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17EUIPO escapes liability in public procurement case as ECJ partially sets aside
\nGeneral Court judgment<\/h1>\n

Richard Milchior, partner and IP lawyer<\/a>, wrote and article for the\u00a0World Trademark Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in European Union Intellectual Property Office v European Dynamics Luxembourg SA<\/strong> (Case C-376\/16 P, May 3 2018) confirms that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) may incur non-contractual liability<\/strong> in cases involving calls for tenders<\/strong> in public procurement.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nIn August 2011, EUIPO notified its decision in a tendering procedure entitled “Software development and maintenance services”, rejecting the tender submitted by the company European Dynamics Luxembourg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In October 2011 European Dynamics Luxembourg, European Dynamics Belgium SA and jointly interested parties\u00a0brought an action for annulment of the decisions<\/strong> at issue before the General Court.<\/p>\n

In support of the action before the General Court, European Dynamics and others put forward three pleas in law, alleging:
\n1. infringement<\/strong> of the duty to state reasons<\/strong>;
\n2. several manifest errors<\/strong> of assessment; and
\n3. infringement<\/strong> of the principle of equal treatment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The General Court examined the third plea in law and upheld only the third part of it<\/strong>. It considered that the EUIPO<\/strong> had clearly breached its duty of diligence<\/strong> when investigating the 2817existence of the ground for exclusion.<\/p>\n

The General Court also upheld a part of the second plea in law.<\/strong>\u00a0It found that the existence of manifest errors<\/strong> of assessment or inadequate reasoning that vitiated the lawfulness of the evaluation of the tender<\/strong>.\u00a0Those illegalities, by themselves, justified the annulment of the decision<\/strong> rejecting the tender<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the General Court upheld the claim for damages<\/strong> brought by European Dynamics and others inasmuch as it concerned the compensation for loss of opportunity<\/p>\n

The EUIPO appealed<\/strong> this decision to the ECJ.<\/p>\n

About the ECJ’s decision<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The ECJ upheld the EUIPO’s claim<\/strong> and set aside this part of the judgment.\u00a0In the first part of the second ground of appeal, the EUIPO considered that the mere fact that it had allegedly made<\/strong> errors<\/strong> of assessment concerning several sub-criteria of technical award cannot in itself be considered as a sufficient reason to annul the decision rejecting the tender<\/strong>.\u00a0As the General Court did not examine whether those other comments were sufficient to justify the score given by the contracting authority for the award criterion concerned, it was a sufficient reason to appeal its judgment.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The ECJ considered that the General Court had not established the existence of such a causal link<\/strong> to the requisite legal standard. In particular, the General Court had failed to ascertain whether and to what extent, in the light of the facts of the case and if the EUIPO had made no errors<\/strong>, European Dynamics and others would have been awarded a better ranking<\/strong> in the cascade procedure.<\/p>\n

Read full article<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17EUIPO escapes liability in public procurement case as ECJ partially sets aside General Court judgment Richard Milchior, partner and IP lawyer, wrote and article for the\u00a0World Trademark Review. 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