Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 7 April 2014 — MedEval — Qualitäts-, Leistungs- und Struktur-Evaluierung im Gesundheitswesen GmbH v Bundesvergabeamt
(Case C-166/14)
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Verwaltungsgerichtshof
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: MedEval — Qualitäts-, Leistungs- und Struktur-Evaluierung im Gesundheitswesen GmbH
Defendant: Bundesvergabeamt
Other parties: Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft; Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger; Pharmazeutische Gehaltskasse für Österreich
Question referred
Is EU law — in particular the general principles of equivalence and effectiveness and Council Directive 89/665/EEC 1 of 21 December 1989 on the coordination of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the application of review procedures to the award of public supply and public works contracts, as amended by Directive 2007/66/EC 2 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2007 amending Council Directives 89/665/EEC and 92/13/EEC with regard to improving the effectiveness of review procedures concerning the award of public contracts — to be interpreted as precluding a national legal situation in which an application for a declaration of an infringement of public procurement law must be made within six months of the conclusion of the contract, if the declaration of an infringement of public procurement law is a precondition not only of annulling the contract but also of bringing a claim for damages?
____________1 OJ 1989 L 395, p. 33.
2 OJ 2007 L 335, p. 31.