Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 26 February 2013 — Castiglioni v Commission

(Case T‑591/10)

Action for annulment — Action for damages — Public works contracts — Tender procedure — Construction, restructuring and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure at the Joint Research Centre’s Ispra site — Selection criteria — Rejection of the tender submitted by one tenderer and a decision to award the contract to another tenderer — New pleas in law — Action in part manifestly unfounded in law and in part manifestly inadmissible

1.                     Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Decision, in the award procedure for a public works contract, not to accept a tender — Account taken, by way of reasoning, of the replies of an institution to the requests of a discarded tenderer — Conditions — No substitution of a new statement of reasons for the initial statement of reasons — Assessment of the information available to the applicant at the time the action was brought (Art. 296 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1605/2002; Commission Regulation No 2342/2002) (see para. 27)

2.                     Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — No arguments in support of the claim — Inadmissible (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Arts 44(1)(c), and 48(2) (see paras 34, 49-51)

3.                     Judicial proceedings — Introduction of new pleas during the proceedings — Conditions — Plea based on matters revealed during the proceedings — Scope — Plea based on matters known and alleged from the bringing of the action — Exclusion — Amplification of an existing plea — Exclusion — Inadmissibility of pleas not meeting the characteristics of a new plea (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Arts 44(1)(c), and 48(2)) (see paras 34-36, 40, 41)

4.                     Actions for annulment — Subject matter — Decision based on several pillars of reasoning, each sufficient to justify the operative part — Decision, in the award procedure for a public works contract, not to accept a tender — Pleas relating to an error or other illegality affecting just one of those pillars — Plea not entailing the annulment of the decision (Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1605/2002; Commission Regulation No 2342/2002) (see paras 44, 45)

5.                     Actions for damages — Jurisdiction of the EU judicature — Unlimited jurisdiction — Direction issued to an institution to repair the alleged damage — Not permissible (Art. 340, second para., TFEU) (see para. 58)

6.                     Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Identification of the subject matter of the dispute — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Action for compensation for damage caused by an EU institution — Lack of precision as to the damage suffered — Inadmissible (Art. 340 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 59, 60)

Re:

First, application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 29 October 2010 rejecting the tender submitted by the applicant in tendering procedure ISM/2010/C05/004/0C concerning a multiple framework agreement for works to construct, restructure and maintain buildings and infrastructure at the Commission’s Joint Research Centre’s Ispra site, of the decision to award the contract to another tenderer and of the contract notice and, second, an application for damages.

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Castiglioni Srl is ordered to pay the costs, including those relating to the interlocutory proceedings.