1. Concessions shall be awarded on the basis of objective criteria which comply with the principles set out in Article 3 and which ensure that tenders are assessed in conditions of effective competition so as to identify an overall economic advantage for the contracting authority or the contracting entity.
2. The award criteria shall be linked to the subject-matter of the concession, and shall not confer an unrestricted freedom of choice on the contracting authority or the contracting entity. They may include, inter alia, environmental, social or innovation-related criteria.
Those criteria shall be accompanied by requirements which allow the information provided by the tenderers to be effectively verified.
The contracting authority or the contracting entity shall verify whether tenders properly meet the award criteria.
3. The contracting authority or the contracting entity shall list the criteria in descending order of importance.
Notwithstanding the first subparagraph, where the contr
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