What changed, Council Directive of 21 December 1989 on the coordination of the laws, regulations and adm…

+ ### Article 1 — Scope and availability of review procedures
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+ 1. This Directive applies to contracts referred to in Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (8), unless such contracts are exc…
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+ Contracts within the meaning of this Directive include public contracts, framework agreements, public works concessions and dynamic purchasing systems.
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+ Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that, as regards contracts falling within the scope of Directive 2004/18/EC, decisions taken by the contracting authorities may be reviewed effectively and, in particular, as rapidly as possible in accordance with the conditions set out in Ar…
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+ 2. Member States shall ensure that there is no discrimination between undertakings claiming harm in the context of a procedure for the award of a contract as a result of the distinction made by this Directive between national rules implementing Community law and other national rules.
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+ 3. Member States shall ensure that the review procedures are available, under detailed rules which the Member States may establish, at least to any person having or having had an interest in obtaining a particular contract and who has been or risks being harmed by an alleged infringement.
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+ 4. Member States may require that the person wishing to use a review procedure has notified the contracting authority of the alleged infringement and of his intention to seek review, provided that this does not affect the standstill period in accordance with Article 2a(2) or any other time limits fo…
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+ 5. Member States may require that the person concerned first seek review with the contracting authority. In that case, Member States shall ensure that the submission of such an application for review results in immediate suspension of the possibility to conclude the contract.
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+ Member States shall decide on the appropriate means of communication, including fax or electronic means, to be used for the application for review provided for in the first subparagraph.
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+ The suspension referred to in the first subparagraph shall not end before the expiry of a period of at least 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date on which the contracting authority has sent a reply if fax or electronic means are used, or, if other means of communication are u…
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+ ### Article 2 — Requirements for review procedures
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+ 1. Member States shall ensure that the measures taken concerning the review procedures specified in Article 1 include provision for powers to:
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+ (a) take, at the earliest opportunity and by way of interlocutory procedures, interim measures with the aim of correcting the alleged infringement or preventing further damage to the interests concerned, including measures to suspend or to ensure the suspension of the procedure for the award of a pu…
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+ (b) either set aside or ensure the setting aside of decisions taken unlawfully, including the removal of discriminatory technical, economic or financial specifications in the invitation to tender, the contract documents or in any other document relating to the contract award procedure;
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+ (c) award damages to persons harmed by an infringement.
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+ 2. The powers specified in paragraph 1 and Articles 2d and 2e may be conferred on separate bodies responsible for different aspects of the review procedure.
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+ 3. When a body of first instance, which is independent of the contracting authority, reviews a contract award decision, Member States shall ensure that the contracting authority cannot conclude the contract before the review body has made a decision on the application either for interim measures or …
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+ 4. Except where provided for in paragraph 3 and Article 1(5), review procedures need not necessarily have an automatic suspensive effect on the contract award procedures to which they relate.
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+ 5. Member States may provide that the body responsible for review procedures may take into account the probable consequences of interim measures for all interests likely to be harmed, as well as the public interest, and may decide not to grant such measures when their negative consequences could exc…
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+ A decision not to grant interim measures shall not prejudice any other claim of the person seeking such measures.
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+ 6. Member States may provide that where damages are claimed on the grounds that a decision was taken unlawfully, the contested decision must first be set aside by a body having the necessary powers.
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+ 7. Except where provided for in Articles 2d to 2f, the effects of the exercise of the powers referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article on a contract concluded subsequent to its award shall be determined by national law.
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+ Furthermore, except where a decision must be set aside prior to the award of damages, a Member State may provide that, after the conclusion of a contract in accordance with Article 1(5), paragraph 3 of this Article or Articles 2a to 2f, the powers of the body responsible for review procedures shall …
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+ 8. Member States shall ensure that decisions taken by bodies responsible for review procedures can be effectively enforced.
