48By contrast, including a reference in technical specifications ‘to a specific make or source, or a particular process which characterises the products or services provided by a specific economic operator’, or ‘to trade marks, patents, types or a specific origin or production with the effect of favouring or eliminating certain undertakings or certain products’ is, in principle, prohibited under Article 42(4) of that directive.
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