The Public Services Contracts Regulations 1993

Official lists of recognised services providers

18.  Where a services provider is registerd on the official list of recognised services providers in a member State which maintains such lists and in which the services provider submits to the contracting authority a certificate of registration issued by the authority administering the official lists which specifies the information submitted to that authority which enabled the services provider to be registered and which states the classification given, the contracting authority, to the extent that the certificate deals with the grounds referred to in regulations 14(1)(a) to (e) and (h) to (j), 15(1)(b) and (c) and 16(1)(b)(i)—

(a) shall accept the certificate as evidence that the services provider does not fall within the grounds specified in regulation 14(1)(a) to (e) and (h) to (j) and shall not be entitled to require the services provider to submit such information relating to those grounds as is specified in regulation 14,

(b) shall not be entitled to require the services provider to provide information specified in regulations (15)(1)(b) and (c) and 16(1)(b)(i), and

(c) shall not be entitled to seek any supplementary information in accordance with regulation 17 above in relation to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above.