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+ 9. Where bodies responsible for review procedures are not judicial in character, written reasons for their decisions shall always be given. Furthermore, in such a case, provision must be made to guarantee procedures whereby any allegedly illegal measure taken by the review body or any alleged defect…
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+ The members of such an independent body shall be appointed and leave office under the same conditions as members of the judiciary as regards the authority responsible for their appointment, their period of office, and their removal. At least the President of this independent body shall have the same…
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+ ### Article 2a — Standstill period
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+ 1. The Member States shall ensure that the persons referred to in Article 1(3) have sufficient time for effective review of the contract award decisions taken by contracting authorities, by adopting the necessary provisions respecting the minimum conditions set out in paragraph 2 of this Article and…
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+ 2. A contract may not be concluded following the decision to award a contract falling within the scope of Directive 2004/18/EC before the expiry of a period of at least 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date on which the contract award decision is sent to the tenderers and cand…
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+ Tenderers shall be deemed to be concerned if they have not yet been definitively excluded. An exclusion is definitive if it has been notified to the tenderers concerned and has either been considered lawful by an independent review body or can no longer be subject to a review procedure.
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+ Candidates shall be deemed to be concerned if the contracting authority has not made available information about the rejection of their application before the notification of the contract award decision to the tenderers concerned.
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+ The communication of the award decision to each tenderer and candidate concerned shall be accompanied by the following:
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+ — a summary of the relevant reasons as set out in Article 41(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC, subject to the provisions of Article 41(3) of that Directive, and,
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+ — a precise statement of the exact standstill period applicable pursuant to the provisions of national law transposing this paragraph.
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+ ### Article 2b — Derogations from the standstill period
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+ Member States may provide that the periods referred to in Article 2a(2) of this Directive do not apply in the following cases:
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+ (a) if Directive 2004/18/EC does not require prior publication of a contract notice in the *Official Journal of the European Union*;
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+ (b) if the only tenderer concerned within the meaning of Article 2a(2) of this Directive is the one who is awarded the contract and there are no candidates concerned;
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+ (c) in the case of a contract based on a framework agreement as provided for in Article 32 of Directive 2004/18/EC and in the case of a specific contract based on a dynamic purchasing system as provided for in Article 33 of that Directive.
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+ If this derogation is invoked, Member States shall ensure that the contract is ineffective in accordance with Articles 2d and 2f of this Directive where:
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+ — there is an infringement of the second indent of the second subparagraph of Article 32(4) or of Article 33(5) or (6) of Directive 2004/18/EC, and,
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+ — the contract value is estimated to be equal to or to exceed the thresholds set out in Article 7 of Directive 2004/18/EC.
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+ ### Article 2c — Time limits for applying for review
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+ Where a Member State provides that any application for review of a contracting authority's decision taken in the context of, or in relation to, a contract award procedure falling within the scope of Directive 2004/18/EC must be made before the expiry of a specified period, this period shall be at le…
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+ ### Article 2d — Ineffectiveness
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+ 1. Member States shall ensure that a contract is considered ineffective by a review body independent of the contracting authority or that its ineffectiveness is the result of a decision of such a review body in any of the following cases:
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+ (a) if the contracting authority has awarded a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the *Official Journal of the European Union* without this being permissible in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC;
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+ (b) in case of an infringement of Article 1(5), Article 2(3) or Article 2a(2) of this Directive, if this infringement has deprived the tenderer applying for review of the possibility to pursue pre-contractual remedies where such an infringement is combined with an infringement of Directive 2004/18/E…
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+ (c) in the cases referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 2b(c) of this Directive, if Member States have invoked the derogation from the standstill period for contracts based on a framework agreement and a dynamic purchasing system.
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+ 2. The consequences of a contract being considered ineffective shall be provided for by national law.
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+ National law may provide for the retroactive cancellation of all contractual obligations or limit the scope of the cancellation to those obligations which still have to be performed. In the latter case, Member States shall provide for the application of other penalties within the meaning of Article …
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+ 3. Member States may provide that the review body independent of the contracting authority may not consider a contract ineffective, even though it has been awarded illegally on the grounds mentioned in paragraph 1, if the review body finds, after having examined all relevant aspects, that overriding…
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+ Economic interests in the effectiveness of the contract may only be considered as overriding reasons if in exceptional circumstances ineffectiveness would lead to disproportionate consequences.
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+ However, economic interests directly linked to the contract concerned shall not constitute overriding reasons relating to a general interest. Economic interests directly linked to the contract include, inter alia, the costs resulting from the delay in the execution of the contract, the costs resulti…
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+ 4. The Member States shall provide that paragraph 1(a) of this Article does not apply where:
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+ — the contracting authority considers that the award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the *Official Journal of the European Union* is permissible in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC,
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+ — the contracting authority has published in the *Official Journal of the European Union* a notice as described in Article 3a of this Directive expressing its intention to conclude the contract, and,
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+ — the contract has not been concluded before the expiry of a period of at least 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date of the publication of this notice.
