List of contracting authorities exempted from the application of this Regulation
Article 7
1. Upon a justified request by a Member State, the Commission may adopt, with a view to a fair distribution among Member States of the award procedures subject to IPI measures, a list of local contracting authorities in that Member State, within administrative units with population below 50 000 inhabitants, that are exempted from the application of this Regulation. 2. In its request, the Member State shall provide detailed information justifying the request for exemption and regarding the value of the contracts that are above the thresholds set out in Article 6(4) of this Regulation, awarded by all listed contracting authorities or contracting entities over the past three years from the 31 December preceding the request for exemption. An exemption may only be granted if the total value of contracts above the thresholds set out in Article 6(4) of this Regulation, and awarded by the contracting authorities or contracting entities which are not to be exempted, exceeds 80 % of the total value of above thresholds contracts falling within the scope of Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU awarded in the requesting Member State in the same three-year period. 3. The exemption shall be limited to what is strictly necessary and proportionate, taking into account the administrative capacity of the contracting authorities to be exempted. 4. The Commission shall inform Member States before adopting the list referred to in paragraph 1. That list, to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union , shall be valid for a period of three years and may be revised or renewed every three years upon justified request by the Member State concerned.