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(Case C-719/20) (*)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Public procurement - Waste management - In-house award - Directive 2014/24/EU - Articles 12 and 72 - Loss of ‘similar control’ conditions as a result of a business combination - Possibility for the successor operator to continue providing the service)
(2022/C 257/13)
Language of the case: Italian
Applicant: Comune di Lerici
Defendant: Provincia di La Spezia
Interveners: IREN SpA, ACAM Ambiente SpA
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 must be interpreted as precluding national rules or a national practice under which the performance of a public contract, initially awarded without any tendering procedure to an in-house entity over which the contracting authority exercised, jointly, a control similar to that which it exercises over its own departments, is automatically continued by the economic operator which acquired that entity, following a tendering procedure, where that contracting authority does not have such control over that operator and does not hold any shares in its capital.
(*) Language of the case: Italian.