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+ 5. The Member States shall provide that paragraph 1(c) of this Article does not apply where:
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+ — the contracting authority considers that the award of a contract is in accordance with the second indent of the second subparagraph of Article 32(4) or with Article 33(5) and (6) of Directive 2004/18/EC,
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+ — the contracting authority has sent a contract award decision, together with a summary of reasons as referred to in the first indent of the fourth subparagraph of Article 2a(2) of this Directive, to the tenderers concerned, and,
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+ — the contract has not been concluded before the expiry of a period of at least 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date on which the contract award decision is sent to the tenderers concerned if fax or electronic means are used or, if other means of communications are used, befo…
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+ ### Article 2e — Infringements of this Directive and alternative penalties
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+ 1. In the case of an infringement of Article 1(5), Article 2(3) or Article 2a(2) which is not covered by Article 2d(1)(b), Member States shall provide for ineffectiveness in accordance with Article 2d(1) to (3), or for alternative penalties. Member States may provide that the review body independent…
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+ 2. Alternative penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Alternative penalties shall be:
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+ — the imposition of fines on the contracting authority; or,
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+ — the shortening of the duration of the contract.
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+ Member States may confer on the review body broad discretion to take into account all the relevant factors, including the seriousness of the infringement, the behaviour of the contracting authority and, in the cases referred to in Article 2d(2), the extent to which the contract remains in force.
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+ The award of damages does not constitute an appropriate penalty for the purposes of this paragraph.
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+ ### Article 2f — Time limits
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+ 1. Member States may provide that the application for review in accordance with Article 2d(1) must be made:
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+ (a) before the expiry of at least 30 calendar days with effect from the day following the date on which:
− ### Член 1
+ — the contracting authority published a contract award notice in accordance with Articles 35(4), 36 and 37 of Directive 2004/18/EC, provided that this notice includes justification of the decision of the contracting authority to award the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in th…
− 1. Държавите-членки предприемат необходимите мерки, за да гарантират, че по отношение на процедурите за възлагане на обществени поръчки, попадащи в приложното поле на Директиви 71/305/ЕИО, 77/62/ЕИО и 92/50/ЕИО (8), решенията, взети от възложителите, могат да бъдат ефективно обжалвани, и по-специалн…
+ — the contracting authority informed the tenderers and candidates concerned of the conclusion of the contract, provided that this information contains a summary of the relevant reasons as set out in Article 41(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC, subject to the provisions of Article 41(3) of that Directive. …
− 2. Държавите-членки гарантират, че не съществува дискриминация между предприятията, които биха могли да претендират за нанесена им щета в контекста на процедура за предоставяне на поръчка, в резултат от разграничаването, което настоящата директива прави между националните норми, транспониращи правот…
+ (b) and in any case before the expiry of a period of at least six months with effect from the day following the date of the conclusion of the contract.
− 3. Държавите-членки гарантират, че производствата по обжалване са достъпни, съгласно подробни правила, които държавите-членки могат да установят, поне за всяко лице, което има или което е имало интерес от спечелването на процедурата за възлагане на поръчка за доставки или за строителство, и което е …
+ 2. In all other cases, including applications for a review in accordance with Article 2e(1), the time limits for the application for a review shall be determined by national law, subject to the provisions of Article 2c.
− ### Член 2
+ ### Article 3 — Corrective mechanism
− 1. Държавите-членки гарантират, че мерките, приети относно производствата по обжалване, уточнени в член 1, включват правомощия, които да позволяват:
+ 1. The Commission may invoke the procedure provided for in paragraphs 2 to 5 when, prior to a contract being concluded, it considers that a serious infringement of Community law in the field of public procurement has been committed during a contract award procedure falling within the scope of Direct…
− а) да се приемат, в най-кратки срокове и посредством временни процедури, временни мерки с цел да се поправи твърдяно нарушение или да се предотврати нанасянето на допълнителни щети на засегнатите интереси, включително мерки за прекратяване или за гарантиране прекратяването на процедурата за възлаган…
+ 2. The Commission shall notify the Member State concerned of the reasons which have led it to conclude that a serious infringement has been committed and request its correction by appropriate means.
