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Exceptions to calls for proposals Grants may be awarded without a call for proposals only in the following cases:

(a) for the purposes of humanitarian aid, emergency support operations, civil protection operations or crisis management aid;

(b) in other exceptional and duly substantiated emergencies;

(c) to bodies with a de jure or de facto monopoly or to bodies designated by Member States, under their responsibility, where those Member States are in a de jure or de facto monopoly situation;

(d) to bodies identified by a basic act, within the meaning of Article 58, as beneficiaries or to bodies designated by Member States, under their responsibility, where those Member States are identified by a basic act as beneficiaries;

(e) in the case of research and technological development, to bodies identified in the work programme referred to in Article 110, where the basic act expressly provides for that possibility, and on condition that the project does not fall under the scope of a call for proposals;

(f) for activities with specific characteristics that require a particular type of body on account of its technical competence, its high degree of specialisation or its administrative powers, on condition that the activities concerned do not fall within the scope of a call for proposals;

(g) to the EIB or the EIF for actions of technical assistance. In such cases, Article 199(1), points (a) to (d), shall not apply. Where the particular type of body referred to in the first paragraph, point (f), is a Member State, the grant may also be awarded without a call for proposals to the body designated by the Member State, under its responsibility, for the purpose of implementing the action. The cases referred to in the first paragraph, points (c) and (f), shall be duly substantiated in the award decision.