Chapter III: Tenders submitted by economic operators or including products from third countries

Defence or security contracts excluded or exempted from the Agreement on procurement or from another equivalent international agreement to which the European Union is a party shall be awarded to economic operators from Member States of the European Union.The purchaser may, however, authorise, on a case-by-case basis, economic operators from a country outside the European Union to take part in an award procedure.The purchaser’s decision shall take into account, in…

For the purposes of this Book, States which are parties to the European Economic Area and which are not members of the European Union shall be treated in the same way as Member States of the European Union.