− б) да се отменят или да се гарантира отмяната на решения, взети неправомерно, включително премахването на дискриминационните технически, икономически или финансови спецификации в поканата за участие в търг, в документите за възлагането на поръчката или във всеки друг документ, свързан с процедурата …
+ 3. Within 21 calendar days of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 2, the Member State concerned shall communicate to the Commission:
− в) да се обезщетят лицата, ощетени от дадено нарушение.
+ (a) its confirmation that the infringement has been corrected;
− 2. Правомощията, предвидени в параграф 1, могат да бъдат предоставени на отделни органи, отговорни за различни аспекти на производството по обжалване.
+ (b) a reasoned submission as to why no correction has been made; or
− 3. Производствата по обжалване не е необходимо сами по себе си да имат автоматично действие по спиране на процедурата за възлагане на поръчки, за която се отнасят.
+ (c) a notice to the effect that the contract award procedure has been suspended either by the contracting authority on its own initiative or on the basis of the powers specified in Article 2(1)(a).
− 4. Държавите-членки могат да предвидят, че когато решават дали да разрешат временни мерки, отговорният орган може да вземе предвид вероятните последици от мерките за всички интереси, които биха могли да бъдат засегнати, както и обществения интерес, и може да реши да не допусне такива мерки, когато т…
+ 4. A reasoned submission communicated pursuant to paragraph 3(b) may rely among other matters on the fact that the alleged infringement is already the subject of judicial or other review proceedings or of a review as referred to in Article 2(9). In such a case, the Member State shall inform the Comm…
− 5. Държавите-членки могат да предвидят, когато са поискани обезщетения с мотива, че дадено решение е взето неправомерно, оспорваното решение да трябва първо да бъде отменено от орган, притежаващ необходимите правомощия.
+ 5. Where notice has been given that a contract award procedure has been suspended in accordance with paragraph 3(c), the Member State shall notify the Commission when the suspension is lifted or another contract procedure relating in whole or in part to the same subject matter is begun. That notific…
− 6. Последиците от упражняването на правомощията, посочени в параграф 1, върху договор, сключен след възлагането на поръчка, се определят от националното право.
+ ### Article 3a — Content of a notice for voluntary ex ante transparency
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+ The notice referred to in the second indent of Article 2d(4), the format of which shall be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 3b(2), shall contain the following information:
− Освен това, с изключение когато дадено решение трябва да бъде отменено преди отпускането на обезщетения, дадена държава-членка може да предвиди, че след сключването на договора, който следва възлагането на поръчка, правомощията на органа, отговорен за производствата по обжалване, следва да бъдат огр…
+ (a) the name and contact details of the contracting authority;
− 7. Държавите-членки гарантират, че решенията, взети от органи, отговорни за производствата по обжалване, могат да бъдат ефективно изпълнени.
+ (b) a description of the object of the contract;
− 8. Когато органите, отговорни за производствата по обжалване, нямат юридически характер, писмени основания за техните решения следва винаги да бъдат давани. Освен това в такъв случай трябва да бъдат приети разпоредби, които да гарантират процедурите, чрез които всяка предполагаема неправомерна мярка…
+ (c) a justification of the decision of the contracting authority to award the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the *Official Journal of the European Union*;
− Назначаването на членовете на такъв независим орган и прекратяването на техния мандат следва да бъдат извършвани съгласно същите условия, както за членовете на съдебната власт, що се отнася до властта, отговорна за тяхното назначаване, продължителността на мандата им и възможността за тяхното уволне…
+ (d) the name and contact details of the economic operator in favour of whom a contract award decision has been taken; and
− ### Член 3
+ (e) where appropriate, any other information deemed useful by the contracting authority.
− 1. Комисията може да се позове на процедурата, предвидена в настоящия член, когато преди сключване на договор тя счете, че ясно и явно нарушение на разпоредбите на Общността в областта на обществените поръчки е било извършено по време на процедура за възлагане на поръчка, попадаща в приложното поле …
+ ### Article 3b — Committee procedure
− 2. Комисията уведомява държавата-членка и съответния възложител за причините, поради които тя счита, че ясно и явно нарушение е било извършено и изисква неговото поправяне.
+ 1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Advisory Committee for Public Contracts set up by Article 1 of Council Decision 71/306/EEC of 26 July 1971 (9) (hereinafter referred to as the Committee).
