Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts Basic information Dates Date of document: Date of publication: Date of effect: July 14, 1992 Entry into force - Date notif. Date of transposition: Date of end of validity: Modified by Modified by: Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded - Annex II: List referred to in Article 20 of the Act of Accession - 1. Free movement of goods - I. Public procurement
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detail European Parliament and Council Directive 97/52/EC of 13 October 1997 amending Directives 92/50/EEC, 93/36/EEC and 93/37/EEC concerning the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts, public supply contracts and public works contracts respectively
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detail Commission Directive 2001/78/EC of 13 September 2001 amending Annex IV to Council Directive 93/36/EEC, Annexes IV, V and VI to Council Directive 93/37/EEC, Annexes III and IV to Council Directive 92/50/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/52/EC, and Annexes XII to XV, XVII and XVIII to Council Directive 93/38/EEC, as amended by Directive 98/4/EC (Directive on the use of standard forms in the publication of public contract notices) (Text with EEA relevance)
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detail Council Directive 93/36/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating procedures for the award of public supply contracts
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detail ACT concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, ANNEX I - List referred to in Article 29 of the Act of Accession - XI. INTERNAL MARKET AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - E. PROCUREMENT
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detail All documents based on this document: Repealed by: Modifies Modifies: Affected by case Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 December 2011. Ministre de l’Intérieur, de l’Outre-mer, des Collectivités territoriales et de l’Immigration v Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de l'Indre. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Conseil d'État - France. Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of the European Union’s financial interests - Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 - Article 3 - Structural Funds - Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 - Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 - Contracting authority in receipt of a subsidy from the Structural Funds - Failure to comply with public procurement rules by the recipient of an ERDF subsidy - Basis for the obligation to recover European Union subsidies in the case of an irregularity - Concept of ‘irregularity’ - Concept of ‘continuous irregularity’ - Conditions for recovery - Limitation period - Longer national limitation periods - Principle of proportionality. Case C-465/10. Order of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 May 2002. Buchhändler-Vereinigung GmbH v Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG and Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf - Germany. Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service concession. Case C-358/00. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 June 2002. Hospital Ingenieure Krankenhaustechnik Planungs-Gesellschaft mbH (HI) v Stadt Wien. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Vergabekontrollsenat des Landes Wien - Austria. Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Procedure for the award of public service contracts - Directive 89/665/EEC - Scope - Decision to withdraw an invitation to tender - Judicial review - Scope. Case C-92/00. Case C-532/06: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 24 January 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Simvoulio tis Epikratias, Greece) — Emm. G. Lianakis AE, Sima Anonymi Techniki Etairia Meleton kai Epivlepseon, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos v Dimos Alexandroupolis, Planitiki AE, Aikaterini Georgoula, Dimitrios Vasios, N. Loukatos kai Synergates AE Meleton, Eratosthenis Meletitiki AE, A. Pantazis — Pan. Kyriopoulos kai syn/tes OS Filon OE, Nikolaos Sideris (Directive 92/50/EEC — Public service contracts — Carrying out of a project in respect of the cadastre, town plan and implementing measure for a residential area — Criteria which may be accepted as criteria for qualitative selection or award criteria — Economically most advantageous tender — Compliance with the award criteria set out in the contract documents or contract notice — Subsequent determination of weighting factors and sub-criteria in respect of the award criteria referred to in the contract documents or contract notice — Principle of equal treatment of economic operators and obligation of transparency) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 36.2 Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 October 2000. The Queen v H.M. Treasury, ex parte The University of Cambridge. Reference for a preliminary ruling: High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen's Bench Division (Divisional Court) - United Kingdom. Public contracts - Procedure for the award of public contracts for services, supplies and works - Contracting authority - Body governed by public law. Case C-380/98. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 19 June 2008. pressetext Nachrichtenagentur GmbH v Republik Österreich (Bund), APA-OTS Originaltext-Service GmbH and APA Austria Presse Agentur registrierte Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesvergabeamt - Austria. Public procurement - Directive 92/50/EEC - Procedures for the award of public service contracts - Concept of "award of a contract". Case C-454/06. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 22 May 2003. Arkkitehtuuritoimisto Riitta Korhonen Oy, Arkkitehtitoimisto Pentti Toivanen Oy and Rakennuttajatoimisto Vilho Tervomaa v Varkauden Taitotalo Oy. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Kilpailuneuvosto - Finland. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - Definition of contracting authority - Body governed by public law - Company set up by a regional or local authority to promote the development of industrial or commercial activities on the territory of that authority. Case C-18/01. Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 19 May 2009. Assitur Srl v Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Milano. