Press Release: Public procurement: Commission closes infringement proceedings against France concerning Law on public project contracting and its relationship to private project management (

The European Commission decided to halt infringement proceedings against France arising out of a judgment of 20 October 2005 in which the Court of Justice held that, by reserving the task of delegated project contracting to a named list of legal entities under French law, France had failed to fulfil its obligations under Directive 92/50/EEC on public service contracts and under Article 49 of the EC Treaty.