Economic operators from a third country that is not a party to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) cannot rely on the equal treatment provided for in the European directives governing the award of public contracts, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment handed down on Tuesday 22 October (case C-652/22).
In Croatia, a Turkish company challenged the legality of awarding to another bidder a public contract for the construction of railway...