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia - Italy. Directive 92/50/EEC - First paragraph of Article 29 - Public service contracts - National legislation not allowing companies linked by a relationship of control or significant influence to participate, as competing tenderers, in the same procedure for the award of a public contract. Case C-538/07. Case C-454/06: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 19 June 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesvergabeamt, Austria) — pressetext Nachrichtenagentur GmbH v Republik Österreich (Bund), APA-OTS Originaltext — Service GmbH, APA Austria Presse Agentur registrierte Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Public procurement — Directive 92/50/EEC — Procedures for the award of public service contracts — Concept of award of a contract ) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 3.1 {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 8 {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 9 Judgment of the Court of 17 September 2002. Concordia Bus Finland Oy Ab, formerly Stagecoach Finland Oy Ab v Helsingin kaupunki and HKL-Bussiliikenne. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Korkein hallinto-oikeus - Finland. Public service contracts in the transport sector - Directives 92/50/EEC and 93/38/EEC - Contracting municipality which organises bus transport services and an economically independent entity of which participates in the tender procedure as a tenderer - Taking into account of criteria relating to theprotection of the environment to determine the economically most advantageous tender - Whether permissible when the municipal entity which is tendering meets those criteria more easily. Case C-513/99. Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 6 May 2010. Club Hotel Loutraki AE and Others v Ethnico Symvoulio Radiotileorasis and Ypourgos Epikrateias (C-145/08) and Aktor Anonymi Techniki Etaireia (Aktor ATE) v Ethnico Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (C-149/08). References for a preliminary ruling: Symvoulio tis Epikrateias - Greece. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - Service concessions - Mixed contract - Contract including the transfer of a block of shares in a public casino business - Contract under which the contracting authority entrusts to the contracting undertaking the management of a casino business and the execution of a development plan consisting in upgrading the casino premises and improving the surrounding area - Directive 89/665/EEC - Decision of the contracting authority - Effective and rapid remedies - National procedural law - Criteria for the award of damages - Prior annulment of the unlawful act or omission or a finding of its nullity by the competent court - Members of a consortium in a public procurement procedure - Decision adopted in the context of that procedure by an authority other than the contracting authority - Action brought, individually, by some members of the consortium - Admissibility. Joined cases C-145/08 and C-149/08. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 19 April 2007. Asociación Nacional de Empresas Forestales (Asemfo) v Transformación Agraria SA (Tragsa) and Administración del Estado. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal Supremo - Spain. Reference for a preliminary ruling - Admissibility - Article 86(1) EC - No independent effect - Factors permitting material which enables the Court to give a useful answer to the questions referred - Directives 92/50/EEC, 93/36/EEC and 93/37/EEC - National legislation enabling a public undertaking to perform operations on the direct instructions of the public authorities without being subject to the general rules for the award of public procurement contracts - Internal management structure - Conditions - The public authority must exercise over a distinct entity a control similar to that which it exercises over its own departments - The distinct entity must carry out the essential part of its activities with the public authority or authorities which control it. Case C-295/05. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 October 2005. Parking Brixen GmbH v Gemeinde Brixen and Stadtwerke Brixen AG. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Verwaltungsgericht, Autonome Sektion für die Provinz Bozen - Italy. Public procurement - Procedures for the award of public contracts -Service concession - Management of public pay car parks. Case C-458/03. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 September 1998. Walter Tögel v Niederösterreichische Gebietskrankenkasse. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesvergabeamt - Austria. Public service contracts - Direct effect of a directive not transposed into national law - Classification of services for the transport of patients. Case C-76/97. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 December 2000. Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Telekom Austria AG, joined party: Herold Business Data AG. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesvergabeamt - Austria. Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts in the telecommunications sector - Directive 93/38/EEC - Public service concession. Case C-324/98. Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 19 April 2018. Oftalma Hospital Srl v Commissione Istituti Ospitalieri Valdesi (CIOV) and Regione Piemonte. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public service contracts — Health and social services — Award contrary to the rules on public procurement — Requirement to comply with the principles of transparency and equal treatment — Concept of ‘certain cross-border interest’ — Directive 92/50/EEC — Article 27. Case C-65/17. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 24 November 2005. ATI EAC Srl e Viaggi di Maio Snc, EAC Srl and Viaggi di Maio Snc v ACTV Venezia SpA, Provincia di Venezia and Comune di Venezia. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Consiglio di Stato - Italy. Public service contracts - Directives 92/50/EEC and 93/38/EEC - Award criteria - The economically most advantageous tender - Observance of award criteria set out in the contract documents or the contract notice - Establishment of subheadings for one of the award criteria in the contract documents or the contract notice - Decision to apply weighting - Principles of equal treatment of tenderers and transparency. Case C-331/04. