TITLE II

RULES ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS
CHAPTER II

Scope
Section 3

Excluded contracts

Secret contracts and contracts requiring special security measures
Article 14
This Directive shall not apply to public contracts when they are declared to be secret, when their performance must be accompanied by special security measures in accordance with the laws, regulations or administrative provisions in force in the Member State concerned, or when the protection of the essential interests of that Member State so requires.