%A Ceruti, Marco %D 2020 %T Exclusion of Certain Legal Services from Directive 2014/24/EU: the Italian case %! Exclusion of Certain Legal Services from Directive 2014/24/EU: the Italian case %X <p>This article explores the exclusion of certain legal services from Directive 2014/24/EU, in relation to the Italian case, where the notion of ‘contract’ (‘<italic>appalto’</italic>) is opposed to the ‘intellectual/professional work contract’ (‘<italic>contratto d’opera</italic>’), although the concept of ‘contract’, not that of ‘<italic>appalto</italic>’, does appear in the European directives. So, with reference to the single legal assignment, a lot of attention must be paid to the terminology. In addition, on the assumption that a public <italic>utilitas</italic>, albeit modest, must be made contestable, more and more within a traditionally closed market of consolidated (hereditary, I would say) positions that in some ways reproduce a medieval feudal system, it is clear that, by way of a public evidence, some ‘grey areas’ of public administration, where the management of the <italic>res publica</italic> is intertwined with business and clientelism, generating corruption and malfeasance, in any case precluding impartiality, would be eliminated at the root. Keywords: public procurement, national legislation, exclusion of certain legal services, principles of equal treatment and subsidiarity</p> %U https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2020/2/6 %0 Journal Article %R 10.21552/epppl/2020/2/6 %J European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review %V 15 %N 2