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 May 2001. Agorà Srl and Excelsior Snc di Pedrotti Bruna & C. v Ente Autonomo Fiera Internazionale di Milano and Ciftat Soc. coop. arl. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia - Italy. Public service contracts - Definition of contracting authorities - Body governed by public law. Joined cases C-223/99 and C-260/99. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 February 2006. La Cascina Soc. coop. arl and Zilch Srl v Ministero della Difesa and Others (C-226/04) and Consorzio G. f. M. v Ministero della Difesa and La Cascina Soc. coop. arl (C-228/04). Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale amministrativo regionale del Lazio - Italy. Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Article 29, first paragraph, subparagraphs (e) and (f) - Obligations of service providers - Payment of social security contributions and taxes. Joined cases C-226/04 and C-228/04. Case C-538/07: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 19 May 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia — Italy) — Assitur Srl v Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Milano (Directive 92/50/EEC — First paragraph of Article 29 — Public service contracts — National legislation not allowing companies linked by a relationship of control or significant influence to participate, as competing tenderers, in the same procedure for the award of a public contract) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 29 L1 Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2002. Felix Swoboda GmbH v Österreichische Nationalbank. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesvergabeamt - Austria. Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Scope ratione materiae - Moving offices of a central bank - Contract relating to both services listed in Annex I A to Directive 92/50 and services listed in Annex I B to that directive - Predominance in value terms of services listed in Annex I B. Case C-411/00. Case C-220/06: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 December 2007 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Nacional, Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo — Spain) — Asociación Profesional de Empresas de Reparto y Manipulado de Correspondencia v Administración General del Estado (Public procurement — Liberalisation of postal services — Directives 92/50/EEC and 97/67/EC — Articles 43 EC, 49 EC and 86 EC — National legislation allowing public authorities to conclude agreements for the provision of both reserved and non-reserved postal services with a publicly owned company, namely the provider of universal postal service in the Member State concerned, without regard to the rules governing the award of public service contracts) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 1 PT A) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 7.1 Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 March 1999. Hospital Ingenieure Krankenhaustechnik Planungs-Gesellschaft mbH (HI) v Landeskrankenanstalten-Betriebsgesellschaft. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat für Kärnten - Austria. Public service contracts - Effect of a directive not transposed into national law. Case C-258/97. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 December 2007. Asociación Profesional de Empresas de Reparto y Manipulado de Correspondencia v Administración General del Estado. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Audiencia Nacional - Spain. Public procurement - Liberalisation of postal services - Directives 92/50/EEC and 97/67/EC - Articles 43 EC, 49 EC and 86 EC - National legislation allowing public authorities to conclude agreements for the provision of both reserved and non-reserved postal services with a publicly owned company, namely the provider of universal postal service in the Member State concerned, without regard to the rules governing the award of public service contracts. Case C-220/06. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 December 2000. ARGE Gewässerschutz v Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesvergabeamt - Austria. Public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - Procedure for the award of public procurement contracts - Equal treatment of tenderers - Discrimination on grounds of nationality - Freedom to provide services. Case C-94/99. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 2 December 1999. Holst Italia SpA v Comune di Cagliari, intervener: Ruhrwasser AG International Water Management. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sardegna - Italy. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - Proof of standing of the service provider - Possibility of relying on the standing of another company. Case C-176/98. Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 3 March 2005. Fabricom SA v Belgian State. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Conseil d'État - Belgium. Public procurement - Works, supplies and services - Water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors - Prohibition on participation in a procedure of submission of a tender by a person who has contributed to the development of the works, supplies or services concerned. Joined cases C-21/03 and C-34/03. Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 December 2007. Frigerio Luigi & C. Snc v Comune di Triuggio. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia - Italy. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - National legislation restricting the award of local public services of economic interest to companies with share capital - Compatibility. Case C-357/06. Judgment of the Court of 17 September 1997. Dorsch Consult Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH v Bundesbaugesellschaft Berlin mbH. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Vergabeüberwachungsausschuß des Bundes - Germany. Meaning of 'national court or tribunal' for the purposes of Article 177 of the Treaty - Procedures for the award of public service contracts - Directive 92/50/EEC - National review body. Case C-54/96. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 24 January 2008. Emm. G. Lianakis AE, Sima Anonymi Techniki Etaireia Meleton kai Epivlepseon and Nikolaos Vlachopoulos v Dimos Alexandroupolis and Others. