CELEX: 62011CB0502
Language: en
Date: 2012-10-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-502/11: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 October 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy)) — Vivaio dei Molini Azienda Agricola Porro Savoldi ss v Autorità per la Vigilanza sui Contratti Pullici di lavori, servizi e forniture (Public works contracts — Directive 93/37/EEC — Article 6 — Principles of equal treatment and openness — Admissibility of rules reserving the right to participate in public tendering procedures to companies engaged in a commercial activity and excluding civil partnerships (società semplici) — Institutional and statutory objectives — Agricultural undertakings)

12.1.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/22
            
         Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 October 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy)) — Vivaio dei Molini Azienda Agricola Porro Savoldi ss v Autorità per la Vigilanza sui Contratti Pullici di lavori, servizi e forniture
   (Case C-502/11) (1)
   
   (Public works contracts - Directive 93/37/EEC - Article 6 - Principles of equal treatment and openness - Admissibility of rules reserving the right to participate in public tendering procedures to companies engaged in a commercial activity and excluding civil partnerships (società semplici) - Institutional and statutory objectives - Agricultural undertakings)
   2013/C 9/36
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Referring court
   
   Consiglio di Stato
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Vivaio dei Molini Azienda Agricola Porro Savoldi ss
   
      Defendant: Autorita per la Vigilanza sui Contratti Pullici di lavori, servizi e forniture
   
      in the presence of: SOA CQOP Costruttori Qualificati Opere Pubbliche SpA, Unione Provinciale Agricoltori di Brescia
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consiglio di Stato — Interpretation of Article 6 of Council Directive 93/37/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts (OJ 1993 L 199, p. 54) — Principle of non-discrimination — National legislation reserving the right to participate in public tendering procedures to companies engaged in a commercial activity and excluding agricultural undertakings in the form of civil partnerships (società semplici)
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   European Union law, in particular Article 6 of Council Directive 93/37/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, as amended by Commission Directive 2001/78/EC of 13 September 2001, precludes national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which prohibits an undertaking such as a civil partnership having the status of ‘contractor’ within the meaning of Directive 93/37 from participating in public procurement procedures solely on the ground of its legal form.
   
      (1)  OJ C 347, 26.11.2011.