[F1Article 264 U.K. Advertising (Article 190 of the Financial Regulation)
1. If applicable, the prior information notice for international calls for tender shall be sent to the Publications Office by electronic means as early as possible.
2. For the purposes of this Chapter, the contract notice shall be published:
(a) at least in the Official Journal of the European Union for international calls for tender;
(b) at least in the official gazette of the recipient State or in any equivalent publication for local invitations to tender.
Where the contract notice is also published locally, it must be identical to the one published in the Official Journal of the European Union and it must be published simultaneously. The Commission shall be responsible for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . If the notice is published locally, this may be done by the entities referred to in Article 190(2)(b) of the Financial Regulation.
3. The contract award notice shall be sent when the contract is signed except where, if still necessary, the contract was declared secret or where the performance of the contract must be accompanied by special security measures, or when the protection of the essential interests of the Union, or the third country so requires, and where the publication of the award notice is deemed not to be appropriate.
4. A notice for modification of contract shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases set out in points (a) and (b) of Article 114a(3) of the Financial Regulation, where the value of the modification is equal to or greater than the thresholds laid down in Articles 265(1)(a), 267(1)(a) or 269(1)(a) of this Regulation.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2462 of 30 October 2015 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 on the rules of application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.