Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 July 2022

EPIC Financial Consulting Ges.m.b.H. v Republik Österreich and Bundesbeschaffung GmbH

Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public procurement – Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 – Not applicable to procedures for granting an interlocutory injunction and review procedures as referred to in Article 2 of Directive 89/665/EEC in the absence of an international element – Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 33 – Treatment of a framework agreement as a contract, for the purposes of Article 2a(2) of Directive 89/665 – Not possible to award a new public contract where the quantity and/or maximum value of the works, supplies or services concerned laid down by the framework agreement has or have already been reached – National legislation providing for the payment of fees for access to administrative proceedings in the field of public procurement – Obligations to determine and pay the fees for access to proceedings before the court rules on an application for an interlocutory injunction or an action for review – Non-transparent procedure for the award of a public contract – Principles of effectiveness and equivalence – Effectiveness – Right to an effective remedy – Directive 89/665 – Articles 1, 2 and 2a – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – National legislation providing for the dismissal of an action for review where the fees for access to proceedings have not been paid – Determination of the estimated value of a public contract

Joined Cases C-274/21 and C-275/21


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Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
National decision following the preliminary ruling
ECLI:AT:BVWG:2024:W131.2237371.1.00
22/05/2024 EPIC Financial Consulting External Link
National decision following the preliminary ruling
ECLI:AT:BVWG:2024:W131.2237371.3.00
22/05/2024 EPIC Financial Consulting External Link
Judgment (OJ)
02/09/2022 EPIC Financial Consulting
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2022:565
14/07/2022 EPIC Financial Consulting
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2022:565
14/07/2022 EPIC Financial Consulting
Application (OJ)
23/07/2021 EPIC Financial Consulting
Request for a preliminary ruling
28/04/2021 EPIC Financial Consulting
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

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Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.02 Judicial cooperation in civil matters
      4.06.02.01 Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments – Civil and commercial matters
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.06 Review procedures
        4.11.02.06.01 Scope
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.02 General rules applicable to public contracts
        4.11.02.02.02 Conduct of procurement procedures
          4.11.02.02.02.05 Award of contract
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.06 Review procedures
        4.11.02.06.02 Procedural rules
          4.11.02.06.02.05 Legal costs
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.47 Right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.02 General rules applicable to public contracts
        4.11.02.02.02 Conduct of procurement procedures
          4.11.02.02.02.02 Procedures
            4.11.02.02.02.02.02 Types of procedure
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.06 Review procedures
        4.11.02.06.03 Provisional measures
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.06 Review procedures
        4.11.02.06.02 Procedural rules
          4.11.02.06.02.05 Legal costs
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.02 Public procurement
      4.11.02.06 Review procedures
        4.11.02.06.02 Procedural rules
          4.11.02.06.02.05 Legal costs


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

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Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

14/07/2022


References

Publication in the Official Journal

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Name of the parties

EPIC Financial Consulting

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Taylor, Jonathan: Availability of procurement remedies in situations of extreme urgency: EPIC Financial Consulting Ges.m.b.H. v Republic of Austria and Bundesbeschaffung GmbH (C-274/21 and C-275/21), Public Procurement Law Review 2022 p. NA176-NA182 (EN)
  2. Bruyas, Pierrick: Marchés publics - Taxes de procédure, Europe 2022, n° 10 octobre, comm. 330 (FR)
  3. Taylor, Jonathan: Availability of procurement remedies in situations of extreme urgency: EPIC Financial Consulting Ges.m.b.H. v Republic of Austria and Bundesbeschaffung GmbH (C-274/21 and C-275/21), Public Procurement Law Review 2022, n° 6, p. NA176-NA182 (EN)
  4. Dero-Bugny, Delphine ; Perrin, Alix: XVII. Marchés publics - Cour de justice, 8e ch., 14 juillet 2022, EPIC Financial Consulting Ges.m.b.H. c/ Republik d’Autriche et Bundesbeschaffung GmbH, aff. jtes C-274/21 et C-275/21, ECLI:EU:C:2022:565, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2022. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2024, p. 891-893 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Bundesverwaltungsgericht - Austria

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • Freedom of movement for persons
  • - Freedom of establishment
  • Freedom to provide services
  • Approximation of laws

Provisions of national law referred to

Bundesgesetz über die Vergabe von Aufträgen (Bundesvergabegesetz 2018 – BVergG 2018) Verordnung der Bundesregierung betreffend die Pauschalgebühr für die Inanspruchnahme des Bundesverwaltungsgerichtes in den Angelegenheiten des öffentlichen Auftragswesens (BVwG-Pauschalgebührenverordnung Vergabe 2018 – BVwG-PauschGebV Vergabe 2018)

Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Huitième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Gavalec

Advocate General

Ćapeta

Language(s) of the Case

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

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