Case C-436/20: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 July 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana — Spain) — Asociación Estatal de Entidades de Servicios de Atención a Domicilio (ASADE) v Consejería de Igualdad y Políticas Inclusivas (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Articles 49 and 56 TFEU — Purely internal situation — Services in the internal market — Directive 2006/123/EC — Scope — Article 2(2)(j) — Public procurement — Directive 2014/24/EU — Concept of a ‘public contract’ — Articles 74 to 77 — Provision of social services in the form of personal assistance — Contractual action agreements with private, social initiative entities — Exclusion of profit-making operators — Location of the entity as a selection criterion)
Date: 2022-07-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: award of contract, invitation to tender, non-profit organisation, provision of services, public procurement, services contract, social services, tendering








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5.9.2022   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 340/10






Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 July 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana — Spain) — Asociación Estatal de Entidades de Servicios de Atención a Domicilio (ASADE) v Consejería de Igualdad y Políticas Inclusivas
(Case C-436/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Articles 49 and 56 TFEU - Purely internal situation - Services in the internal market - Directive 2006/123/EC - Scope - Article 2(2)(j) - Public procurement - Directive 2014/24/EU - Concept of a ‘public contract’ - Articles 74 to 77 - Provision of social services in the form of personal assistance - Contractual action agreements with private, social initiative entities - Exclusion of profit-making operators - Location of the entity as a selection criterion)
(2022/C 340/10)
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Asociación Estatal de Entidades de Servicios de Atención a Domicilio (ASADE)

Defendant: Consejería de Igualdad y Políticas Inclusivas

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Articles 76 and 77 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which reserves the right for private non-profit organisations to conclude, subject to a competitive bidding process, agreements under which those organisations provide social services in the form of personal assistance in return for reimbursement of the costs which they incur, irrespective of the estimated value of those services, even where those organisations do not satisfy the requirements laid down in Article 77, provided, on the one hand, that the legal and contractual framework within which the activity of those organisations is carried out contributes effectively to the social purpose and objectives of solidarity and budgetary efficiency on which that legislation is based and, on the other hand, that the principle of transparency, as specified in particular in Article 75 of that directive, is respected.










2.


Article 76 of Directive 2014/24 must be interpreted as precluding national legislation under which, in the award of a public contract for social services referred to in Annex XIV of that directive, the location of the economic operator in the place where the services are to be provided is a criterion for the selection of economic operators, prior to the examination of their tenders.






(1)  OJ C 423, 7.12.2020.