CELEX: 62011CN0386
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-386/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 20 July 2011 — Piepenbrock Dienstleistungen GmbH & Co. KG v Kreis Düren

22.10.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/17
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 20 July 2011 — Piepenbrock Dienstleistungen GmbH & Co. KG v Kreis Düren
   (Case C-386/11)
   2011/C 311/27
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Piepenbrock Dienstleistungen GmbH & Co. KG
   
      Defendant: Kreis Düren
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Stadt Düren
   
      Question referred
   
   Is a ‘public contract’ within the meaning of Article 1(2)(a) of 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 (1) to be understood as also meaning a contract between two local authorities whereby one of them assigns strictly limited competence to the other in return for the reimbursement of costs, in particular where the task assigned concerns only ancillary business, not official activities as such?
   
      (1)  OJ 2004 L 134, p. 114.