CELEX: 62018CA0515
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-515/18: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sardegna — Italy) — Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato v Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 — Public passenger transport services — Rail transport — Public service contracts — Direct award — Obligation to publish a prior information notice in relation to the direct award — Scope)

23.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 432/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sardegna — Italy) — Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato v Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
      (Case C-515/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 - Public passenger transport services - Rail transport - Public service contracts - Direct award - Obligation to publish a prior information notice in relation to the direct award - Scope)
      (2019/C 432/13)
      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
      
         Intervener: Trenitalia SpA
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 7(2) and (4) of 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 must be interpreted as meaning that competent national authorities which intend directly to award a public service contract for the transport of passengers by rail are not required, first, to publish or communicate to any interested economic operators all the information necessary in order to enable them to submit a sufficiently detailed offer which may be subject to a comparative assessment and, second, to carry out such a comparative assessment of all bids that may have been received following publication of that information.
      
         (1)  OJ C 436, 3.12.2018.