natečaji za načrte pomeni tiste nacionalne postopke, ki omogočajo naročniku, da pridobi, v glavnem na področjih planiranja območij, planiranja mest, arhitekture in gradbeništva, ali obdelave podatkov, plan ali načrt, ki ga izbere komisija, po razpisanem natečaju s podelitvijo nagrad ali brez njih.
design contests shall mean those national procedures which enable the contracting authority to acquire, mainly in the fields of area planning, town planning, architecture and civil engineering, or data processing, a plan or design selected by a jury after being put out to competition with or without the award of prizes.