Case C-425/14: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 22 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Giustizia amministrativa per la Regione Siciliana — Italy) — Impresa Edilux Srl, as the representative of a temporary joint venture, Società Italiana Costruzioni e Forniture Srl (SICEF) v Assessorato Beni Culturali e Identità Siciliana — Servizio Soprintendenza Provincia di Trapani, Assessorato ai Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, UREGA — Sezione provinciale di Trapani, Assessorato delle Infrastrutture e della Mobilità della Regione Siciliana (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public procurement — Directive 2004/18/EC — Grounds for exclusion from participation in a tendering procedure — Contract falling below the threshold of application of that directive — Fundamental rules of the FEU Treaty — Declaration of acceptance of a legality protocol on combating criminal activity — Exclusion for failure to lodge such a declaration — Whether permissible — Proportionality)
Date: 2015-10-22
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: award of contract, equal treatment, fight against crime, organised crime, principle of proportionality, tendering








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14.12.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 414/9





Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 22 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Giustizia amministrativa per la Regione Siciliana — Italy) — Impresa Edilux Srl, as the representative of a temporary joint venture, Società Italiana Costruzioni e Forniture Srl (SICEF) v Assessorato Beni Culturali e Identità Siciliana — Servizio Soprintendenza Provincia di Trapani, Assessorato ai Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, UREGA — Sezione provinciale di Trapani, Assessorato delle Infrastrutture e della Mobilità della Regione Siciliana
(Case C-425/14) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Public procurement - Directive 2004/18/EC - Grounds for exclusion from participation in a tendering procedure - Contract falling below the threshold of application of that directive - Fundamental rules of the FEU Treaty - Declaration of acceptance of a legality protocol on combating criminal activity - Exclusion for failure to lodge such a declaration - Whether permissible - Proportionality))
(2015/C 414/12)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Giustizia amministrativa per la Regione Siciliana

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Impresa Edilux Srl, as the representative of a temporary joint venture, Società Italiana Costruzioni e Forniture Srl (SICEF)

Defendants: Assessorato Beni Culturali e Identità Siciliana — Servizio Soprintendenza Provincia di Trapani, Assessorato ai Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, UREGA — Sezione provinciale di Trapani, Assessorato delle Infrastrutture e della Mobilità della Regione Siciliana

Other party to the main proceedings: Icogen Srl

Operative part of the judgment

The fundamental rules and general principles of the FEU Treaty, in particular the principles of equal treatment and of non-discrimination and the consequent obligation of transparency, must be interpreted as not precluding a provision of national law under which a contracting authority may provide that a candidate or tenderer be automatically excluded from a tendering procedure relating to a public contract for not having lodged, with its tender, a written acceptance of the commitments and declarations contained in a legality protocol, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, the purpose of which is to prevent organised crime from infiltrating the public procurement sector. However, inasmuch as that protocol contains declarations that the candidate or tenderer is not in a relationship of control or of association with other candidates or tenderers, has not concluded and will not conclude any agreement with other participants in the tendering procedure and will not subcontract any type of tasks to other undertakings participating in that procedure, the lack of such declarations is not to lead to the automatic exclusion of the candidate or tenderer from that procedure.


(1)  OJ C 431, 1.12.2014.