Article 12 stipulates that Member States, in granting concessions, ‘shall apply a selection procedure to potential candidates which provides full guarantees of impartiality and transparency, including, in particular, adequate publicity about the launch, conduct and completion of the procedure’.
Člen 12 določa, da „države članice uporabijo postopke izbora za potencialne kandidate, ki zagotavljajo popolno jamstvo za nepristranskost in preglednost, vključno in zlasti z ustrezno objavo o začetku postopka, njegovi izvedbi in zaključku“.