CELEX: 62021CN0214
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-214/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 6 April 2021 — Italy Emergenza Cooperativa Sociale v Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Cosenza

19.7.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 289/24
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 6 April 2021 — Italy Emergenza Cooperativa Sociale v Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Cosenza
      (Case C-214/21)
      (2021/C 289/34)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Consiglio di Stato
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant and appellant: Italy Emergenza Cooperativa Sociale
      
         Defendant and respondent: Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Cosenza
      
         Intervener: ANPAS — Associazione Nazionale Pubbliche Assistenze Odv
      
         Question referred
      
      Does Article 10(h) of Directive 2014/24/EU (1) — together with recital 28 of that directive — preclude national legislation which provides that contracts for the provision of emergency ambulance transport services may be directly awarded, on a preferential basis, solely to voluntary organisations — provided that they have been registered for at least six months in the national third sector register, belong to a network of associations and are accredited under the relevant sectoral regional legislation (if any) and on the condition that such an award ensures that the service can be provided within a framework of effective contributions to social goals, which pursues objectives of solidarity, in an economically efficient and appropriate manner and in accordance with the principles of transparency and non-discrimination — to the exclusion of other non-profit organisations, and more specifically social cooperatives, such as non-profit-making social enterprises, including social cooperatives which offer rebates to their members in relation to activities of general interest, within the meaning of Article 3(2a) of Legislative Decree No 112/2017?
      
         (1)  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 (OJ 2014 L 94, p. 65).