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Symvoulio tis Epikrateias - Greece. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - Carrying out of a project in respect of the cadastre, town plan and implementing measure for a residential area - Criteria which may be accepted as ‘criteria for qualitative selection’ or ‘award criteria’ - Economically most advantageous tender - Compliance with the award criteria set out in the contract documents or contract notice - Subsequent determination of weighting factors and sub-criteria in respect of the award criteria referred to in the contract documents or contract notice - Principle of equal treatment of economic operators and obligation of transparency. Case C-532/06. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber), 18 December 2014. Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Careggi-Firenze v Data Medical Service srl. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public service contracts — Directive 92/50/EEC — Articles 1(c) and 37 — Directive 2004/18/EC — First subparagraph of Article 1(8) and Article 55 — Concepts of ‘service provider’ and ‘economic operator’ — Public university hospital — Entity with legal personality and business and organisational autonomy — Principally non-profit-making activity — Institutional purpose of offering health services — Possibility of offering similar services on the market — Admission to participate in a tendering procedure for the award of a public contract. Case C‑568/13. Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 December 2007. Bayerischer Rundfunk and Others v GEWA - Gesellschaft für Gebäudereinigung und Wartung mbH. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf - Germany. Directives 92/50/EEC and 2004/18/EC - Public service contracts - Public broadcasting bodies - Contracting authorities - Bodies governed by public law - Condition that the activity of the institution be ‘financed, for the most part, by the State’. Case C-337/06. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 January 2005. Stadt Halle and RPL Recyclingpark Lochau GmbH v Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thermische Restabfall- und Energieverwertungsanlage TREA Leuna. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberlandesgericht Naumburg - Germany. Directive 92/50/EEC - Public service contracts - Award with no public call for tenders - Award of the contract to a semi-public undertaking - Judicial protection - Directive 89/665/EEC. Case C-26/03. Judgment of the Court of 10 November 1998. Gemeente Arnhem and Gemeente Rheden v BFI Holding BV. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Gerechtshof Arnhem - Netherlands. Public service contracts - Meaning of contracting authority - Body governed by public law. Case C-360/96. Case C-357/06: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 December 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia, Italy) — Frigerio Luigi & C. Snc v Comune di Triuggio (Directive 92/50/EEC — Public service contracts — National legislation restricting the award of local public services of economic interest to companies with share capital — Compatibility) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 26.2 {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 26.1 Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber), 10 July 2014. Impresa Pizzarotti & C. SpA v Comune di Bari and Others. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public works contracts — Directive 93/37/EEC — ‘Undertaking to let’ buildings which have not yet been constructed — Decision of a national court having the authority of res judicata — Scope of the principle of res judicata in the event of a situation which is incompatible with EU law. Case C‑213/13. Case C-337/06: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 December 2007 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf — Germany) — Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandradio, Hessischer Rundfunk, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Radio Bremen, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen v GEWA Gesellschaft für Gebäudereinigung und Wartung mbH (Directives 92/50/EEC and 2004/18/EC — Public service contracts — Public broadcasting bodies — Contracting authorities — Bodies governed by public law — Condition that the activity of the institution be financed, for the most part, by the State ) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 1 PT B) L2 {TIRE|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/TIRE} 3 {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 1 PT A) PT IV) Case C-323/07: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 April 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia (Italy)) — Termoraggi SpA v Comune di Monza (Public procurement — Public service and public supply contracts — Award without call for tenders — Award by a local authority to an undertaking whose capital it controls) {AR|http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/fd_370/AR} 6 Case C-298/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Arbeitsgericht Cottbus — Kammern Senftenberg (Germany) lodged on 2 May 2018 — Reiner Grafe and Jürgen Pohle v Südbrandenburger Nahverkehrs GmbH, OSL Bus GmbH Case C-65/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione (Italy) lodged on 6 February 2017 — Oftalma Hospital Srl v CIOV -Commissione Istituti Ospitalieri Valdesi, Regione Piemonte article 16 article 27 annex I B article 9 article 14 Legal basis TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, PART FIVE - INSTITUTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, TITLE I - PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE INSTITUTIONS, CHAPTER 1: THE INSTITUTIONS, SECTION 2: THE COUNCIL, ARTICLE 149 TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, PART TWO - FOUNDATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, TITLE III - FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS, SERVICES AND CAPITAL, CHAPTER 3: SERVICES, ARTICLE 66 TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, PART TWO - FOUNDATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, TITLE III - FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS, SERVICES AND CAPITAL, CHAPTER 2: RIGHT OF ESTABLISHMENT, ARTICLE 57 EuroVoc Vocabulary Works contract Freedom of establishment Provision of services Single market Award of contract Public services contracts Public contract