Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012.#Sviluppo Globale GEIE v European Commission.#Public service contracts — Call for tenders — Support for the customs and tax authorities in Kosovo — Rejection of a tenderer’s bid — Act not amenable to review — Confirmatory act — Inadmissibility — Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to the call for tenders — Partial refusal of access — Exception concerning the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Inadequate statement of reasons.#Case T‑6/10.

Subject of the case

Re:

APPLICATION, first, for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 10 November 2009 rejecting the tender submitted by the consortium of which the applicant is a member in call for tenders EuropAid/127843/D/SER/KOS for the provision of support services to the customs and tax authorities in Kosovo (OJ 2009/S 4‑003683) and, second, for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 26 November 2009 refusing the consortium access to certain documents relating to the call for tenders.

Operative part

Operative part

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action as inadmissible in so far as it is directed against the Commission’s decision of 10 November 2009 rejecting the tender submitted by the consortium of which the applicant is a member in call for tenders EuropAid/127843/D/SER/KOS for the provision of support services to the customs and tax authorities in Kosovo;

2. Annuls the Commission’s decision of 26 November 2009 concerning access to certain documents relating to that call for tenders, in so far as it refuses to grant access, in the disclosed version of the evaluation report, to the scores awarded by the evaluation committee as set out on pages 3 to 5 of that report;

3. Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

4. Dismisses the applicant’s application for the instigation of measures of inquiry;

5. Orders Sviluppo Globale GEIE to bear its own costs relating to the main proceedings and to pay three quarters of the costs incurred by the Commission in those proceedings. Orders the Commission to bear one quarter of its costs relating to the main proceedings;

6. Orders Sviluppo Globale to bear all the costs relating to the application for interim relief in Case T‑6/10 R.