Reports of Cases

2002 I-10567

Subject-matter

Preliminary ruling ─ Bundesvergabeamt ─ Interpretation of Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts ─ Scope ─ Removal over a very short distance of a central bank's facilities ─ Predominance by value of ancillary services which are non-priority services for the purposes of the directive

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Directive 92/50 : paragraphs 1, 23, 33, 36, 45, 49, 61
• Directive 92/50 -NIA : paragraphs 10, 23, 37, 47, 48, 53 - 56, 60, 65, 66
• Directive 92/50 -NIB : paragraphs 10, 11, 23, 37, 47, 48, 53 - 57, 60, 64 - 66
• Directive 92/50 -A01 : paragraph 3
• Directive 92/50 -A02 : paragraph 4
• Directive 92/50 -A07P3 : paragraphs 5, 58
• Directive 92/50 -A08 : paragraphs 6, 37, 47, 55
• Directive 92/50 -A09 : paragraphs 7, 37, 55
• Directive 92/50 -A10 : paragraphs 8, 23, 37, 48, 52, 53, 55 - 57, 66
• Directive 92/50 -A11P4 : paragraph 9
• Directive 92/50 -A14 : paragraphs 47, 48, 56
• Directive 92/50 -A16 : paragraphs 47, 48, 56
• Directive 92/50 -C20 : paragraph 33
• Directive 92/50 -C21 : paragraph 46
• Directive 92/50 -C7 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A104P3 : paragraphs 29, 32
• Directive 93/36 -A01LA : paragraph 12
• Directive 93/36 -A05P6 : paragraph 13
• Directive 93/37 -A01LA : paragraph 14
• Directive 93/38 -A01PT4 : paragraph 15
• Directive 93/38 -A14P8 : paragraph 16
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -134/97 : paragraph 25
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -178/99 : paragraph 25
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -44/96 : paragraph 45
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -76/97 : paragraphs 29, 31, 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -360/96 : paragraph 45
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -380/98 : paragraph 45
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -108/98 : paragraph 29

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 92/50 -A10
• Interprets : Directive 92/50 -NIA
• Interprets : Directive 92/50 -NIB

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 234 : point 20
  
• Directive 92/50 : points 1, 10, 28 - 30, 35, 43, 53, 58, 62
  
• Directive 92/50 -NIA : points 3, 10, 30, 42, 52, 75, 76, 79
  
• Directive 92/50 -NIB : points 3, 10, 30, 42, 52, 69, 79
  
• Directive 92/50 -A14: : points N, 2, 10, 42, 79
  
• Directive 92/50 -A16: : points N, 2, 10, 42, 79
  
• Directive 92/50 -C21 : point 2
  
• Directive 92/50 -A10 : points 4, 10, 36, 39 - 42, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 64, 79
  
• Directive 92/50 -C16 : point 34
  
• Directive 92/50 -A07P3 : point 57
  
• Directive 92/50 -A02 : point 62
  
• Court of Justice - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A104P3 : point 24
  
• Directive 77/62 : point 62
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -44/96 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -44/96 : points 13, 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -76/97 : points 13, 38, 50, 66
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -76/97 : point 66
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -111/97 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -27/98 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -81/98 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -94/99 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -324/98 : point 13
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -199/94 : point 15
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -21/94 : point 15
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -104/79 : point 22
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -244/80 : point 22
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -108/98 : points 26, 27
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -331/92 : points 31 - 33
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -3/88 : point 60
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 10/11/2000

Date of the Opinion

• 18/04/2002

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

14/11/2002

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 28 from 27.01.2001, p.15

Judgment: OJ C 323 from 21.12.2002, p.17

Name of the parties

Felix Swoboda

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Oder, Martin: Klassifizierung von Dienstleistungen nach der CPC-Nomenklatur - Anwendungsprobleme, Zeitschrift für Vergaberecht und Beschaffungspraxis 2003 p.46-49
2. Brown, Adrian: Categorisation of a Contract Comprising a Mix of Different Services: The Felix Swoboda case. Case C-411/00 Felix Swoboda GmbH v Osterreichische Nationalbank, judgment of November 14, 2002, Public Procurement Law Review 2003 p.NA28-NA33
3. Adamantidou, Elsa: Elliniki Epitheorisi Evropaïkou Dikaiou 2003 p.446-449

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Bundesvergabeamt - Austria

Subject-matter

• Freedom of establishment
  
• Freedom to provide services
  
• Approximation of laws
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Bundesgesetz über die Vergabe von Aufträgen (Bundesvergabegesetz 1993 – BVergG 1993), Paragraphen 1b und 3 Abs. 4

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

cinquième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Timmermans

Advocate General

Mischo

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• French