CELEX: 62018CN0515
Language: en
Date: 2018-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-515/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sardegna (Italy) lodged on 6 August 2018 — Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato v Regione autonoma della Sardegna

3.12.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 436/17
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sardegna (Italy) lodged on 6 August 2018 — Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato v Regione autonoma della Sardegna
      (Case C-515/18)
      (2018/C 436/22)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sardegna
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
      
         Defendant: Regione autonoma della Sardegna
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Must Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 (1) of 23 October 2007 be interpreted as meaning that the competent authority which intends directly to award a contract must take the necessary steps to publish or communicate to all operators potentially interested in operating the service the information necessary to allow such operators to submit a serious and reasonable offer?
               
            
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                  Must Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of 23 October 2007 be interpreted as meaning that, before directly awarding the contract, the competent authority must carry out a comparative assessment of all bids to operate the service which may have been received following publication of the prior information notice under that Article 7(4)?
               
            
         (1)  Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and by road and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 1191/69 and 1107/70 (OJ 2007 L 315, p. 1).