CELEX: C2006/143/21
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-410/04: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of  6 April 2006  (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Puglia) — Associazione Nazionale Autotrasporto Viaggiatori (ANAV) v Commune di Bari, A.M.T.A.B. Servizio SpA (Freedom to provide services — Local public transport service — Award with no call for tenders — Award by a public authority to an undertaking of which it owns the share capital)

17.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 6 April 2006 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Puglia) — Associazione Nazionale Autotrasporto Viaggiatori (ANAV) v Commune di Bari, A.M.T.A.B. Servizio SpA
   (Case C-410/04) (1)
   
   (Freedom to provide services - Local public transport service - Award with no call for tenders - Award by a public authority to an undertaking of which it owns the share capital)
   (2006/C 143/21)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Referring court
   Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Puglia
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Associazione Nazionale Autotrasporto Viaggiatori (ANAV)
   
      Defendant: Commune di Bari, A.M.T.A.B. Servizio SpA
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Puglia — Compatibility with Articles 46, 49 and 86 EC of national legislation permitting a municipality to award the management of a local public transport service to a company the share capital of which is wholly public — Award not made following the procedures laid down by Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ 1992 L 209, p. 1)
   Operative part of the judgment
   Articles 43 EC, 49 EC and 86 EC, and the principles of equal treatment, non-discrimination on grounds of nationality and transparency do not preclude national legislation which allows a public authority to award a contract for the provision of a public service directly to a company of which it wholly owns the share capital, provided that the public authority exercises over that company control comparable to that exercised over its own departments and that that company carries out the essential part of its activities with the controlling authority.
   
      (1)  OJ C 300, 4.12.2004.