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Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (repealed)
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Devices for the electronic receipt of tenders, requests for participation and plans and projects in contests must at least guarantee, through technical means and appropriate procedures, that:
electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate and the forwarding of plans and projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/93/EC;
the exact time and date of the receipt of tenders, requests to participate and the submission of plans and projects can be determined precisely;
it may be reasonably ensured that, before the time limits laid down, no-one can have access to data transmitted under these requirements;
if that access prohibition is infringed, it may be reasonably ensured that the infringement is clearly detectable;
only authorised persons may set or change the dates for opening data received;
during the different stages of the contract award procedure or of the contest access to all data submitted, or to part thereof, must be possible only through simultaneous action by authorised persons;
simultaneous action by authorised persons must give access to data transmitted only after the prescribed date;
data received and opened in accordance with these requirements must remain accessible only to persons authorised to acquaint themselves therewith.
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