The award notice shall be sent when the contract is signed except where, if still necessary, the contract was declared secret or where the performance of the contract must be accompanied by special security measures, or when the protection of the essential interests of the Union or the beneficiary country so requires, and where the publication of the award notice is deemed not to be appropriate.
Seolfar an fógra dámhachtana nuair a shíneofar an conradh ach amháin i gcás, más gá fós, ina ndúradh go raibh an conradh rúnda nó i gcás ina gcaithfear comhlíonadh an chonartha a bheith in éineacht le bearta slándála speisialta, nó nuair a éilíonn cosaint bhunleas an Aontais, nó na tíre is tairbhí sin, agus i gcás ina meastar nach mbeadh foilsiú an fhógra dámhachtana iomchuí.