Order — ECLI:EU:C:2001:654
Date: 2001-12-03
Language of the case: Danish
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Free movement of goods;Measures having equivalent effect;Approximation of laws;Quantitative restrictions
Concepts: General;Contracts excluded from EU rules or subject to special arrangements, but having a cross-border interest;Definition of the needs of the contracting authority
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Denmark

Summary of the Order 
1. Preliminary rulings — Answer capable of being clearly deduced from existing case-
law — Application of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure 
(Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 104(3)) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-59/00 
2. Approximation of laws — Procedures for the award of public works contracts — 
Directive 93/37 — Scope — Works contract not exceeding the threshold value 
provided for in the directive — Excluded — Clause in the contract documents 
requiring the use for the contract of a product of a particular make, without any 
possibility of using an equivalent product — Free movement of goods — Not 
permissible 
(EC Treaty, Art. 30 (now, after amendment, Art. 28 EC); Council Directive 93/37) 
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