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Document C2005/193/08

    Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 16 June 2005 in Joined Cases C-462/03 and C-463/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesvergabeamt Strabag AG, Kostmann GmbH v Österreichische Bundesbahnen (Public procurement contracts — Directive 93/38/EEC — Water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors — Concepts of ‘operation’ and ‘provision’ of networks providing a service to the public in the field of transport by railway — Railway infrastructure works)

    OJ C 193, 6.8.2005, p. 6–6 (ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    6.8.2005   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 193/6


    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

    (Second Chamber)

    of 16 June 2005

    in Joined Cases C-462/03 and C-463/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesvergabeamt Strabag AG, Kostmann GmbH v Österreichische Bundesbahnen (1)

    (Public procurement contracts - Directive 93/38/EEC - Water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors - Concepts of ‘operation’ and ‘provision’ of networks providing a service to the public in the field of transport by railway - Railway infrastructure works)

    (2005/C 193/08)

    Language of the case: German

    In Joined Cases C-462/03 and C-463/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Bundesvergabeamt (Austria), made by decision of 27 October 2003, received at the Court on 4 November 2003, in the proceedings pending before that court between Strabag AG (C-462/03), Kostmann GmbH (C-463/03) and Österreichische Bundesbahnen — the Court (Second Chamber) composed of C.W.A. Timmermans (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, R. Schintgen, G. Arestis and J. Klučka, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General, R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 16 June 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:

    Where a contracting entity exercising one of the activities particularly mentioned in Article 2(2) of Council Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors contemplates, in the exercise of that activity, the award of a supply, works or service contract or the organisation of a design contest, that contract or contest is governed by the provisions of this directive.


    (1)  OJ C 21 of 24.1.2004.


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