Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) lodged on 7 May 2021 – Confederación Nacional de Autoescuelas (CNAE) and Others v Asociación para la Defensa de los Intereses Comunes de las Autoescuelas (AUDICA) and Others

(Case C-292/21)

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Supremo

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Administración General del Estado, Confederación Nacional de Autoescuelas (CNAE), UTE CNAE-ITT-FORMASTER-ECT

Defendants: Asociación para la Defensa de los Intereses Comunes de las Autoescuelas (AUDICA), Ministerio Fiscal

Question referred

Is a national provision pursuant to which contracts for the provision of road safety awareness and training courses for the purposes of the recovery of driving licence points must be awarded by means of a public service concession compatible with Directive 2006/123/EC, ¹ or, as the case may be, with other provisions or principles of European Union law?

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¹ Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (OJ 2006 L 376, p. 36).