Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2009] All ER (D) 226 (Jan)
Court: Court of Justice of the European Communities (Grand Chamber)
Judge:

Judges Skouris (President), Jann, Timmermans, Rosas and Lenaerts (Rapporteur), (Presidents of Chambers), Tizzano, Rodrigues, Silva de Lapuerta, Schiemann, Klucka, Arabadjiev, Toader and Kasel
Judgment Dates: 16 December 2008

Catchwords

European community - Public procurement - Public works contracts - Exclusion rules in national law - Whether grounds for participation in a public works contracts exhausted - Council Directive (EEC) 93/37.

The Case

European community Public procurement. The Court of Justice of the European Communities ruled that the grounds laid down in art24(1) of Council Directive (EEC) 93-37 (concerning the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts) as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive (EC) 97-52 for excluding participation in a public works contract should be interpreted as listing exhaustively the grounds based on objective considerations of professional quality which were capable of justifying the exclusion of a contractor from participation in a public works contract.

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