<Date> 

## FORMAT OF THE DECLARATION REFERRED TO IN POINT 7 OF THE TENDER SUBMISSION FORM 

## To be submitted on the headed notepaper of the legal entity concerned 

<Name and address of the Contracting Authority - see item 1 of the Instructions to tenderers> 

## Your ref: <Reference code: AA…>; < contract title > 

Dear Sir/Madam 

In response to your invitation to tender for the above-mentioned contract, we, < full name of the legal entity making this Declaration >, hereby declare that we: 

• are making this application < please select as appropriate > [Option 1 ] [on an individual basis] / [ Option 2 ][as member of the consortium led by < name of the leader / ourselves >] for this contract. We confirm that we are not participating in any other tender for the same contract, whatever the form of participation (as a member - including leader - in a consortium or as an individual tenderer); 

• are not in any of the situations excluding us from participating in contracts which are stipulated under Article 57 of Council Directive 2014/24/EC; 

• < please select as appropriate between Option 1 and 2 > [ Option 1 ]we have not been involved in the preparation of the project which is the subject of this tender procedure [ Option 2 ] our involvement in previous stages of the project as < please specify > does not constitute unfair competition and we undertake to prove this should we be required to do so by the Contracting Authority. [ please add for both Options ] Furthermore, we declare that we have no conflict of interests or any equivalent relation in that respect with other tenderers or parties involved in this technical assistance operation and/or the underlying project at the time of the submission of this tender; 

• < please select as appropriate between Option 1 and 2 > [ Option 1 ] [have attached a current list of the enterprises in the same group or network as ourselves ] / [Op tion 2 ] [ are not part of a group or network ] [ please add for both Options ]and have only included data in the application form concerning the resources and experience of < please select as appropriate > [our legal entity] / [our legal entity and the entities for which we attach a written undertaking]; 

• [ if applicable ]wish to rely on the < please specify type: financial, professional etc > capacities of < name of the economic operator on whose capacities the tenderer relies > and have attached in this respect an undertaking from this company; 

• will inform the Contracting Authority immediately if there is any change in the above circumstances at any stage during the tender procedure and/or during the implementation of the tasks; and 

• fully recognise and accept that if we participate in spite of being in any of the situations stipulated under Article 57 of Council Directive 2014/24/EC or if the declarations or information provided prove to be false, we may be subject to rejection from this procedure; 

• are aware that, for the purposes of safeguarding the financial interests of the Communities, our personal data may be transferred to internal audit services, to the European Court of Auditors, to the Financial Irregularities Panel or to the European Anti-Fraud Office. 

• are aware that our key experts may have signed Statements of Exclusivity and Availability for other tender procedures and that the expert will notify us and the Contracting Authority should he/she receive a confirmed engagement 1 in another tender, according to the Statement of Exclusivity and Availability, and the consequence is that our tender may be rejected in this tender procedure. We recognise that our tender and the expert may be 

