1. 

Action for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Natural or legal persons – Action capable of securing a benefit for the applicant – Meaning – Action against a decision annulling a call for tenders in the field of the organisation of communication activities on behalf of the Commission’s Representation in Greece – Action brought by a tenderer whose financial offer is higher than the maximum budget of the call for tenders – Precluded – Inadmissibility – Error committed by the contracting authority in calculating coefficients of the call for tenders – Irrelevant

(see paras 21, 22, 26, 29)

2. 

European Union public contracts – Tendering procedure – Obligation to comply with the principle of equal treatment of tenderers – Provision of services in the field of the organisation of communication activities on behalf of the Commission’s Representation in Greece – Error committed by the contracting authority in calculating coefficients of the call for tenders – Decision annulling the call for tenders – Action against that decision – Effects of annulment – Obligation of the contracting authority to have reference to the date of adoption of the annulled measure and to take into account the provisions in force on that date – Contracting authority bound by the tendering procedure affected by a calculation error – Rectification of calculation errors by the contracting authority in order to carry out a new assessment of bids submitted by tenderers – Not permissible

(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2018/1046, Arts 151, 160(1), 169(1) and (2), and 172)

(see paras 31-38)

3. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Interest in bringing proceedings – Action against a decision annulling a call for tenders in the field of the organisation of communication activities on behalf of the Commission’s Representation in Greece – Action brought by a tenderer whose financial offer is higher than the maximum budget of the call for tenders and was rejected on the grounds that it exceeded that budget – Inadmissibility

(European Parliament and Council Regulation 2018/1046, Arts 6, 33(1), 56 and 59)

(see paras 39-42)

4. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Interest in bringing proceedings – Action against a decision annulling a call for tenders in the field of the organisation of communication activities on behalf of the Commission’s Representation in Greece – Action brought by a tenderer whose financial offer is higher than the maximum budget of the call for tenders as freely defined by the contracting authority in the exercise of its discretion – Inadmissibility

(see paras 39, 43, 45-48)

1. 

The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. 

Militos Symvouleftiki AE shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.