− 3. В рамките на двадесет и един дена от получаване на уведомлението, посочено в параграф 2, съответната държава-членка съобщава на Комисията:
+ 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 3 and 7 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (10) shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
− а) потвърждението си, че нарушението е било поправено; или
+ ### Article 4 — Implementation
− б) мотивирано заключение, обясняващо защо не е било извършено поправяне; или
+ 1. The Commission may request the Member States, in consultation with the Committee, to provide it with information on the operation of national review procedures.
− в) уведомление, посочващо, че процедурата за възлагане на поръчка е била прекратена било от възложителя, по негова собствена инициатива, или на базата на правомощията, уточнени в член 2, параграф 1, буква а).
+ 2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission on an annual basis the text of all decisions, together with the reasons therefor, taken by their review bodies in accordance with Article 2d(3).
− 4. Мотивирано заключение в съответствие с параграф 3, буква б) може да се основава, наред с другите въпроси, на факта, че твърдяното нарушение вече е предмет на съдебни или други производства по обжалване, или на обжалване, както е упоменато в член 2, параграф 8. В такъв случай държавата-членка инфо…
+ ### Article 4a — Review
− 5. Когато е било отправено уведомление, че дадена процедура за възлагане на поръчка е била спряна в съответствие с параграф 3, буква в), държавата-членка уведомява Комисията, когато спирането е преустановено или друга процедура за възлагане на поръчка, свързана изцяло или отчасти с предишната, е бил…
+ No later than 20 December 2012, the Commission shall review the implementation of this Directive and report to the European Parliament and to the Council on its effectiveness, and in particular on the effectiveness of the alternative penalties and time limits.
− ### Член 4
+ ### Article 5
− 1. Не по-късно от четири години след прилагането на настоящата директива Комисията, след консултации с Консултативния комитет за обществени поръчки, преразглежда начина, по който разпоредбите от настоящата директива са били прилагани и ако е необходимо, предлага изменения.
+ Member States shall bring into force, before 1 December 1991, the measures necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the main national laws, regulations and administrative provisions which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.
− 2. Преди 1 март всяка година държавите-членки съобщават на Комисията информация относно функционирането на националните производства по обжалване през предходната календарна година. Естеството на информацията се определя от Комисията, след консултации с Консултативния комитет за обществени поръчки.
+ ### Article 6
− ### Член 5
+ This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
− Държавите-членки въвеждат в сила, преди 1 декември 1991 г., необходимите мерки, за да се съобразят с настоящата директива. Те уведомяват Комисията за текста на основните законови, подзаконови и административни разпоредби от националното им законодателство, които приемат в областта, регулирана от нас…
+ (1) OJ No C 230, 28.8.1987, p. 6 and OJ No C 15, 19.1.1989, p. 8.
− ### Член 6
+ (2) OJ No C 167, 27.6.1988, p. 77 and OJ No C 323, 27.12.1989.
− Адресати на настоящата директива са държавите-членки.
+ (3) OJ No C 347, 22.12.1987, p. 23.
− (1) ОВ С 230, 28.8.1987 г., стр. 6 и ОВ С 15, 19.1.1989 г., стр. 8.
+ (4) OJ No L 185, 16.8.1971, p. 5.
− (2) ОВ С 167, 27.6.1988 г., стр.77 и ОВ С 323, 27.12.1989 г.
+ (5) OJ No L 210, 21.7.1989, p. 1.
− (3) ОВ С 347, 22.12.1987 г., стр. 23.
+ (6) OJ No L 13, 15.1.1977, p. 1.
− (4) ОВ L 185, 16.8.1971 г., стр. 5.
+ (7) OJ No L 127, 20.5.1988, p. 1.
− (5) ОВ L 210, 21.7.1989 г., стр. 1.
+ (8) OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 114. Directive as last amended by Council Directive 2006/97/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 107).
− (6) ОВ L 13, 15.1.1977 г., стр. 1.
+ (9) OJ L 185, 16.8.1971, p. 15. Decision as amended by Decision 77/63/EEC (OJ L 13, 15.1.1977, p. 15).
− (7) ОВ L 127, 20.5.1988 г., стр. 1.
+ (10) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).
− (8) ОВ L 209, 24.7.1992, стр. 1.