economic operator de jure responsible for the proper performance of a public contract is deemed to have contributed, in the performance of that contract, to the significant or persistent deficiencies which resulted in the early termination of that contract having arisen or having continued. However, where that contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators whose individual contributions to those deficiencies and any efforts to remedy them are not necessarily identical, such a presumption must, if it is not to adversely affect the essential characteristics of that optional ground for exclusion and the principle of proportionality referred to in Article 18(1) of that directive, be rebuttable.
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