Section 3: Public contracts awarded by a contracting entity to an affiliated undertaking

The rules defined in Title II apply to public contracts which, on the one hand, are concluded by a contracting entity with an affiliated undertaking or by a body formed exclusively by several contracting entities with a view to carrying out one or more network operator activities with an undertaking affiliated to one of these contracting entities and, on the other hand, have the following characteristics: 1° Public service contracts…

The following are undertakings linked to a contracting entity: 1° Undertakings whose annual accounts are consolidated with those of the contracting entity; 2° Undertakings which are likely to be, directly or indirectly, subject to the dominant influence of the contracting entity within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article L. 1212-2; 3° Undertakings which are likely to exercise a dominant influence over the contracting entity within the same meaning;…