The following are excluded from defence or security contracts:
1° Persons who have been convicted of one of the offences provided for in Articles 226-13, 222-52 to 222-59 and 413-10 to 413-12 of the French Criminal Code, Articles L. 2339-2 to L. 2339-4, L. 2339-11-1 to L. 2339-11-3 of the French Defence Code and Article L. 317-8 of the French Internal Security Code. The exclusion from the procurement procedure applies for a period of five years from the date of the judge’s decision, except where the penalty of exclusion from the procurement procedure has been imposed for a different period;
2° Persons who, by a final court decision, have been subject to civil liability for less than five years for failure to comply with their commitments in terms of security of supply or security of information, unless they have fully complied with any court decisions against them and can demonstrate, by any means, that their professional integrity can no longer be called into question;
3° Persons in respect of whom it is established, by any means and, where applicable, by protected data sources, that they do not possess the reliability necessary to avoid breaches of State security.