CELEX: 62013TA0222
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-222/13: Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2014 — B&S Europe v Commission (Public service contracts — Call for tenders — Short-term services in the exclusive interest of third countries benefiting from European Union external aid — Rejection of the application — Selection criteria — Contracts divided into tranches — Reference project — Duty to state reasons — Principle of sound administration — Legitimate expectations — Principle of impartiality — Audi alteram partem rule)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2014 — B&S Europe v Commission
      (Case T-222/13) (1)
      
      ((Public service contracts - Call for tenders - Short-term services in the exclusive interest of third countries benefiting from European Union external aid - Rejection of the application - Selection criteria - Contracts divided into tranches - Reference project - Duty to state reasons - Principle of sound administration - Legitimate expectations - Principle of impartiality - Audi alteram partem rule))
      (2014/C 395/53)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Business and Strategies in Europe (B&S Europe) SA (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: L. Bihain and S. Pâques, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by A. Bordes and R. Tricot, and subsequently by R. Tricot, acting as Agents, assisted by A.-M. Vandromme and J. Stuyck, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for annulment of the Commission decision, set out in its letters of 15 February and 2 April 2013, informing the applicant that it had not been included on the list of candidates invited to participate in the restricted call for tenders concerning lot 7 of the multiple framework contract for the provision of short-term services in the exclusive interest of third countries benefiting from European Union external aid (OJ 2012/S 105-174077).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Business and Strategies in Europe (B&S Europe) SA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 164 of 8.6.2014.