S.L. 601.7 Art. 25Obligations relating to taxes, environmental protection, employment protection provisions and working conditions.

(1) The contracting authority or entity may state in the contract documents, or be obliged by the Director to do so, the body or bodies from which a candidate or tenderer may obtain the appropriate information on the obligations relating to taxes, to environmental protection, to the employment protection provisions and to the working conditions which are in force in Malta, or the region or locality in which the services are to be provided and which shall be applicable to the services provided during the performance of the contract.

(2) A contracting authority which supplies the information referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall request the tenderers or candidates in the contract award procedure to indicate that they have taken account, when drawing up their tender, of the obligations relating to employment protection provisions and the working conditions which are in force in the place where the service is to be provided.

(3) Sub-regulation (1) shall be without prejudice to the application of the provisions of regulation 50 concerning the examination of abnormally low tenders.

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