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Exclusion of Certain Legal Services from Directive 2014/24/EU: the Italian case journal article

Marco Ceruti

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 15 (2020), Issue 2, Page 124 - 137

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’ (‘appalto’) is opposed to the ‘intellectual/professional work contract’ (‘contratto d’opera’), although the concept of ‘contract’, not that of ‘appalto’, 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 utilitas, 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 res publica 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


Subcontracting Limitation as Expressed by Italian Legislation of Public Contracts Does Not Comply with European Law journal article

Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Fifth Chamber) of 26 September 2019 in Case 63/18 Vitali SpA v Autostrade per l’Italia SpA

Michele Cozzio, Edoardo Tozzo

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 15 (2020), Issue 2, Page 174 - 178

The directions provided by the Court are clear in considering that the limit on subcontracting imposed by Italian legislation is precluded by Directive 2014/24/EU. The percentage limit fixed in general and abstract terms goes beyond what was necessary to achieve its objective specially in relation to combat organised crime and may make it more difficult for the SMEs to access public contracts.


Exclusion of Certain Legal Services from Directive 2014/24/EU journal article

Annotation on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Fifth Chamber) of 6 June 2019 in Case C-264/18 P. M. and Others v Ministerraad

Marco Ceruti

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 14 (2019), Issue 3, Page 197 - 202

This paper explores the exclusion of certain legal services from Directive 2014/24/EU, in relation to the judgment of the CJEU in the P.M. e a. Case, stating that legal services provided by a lawyer are to be conceived only in the context of a relationship intuitu personae between the lawyers and their client, characterised by the utmost confidentiality and by the free choice of representative, at the same time leaving for national legislatures to determine whether those services should be subject to public procurement rules. Keywords: Public procurement; National legislation; Exclusion of certain legal services; Principles of equal treatment and subsidiarity.


The Italian Mechanism of Paid Assistance in Compiling Procurement Documentation journal article

Annotation on the judgment of the Court of Justice (Eighth Chamber) of 28 February 2018 in joined Cases C‑523/16 and C‑536/16 MA.T.I. SUD SpA v Centostazioni SpA and Duemme SGR SpA v Associazione Cassa Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza in favore dei Ragionieri e Periti Commerciali (CNPR)

Marco Ceruti

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 3, Page 234 - 240

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