In case C-225/98 the CJEU held that contracting authorities can award a contract on the basis of a condition related to eg combating unemployment, provided this condition is in line with all the fundamental principles of EU law, but only where the authorities had to consider two or more equivalent tenders.
I gcás C-225/98 chinn CBAE gur féidir leis na húdaráis chonraitheoireachta conradh adhámhachtain ar bhonn coinníll abhaineann, e.g., leis an dífhostaíocht achom-hrac, ar chuntar an coinníoll sin abheith ar aon dul le bunphrionsabail uile dhlí an AE, ach amháin igcás go raibh ar na húdaráis dhá thairiscint choibhéiseacha nó níos mó abhreithniú.