Case C-178/16: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 December 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Impresa di Costruzioni Ing. E. Mantovani SpA, Guerrato SpA v Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, Agenzia per i procedimenti e la vigilanza in materia di contratti pubblici di lavori servizi e forniture (ACP), Autorità nazionale anticorruzione (ANAC) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public works contracts — Directive 2004/18/EC — Article 45(2) and (3) — Conditions for exclusion from participation in public procurement — Declaration regarding the absence of convictions of former directors of the tendering company — Criminal conduct of a former director — Criminal conviction — Actual and complete dissociation between the tendering company and that director — Evidence — Assessment by the contracting entity of the requirements relating to that obligation)
Date: 2017-12-20
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: award of contract, criminal proceedings, equal treatment, managing director, principle of proportionality, tendering, works contract








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26.2.2018   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 72/9





Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 December 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Impresa di Costruzioni Ing. E. Mantovani SpA, Guerrato SpA v Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, Agenzia per i procedimenti e la vigilanza in materia di contratti pubblici di lavori servizi e forniture (ACP), Autorità nazionale anticorruzione (ANAC)
(Case C-178/16) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Public works contracts - Directive 2004/18/EC - Article 45(2) and (3) - Conditions for exclusion from participation in public procurement - Declaration regarding the absence of convictions of former directors of the tendering company - Criminal conduct of a former director - Criminal conviction - Actual and complete dissociation between the tendering company and that director - Evidence - Assessment by the contracting entity of the requirements relating to that obligation))
(2018/C 072/11)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Impresa di Costruzioni Ing. E. Mantovani SpA, Guerrato SpA

Defendants: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, Agenzia per i procedimenti e la vigilanza in materia di contratti pubblici di lavori servizi e forniture (ACP), Autorità nazionale anticorruzione (ANAC)

Intervening parties: Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua SpA, Inso Sistemi per le Infrastrutture Sociali SpA

Operative part of the judgment

Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts, in particular Article 45(2)(c), (d) and (g) of that directive, and the principles of equal treatment and proportionality, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which allows the contracting authority:






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to take into consideration, in accordance with the conditions it has laid down, a criminal conviction of the director of a tendering company, even if the conviction is not yet final, for an offence concerning the professional conduct of that company where the director ceased to perform his duties in the year preceding the publication of the tender notice, and










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to exclude that company from taking part in the tendering procedure at issue, on the ground that, by failing to declare the conviction which was not yet final, it had not fully and effectively dissociated itself from that director’s activities.






(1)  OJ C 232, 27.6.2016.