62021CJ0376_SUM
Case C‑376/21
Zamestnik-ministar na regionalnoto razvitie i blagoustroystvoto i rakovoditel na Upravlyavashtia organ na Operativna programa ‘Regioni v rastezh’ 2014‑2020
v
Obshtina Razlog
(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Varhoven administrativen sad)
Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 16 June 2022
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public procurement – Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 – Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 – Inapplicability to public contracts awarded by Member States and financed by resources from the European Structural and Investment Funds – Directive 2014/24/EU – Direct and unconditional reference to provisions of EU law in national legislation – Applicability to a contract whose estimated value is lower than the threshold set in the directive – Article 32(2)(a) – Option for a contracting authority to invite only one economic operator to participate in a negotiated procedure without prior publication after deeming a prior open procedure unsuccessful – Obligation to maintain the initial conditions of the contract without introducing substantial alterations)
EU budget – Financial regulation – Provisions applicable to procedures for awarding public contracts – Scope
(European Parliament and Council Regulations Nos 966/2012, Art. 102(1) and (2), and 2018/1046, Arts 2, point 51, 63(1), 160(1) and 2, and 174)
(see paragraphs 46-50, operative part 1)
Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Jurisdiction of the Court – Provisions of EU law made directly and unconditionally applicable by national legislation to situations falling outside of their scope of application – Included
(Art. 267 TFEU)
(see paragraph 55)
Approximation of laws – Procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts – Directive 2014/24 – Negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice – Contracting authority allowed to approach a single economic operator – Conditions
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/24, recitals 2 and 50 and Arts 4(c), 5, 18(1), first subpara., 26(6), and 32(2))
(see paragraphs 56, 57, 59, 61-63, 65, 70, 71, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.