Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 23 March 2022 – Research Consorzio Stabile Scarl, acting on its own account and as agent of the association of undertakings to be constituted (Research-Cisa) and Others v Invitalia – Agenzia Nazionale per l’Attrazione degli Investimenti e lo Sviluppo di Impresa and Others

(Case C-215/22)

Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Research Consorzio Stabile Scarl, acting on its own account and as agent of the association of undertakings to be constituted (Research-Cisa); C.I.S.A. SpA, acting on its own account and as agent of the association of undertakings to be constituted (Research-Cisa); Debar Costruzioni SpA, acting on its own account and as agent of the association to be constituted with Consorzio Stabile COM Scarl, C.N. Costruzioni Generali SpA and Edil.Co. Srl; Invitalia – Agenzia Nazionale per l’Attrazione degli Investimenti e lo Sviluppo di Impresa

Defendants: Invitalia – Agenzia Nazionale per l’Attrazione degli Investimenti e lo Sviluppo di Impresa; Debar Costruzioni SpA, acting on its own account and as agent of the association to be constituted with Consorzio Stabile COM Scarl, C.N. Costruzioni Generali SpA and Edil.Co. Srl; Consorzio Stabile Scarl, acting on its own account and as agent of the association of undertakings to be constituted (Research-Cisa); C.I.S.A. SpA, acting on its own account and as agent of the association to be constituted (Research-Cisa)

Question referred

Do Articles 63 and 71 of Directive 2014/24 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014, ¹ together with the principles of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services laid down in Articles 49 and 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (FEU Treaty), preclude an interpretation of national Italian law on necessary subcontracting under which a tenderer which does not have the mandatory qualification in one or more secondary sub-categories cannot satisfy the non-fulfilled requirement by having recourse to several subcontracting undertakings or by aggregating the amounts for which those undertakings are qualified?

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¹     Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ 2014 L 94, p. 65).