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PRESS RELEASE No 186/22

Luxembourg, 17 November 2022

Judgment of the Court in Case C-54/21 | ANTEA POLSKA and Others

The protection of confidentiality in the field of public procurement must be weighed against the requirements of transparency and effective judicial protection EU law precludes national legislation which requires publicising of any information communicated by tenderers with the sole exception of trade secrets, since such legislation is likely to prevent the contracting authority from deciding not to disclose certain information which, while it does not constitute a trade secret, should remain inaccessible The Państwowe Gospodarstwo Wodne Wody Polskie (National Water Management Authority of Poland; ‘the contracting authority’) launched a tender procedure for the purpose of developing projects relating to the environmental management of certain river basin districts in Poland.

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