CELEX: 62006TJ0331
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-08
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 July 2010.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Environment Agency (AEE).#Public service contracts - EEA tendering procedure - Provision of information technology consultancy services - Rejection of the tender - Action for annulment - Jurisdiction of the Court - Award criteria set out in the tender specifications - Sub-criteria - Manifest error of assessment - Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based.#Case T-331/06.

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 July 2010 – Evropaïki Dynamiki v AEE
      (Case T-331/06)
      Public service contracts – EEA tendering procedure – Provision of information technology consultancy services – Rejection of the tender – Action for annulment – Jurisdiction of the Court – Award criteria set out in the tender specifications – Sub‑criteria – Manifest error of assessment – Duty to state reasons
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Measures producing binding legal effects – Measures adopted by the European
            Environment Agency (Art. 230 EC) (see paras 31-32, 34-35, 38-39)
      2.                     Community law – Principles – Right to effective judicial protection – Applicability to measures adopted by agencies established
            on the basis of secondary law producing legal effects vis-à-vis third parties (see paras 33, 37)
      3.                     European Communities' public procurement – Tender procedure – Selection and award criteria – Obligation of prior definition
            – Obligation to comply with the principles of equal treatment and transparency – Scope (Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Arts
            89 and 97(1); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002, Art. 138(3)) (see paras 59-61)
      4.                     Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope – Decision in a procedure for the award of a public service
            contract not to accept a tender – Assessment having regard to information at the disposal of the applicant at the time of
            the bringing of the action (Art. 253 EC; Council Regulation No 1605/2002, Art. 100(2); Commission Regulation No 2342/2002,
            Art. 149) (see paras 120-123)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION for annulment of the decision of the EEA of 14 September 2006 to reject the tender submitted by the applicant in tendering
                  procedure EEA/IDS/06/002 relating to the provision of information technology consultancy services (OJ 2006 S 118‑125101) and
                  to award the public contract to other tenderers.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      1.         Dismisses the action;
      2.         Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to pay the costs.