The following public contracts are subject to the same rules:
1° Services relating to the acquisition or rental, by whatever financial means, of land, existing buildings or other immovable property, or relating to other rights over such property;
2° Services relating to research and development for which the purchaser does not acquire exclusive ownership of the results or does not entirely finance the service.
Research and development covers all activities relating to fundamental research, applied research and experimental development, including the creation of technological demonstrators, with the exception of the creation and qualification of pre-production prototypes, tooling and industrial engineering, industrial design and manufacturing. Technology demonstrators are devices designed to demonstrate the performance of a new concept or technology in a relevant or representative environment;
3° Services relating to arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution methods;
4° Services relating to passenger transport by rail or metro;
5° Financial services relating to the issue, purchase, sale or transfer of securities or other financial instruments defined inArticle L. 211-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code, to services provided by central banks or to operations carried out with the European Financial Stability Facility or the European Stability Mechanism;
6° Loan agreements, whether or not they relate to the issue, sale, purchase or transfer of securities or other financial instruments mentioned in 5°;
7° When they are entered into with a non-profit organisation or association:
a) Public contracts for fire and rescue services;
b) Public contracts for civil protection services;
c) Public contracts for nuclear safety services;
d) Public contracts for ambulance services, with the exception of those whose sole purpose is patient transport;
8° The following legal services:
a) Services for the certification and authentication of documents which must be provided by notaries;
b) Services provided by administrators, guardians or service providers appointed by a court or by law to perform specific tasks under the supervision of a court;
c) Services connected, even occasionally, with the exercise of public authority;
d) Legal services of legal representation of a client by a lawyer in court proceedings, before public authorities or international institutions or in alternative dispute resolution;
e) Legal advisory services provided by a lawyer in preparation for any of the proceedings referred to in d) of this 8° or where there are tangible indications and a strong probability that the matter to which the advice relates will be the subject of such proceedings.