8.6 Compliance with State Aid and Public Procurement Rules

The Managing Authority will ensure that operations financed by the Funds, or receiving assistance from the EIB or from another financial instrument, will be in conformity with the provisions of the Treaty, with instruments adopted under it and with Community policies and actions in the field of competition and with procedural and material State aid rules applicable at the point of time when the public support is granted.

The Managing Authority will ensure that the European public procurement directives are complied with, in respect of the award of contracts for projects funded by European funds.

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