Directive 2014/24/EU

means the outcome of building or civil engineering works taken as a whole which is sufficient in itself to fulfil an economic or technical function;

means activities consisting in the provision of support to purchasing activities, in particular in the following forms:

means bodies that have all of the following characteristics:

means an economic operator that has sought an invitation or has been invited to take part in a restricted procedure, in a competitive procedure with negotiation, in a negotiated procedure without prior publication, in a competitive dialogue or in an innovation partnership;

means the contracting authorities listed in Annex I and, in so far as corrections or amendments have been made at national level, their successor entities;

means a contracting authority providing centralised purchasing activities and, possibly, ancillary purchasing activities;

means activities conducted on a permanent basis, in one of the following forms:

means a technical specification in the field of ICT laid down in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 1025/2012;

means the State, regional or local authorities, bodies governed by public law or associations formed by one or more such authorities or one or more such bodies governed by public law;

means those procedures which enable the contracting authority to acquire, mainly in the fields of town and country planning, architecture and engineering or data processing, a plan or design selected by a jury after being put out to competition with or without the award of prizes;

means any natural or legal person or public entity or group of such persons and/or entities, including any temporary association of undertakings, which offers the execution of works and/or a work, the supply of products or the provision of services on the market;

means electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data which is transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, by radio, by optical means or by other electromagnetic means;

means a standard adopted by a European standardisation organisation and made available to the general public,

means the documented assessment of the performance of a construction product, in relation to its essential characteristics, in accordance with the respective European Assessment Document, as defined in point 12 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means any expression consisting of words or figures which can be read, reproduced and subsequently communicated, including information transmitted and stored by electronic means;

means the implementation of a new or significantly improved product, service or process, including but not limited to production, building or construction processes, a new marketing method, or a new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations inter alia with the purpose of helping to solve societal challenges or to support the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;

means a standard adopted by an international standardisation organisation and made available to the general public,

means any document, certificate or attestation confirming that the works, products, services, processes or procedures in question meet certain requirements;

means the requirements to be met by the works, products, services, processes or procedures in question in order to obtain the label concerned.

means all consecutive and/or interlinked stages, including research and development to be carried out, production, trading and its conditions, transport, use and maintenance, throughout the existence of the product or the works or the provision of the service, from raw material acquisition or generation of resources to disposal, clearance and end of service or utilisation;

includes all authorities of the administrative units falling under NUTS 3 and smaller administrative units, as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003.

means a standard adopted by a national standardisation organisation and made available to the general public;

means any document produced or referred to by the contracting authority to describe or determine elements of the procurement or the procedure, including the contract notice, the prior information notice where it is used as a means of calling for competition, the technical specifications, the descriptive document, proposed conditions of contract, formats for the presentation of documents by candidates and tenderers, information on generally applicable obligations and any additional documents;

means a public or private body which offers ancillary purchasing activities on the market;

means contracts for pecuniary interest concluded in writing between one or more economic operators and one or more contracting authorities and having as their object the execution of works, the supply of products or the provision of services;

means public contracts having as their object the provision of services other than those referred to in point 6;

means public contracts having as their object the purchase, lease, rental or hire-purchase, with or without an option to buy, of products.

means public contracts having as their object one of the following:

includes authorities listed non-exhaustively in NUTS 1 and 2, as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council, while ‘local authorities’ includes all authorities of the administrative units falling under NUTS 3 and smaller administrative units, as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003.

means a technical specification, adopted by a recognised standardisation body, for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory, and which is one of the following:

means all contracting authorities which are not central government authorities;

means any deliverable produced by European standardisation bodies, other than European standards, according to procedures adapted to the development of market needs.

means one of the following:

means an economic operator that has submitted a tender;