CELEX: C2004/300/24
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 October 2004 in Case C-340/02: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 92/50/EEC — Procedure for the award of public service contracts — Assistance to the maître d'ouvrage for a sewage treatment plant — Award to the successful candidate in an earlier design contest without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEC)

4.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (First Chamber)
   of 14 October 2004
   in Case C-340/02: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 92/50/EEC - Procedure for the award of public service contracts - Assistance to the maître d'ouvrage for a sewage treatment plant - Award to the successful candidate in an earlier design contest without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEC)
   (2004/C 300/24)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-340/02: action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 24 September 2002, between Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. Nolin) and French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues, S. Pailler and D. Petrausch) — the Court (First Chamber), composed of: P. Jann, President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr and K. Schiemann (Rapporteur), Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 14 October 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by virtue of the award by the Communauté urbaine du Mans of a study contract for assistance to the maître d'ouvrage in respect of the Chauvinière sewage treatment plant, without publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Communities, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts, and in particular Article 15(2) thereof;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)   OJ C 289 of 23.11.2002.