Article 84 · Contracts awarded in a joint venture

1.This Regulation does not apply to public contracts awarded by:

(a)a joint venture, formed exclusively by a number of contracting entities for the purpose of carrying out activities described in Article 12 to 18, to one of those contracting entities, provided that the joint venture has been set up in order to carry out the activity concerned over a period of at least three years and that the instrument setting up the joint venture provides that the contracting entities, which form it, will be part thereof for at least the same period;

(b)a contracting entity which forms part of a joint venture referred to in point (a) to that joint venture.

2.The Commission may request evidence which demonstrates that the relationship between the joint venture to which the contracts are awarded and the contracting entity complies with the requirements set out in paragraphs 1.