Reports of Cases

2000 I-11037

Subject-matter

Preliminary ruling ─ Bundesvergabeamt ─ Interpretation of Community law, in particular Council Directive 92/50/EEC relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts and Articles 90 and 59 et seq. of the EC Treaty (now Articles 86 and 49 EC et seq), with respect to national legislation which in principle allows public undertakings or bodies or those receiving public subsidies to take part in procedures for the award of public contracts

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59 : paragraphs 1, 16, 20, 33, 36, 38
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 92 : paragraphs 18, 19
• Directive 92/50 : paragraphs 1, 3, 16, 20, 24, 29, 32
• Directive 92/50 -A03P1 : paragraph 9
• Directive 92/50 -A03P2 : paragraphs 9, 24
• Directive 92/50 -A06 : paragraph 10
• Directive 92/50 -A37 : paragraph 11
• Directive 92/50 -A01LB : paragraphs 5, 6
• Directive 92/50 -A01LC : paragraphs 7, 28
• Directive 92/50 -A01LD : paragraph 8
• Directive 92/50 -C2 : paragraph 3
• Directive 92/50 -C6 : paragraph 4
• Directive 92/50 -C20 : paragraph 4
• Directive 92/50 -A23 : paragraph 27
• Directive 92/50 -A29 : paragraph 27
• Directive 93/36 : paragraph 40
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -107/98 : paragraph 40

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 92/50
• Interprets : EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59 : points 14, 17, 19, 39
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 59 -L1 : point 20
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 60 : point 22
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 92 : points 100, 101
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 92 -P2 : point 102
  
• EC Treaty (Maastricht), Article 92 -P3 : point 102
  
• Directive 92/50 : points 3, 14
  
• Directive 92/50 -A03P1 : points 6, 95
  
• Directive 92/50 -A03P2 : points 6, 94, 111, 128
  
• Directive 92/50 -A06 : points 7, 85 - 93, 106
  
• Directive 92/50 -A37 : points 8, 118, 126
  
• Directive 92/50 -A01LA : point 48
  
• Directive 92/50 -A01LB : point 88
  
• Directive 92/50 -C1 : point 4
  
• Directive 92/50 -C2 : point 4
  
• Directive 92/50 -C6 : point 5
  
• Directive 92/50 -C20 : point 5
  
• Directive 92/50 -C8 : point 48
  
• Directive 89/38 -A34P5 : point 114
  
• Directive 93/36 : point 49
  
• Directive 93/37 -A01LB : point 88
  
• Directive 90/351 -A04P1 : point 95
  
• Directive 71/305 : point 95
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -212/97 : point 21
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -110/78 : point 21
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -360/89 : point 26
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -275/98 : point 43
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -107/98 : points 49, 53, 54, 58, 66, 71, 72
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -108/98 : point 50
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -108/98 : point 50
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -44/96 : point 88
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -84/94 : point 95
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -243/89 : point 95
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -39/94 : points 101, 102
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 17/03/1999

Date of the Opinion

• 15/06/2000

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

07/12/2000

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 160 from 05.06.1999, p.6

Judgment: OJ C 108 from 07.04.2001, p.1

Name of the parties

ARGE

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Greco, Guido: Gli affidamenti "in house" di servizi e forniture, le concessioni di pubblico servizio e il principio della gara, Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario 2000 p.1461-1469
2. Claisse, Yves: L'attribution d'un marché public à un organisme subventionné: jamais interdite mais pas toujours possible, Petites affiches. La Loi / Le Quotidien juridique 2001 nº 56 p.16-20
3. Öhler, Matthias: The Position of Semi-Public Tenderers in an Award Procedure under the E.C. Procurement Directives: A Note on Case C-94/99, Public Procurement Law Review 2001 p.NA54-NA56
4. Schramm, Johannes ; Lutz, Christian: Gemischter Wettbewerb im öffentlichen Auftragswesen, European Law Reporter 2001 p.182-183
5. Volpe, Luigi: SubvenzionRecht v. Konkurrenzfähigkeit: l'incerto equilibri comunitario tra aiuti pubblici e concorrenza nel settore dei servizi, Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo 2001 p.346-357
6. Adamantidou, Elsa: Nomologiakes exelixeis stis koinotikes dimosies symvaseis, Nomiko Vima 2002 p.920-947
7. Soncini, Andrea: Gli affidamenti in house: rassegna della giurisprudenza comunitaria sino alla sentenza Tragsa II del 2007, Diritto comunitario e degli scambi internazionali 2007 p.281-317

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 – BVergG), Paragraph 16

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

sixième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Gulmann

Advocate General

Léger

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• French