CELEX: 62019CA0598
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-598/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco — Spain) — Confederación Nacional de Centros Especiales de Empleo (Conacee) v Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public procurement — Directive 2014/24/EU — Article 20 — Reserved contracts — National legislation reserving the right to participate in certain public procurement procedures to Social initiative special employment centres — Additional conditions not provided for by the directive — Principles of equal treatment and proportionality)

29.11.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 481/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco — Spain) — Confederación Nacional de Centros Especiales de Empleo (Conacee) v Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
      (Case C-598/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Public procurement - Directive 2014/24/EU - Article 20 - Reserved contracts - National legislation reserving the right to participate in certain public procurement procedures to Social initiative special employment centres - Additional conditions not provided for by the directive - Principles of equal treatment and proportionality)
      (2021/C 481/16)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Confederación Nacional de Centros Especiales de Empleo (Conacee)
      
         Defendant: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 20(1) 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 a Member State from imposing additional criteria beyond those laid down by that provision, thereby excluding from reserved public procurement procedures certain economic operators which satisfy the criteria laid down in that provision, provided that that Member State complies with the principles of equal treatment and proportionality.
      
         (1)  OJ C 363, 28.10.2019.