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EU public contracts: EU General Court Judgment in Case T-776/22 TP v Commission

18 December

Wednesday 18th December 2024

General Court Judgment in Case T-776/22 TP v Commission

(European Union public contracts)

In 2009, the European Commission launched a procedure for awarding public works contracts for modernising a structure. It awarded the contract to two companies, including TP, which had previously entered into a consortium contract with each other. On completion of the works, after noting certain malfunctions in the structure, the Commission sent them notice of early termination of the contract and initiated arbitration proceedings under the aegis of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

The Arbitral Tribunal ruled that the two companies were jointly and severally liable to pay the European Union an amount corresponding to the costs necessary to repair the work. It also qualified the consortium’s conduct as gross negligence.

In October 2022, the Commission adopted a decision under which TP was excluded, for a period of two years, from participation in award procedures governed by the 2018 Financial Regulation or financed by the European Development Fund (EDF) and from any selection for implementation of EU funds.

The Commission based its decision on the 2018 Financial Regulation, which sets out the conditions for exclusion. The authorising officer responsible may exclude a person or entity in particular where that person or entity has seriously failed to fulfil essential obligations in the performance of a legal commitment financed by the EU budget, which has led to the early termination of that commitment.

TP brought an action before the General Court of the European Union for annulment of this decision.

Background Documents T-776/22

 


Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2024

Urteil des Gerichts in der Rechtssache T‑776/22 TP / Kommission

Ausschluss von EU-Vergabeverfahren wegen mangelhafter Ausführung eines früheren Auftrags

Die Kommission schloss ein Unternehmen für zwei Jahre von Gewährungsverfahren (dazu gehören u.a. Vergabeverfahren) aus, die der Haushaltsordnung 2018 unterliegen oder durch den 11. Europäischen Entwicklungsfond finanziert werden, sowie von der Teilnahme an Verfahren zur Gewährung von EU-Mitteln.

Sie begründete diesen Ausschluss damit, dass das Unternehmen als Teil eines Konsortiums einen früheren Werkauftrag der Kommission mangelhaft ausgeführt habe. Zuvor hatte das von der Kommission angerufene Schiedsgericht der Internationalen Handelskammer (ICC) festgestellt, dass das Konsortium grob fahrlässig gehandelt habe und das in Rede stehende Unternehmen, ebenso wie sein Konsortiumspartner, der Kommission die Kosten für die erforderlichen Reparaturen zu erstatten habe.

Das Unternehmen hat die Kommissionsentscheidung vor dem Gericht der EU angefochten, das heute sein Urteil verkündet.

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