## 5. AUTHORISED PERSONS IN E-PRIOR 

5.1. The contractor 's legal representative shall designate one or more authorised person(s)  for each module, as defined in Article 2 of the present agreement. These persons are authorised to access to the system and, depending on the assigned roles, may sign or transmit documents through it. 

5.2. The contracting authority shall grant access to the system to the authorised person(s) designated by the contractor . For this purpose, the latter must provide the contracting authority with a list of the authorised person (s) indicating their assigned roles for each module. The list must be drawn up using the access rights forms available on the Documentation Webpage indicated in Article I.3 of the present agreement. 

The contracting authority may delegate the right to grant access to the system to the contractor 's legal representative, who may subsequently sub-delegate it to authorised persons . 

5.3. User roles enabling these e-PRIOR authorised person(s) to sign legally binding documents are granted only upon submission of supporting documents proving that the authorised person is empowered to act as a legal representative of the contractor from the date into force of the present agreement. 

For the e-Ordering  module, the contractor commits to appoint a single authorised person  as a signatory. 

5.4. The contractor 's legal representative commits to take all necessary steps to notify the contracting authority  in due time of any event affecting the list of authorised person (s). 

## 6. VALIDITY AND DATE OF ISSUANCE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS 

6.1. Any electronic document and related attachments exchanged via e-PRIOR  (or any other authorised platform) qualify as EDI message . 

6.2. The parties agree that any document exchanged through such a system: 

(a) is considered equivalent to a paper document; 

(b) is deemed to be the original of the document; 

(c) is legally binding on the parties has full effect once an e-PRIOR authorised person has performed the "sign" action in e-PRIOR; and 

(d) constitutes evidence of the information contained in it and is admissible as evidence in judicial proceedings. 

This is provided that it does not contain any dynamic features capable of automatically modifying it. 

6.3. An order is only regarded as a valid transaction once the following steps have been completed: 

a) the order  message has been successfully received by the contractor  (contract body and data appendix sent by the contracting authority  to the contractor ); 

