Brussels, 31/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission decided to continue the infringement procedures against five Member States for incomplete implementation of the Community legislation on public procurement. His concerns: - Spain: the Commission referred to the Court of Justice due to the incorrect implementation of the Community Directive concerning the provision of public supply and works contracts (by the public administration). It feels that certain Spanish provisions on the notions of body governed by public law contravene EU legislation; - Germany (motivated opinion): the Commission reproaches Munich, which won a public contract for the processing of waters in the Danube forest, for not having transported itself the waste and having made use of a private company for 25 years, without any prior calls for tenders; - France (motivated opinion): the continuation of the procedure is motivated by the irregularities in several calls for tenders by the Le Mans authorities for the attributing of certain services in the Chauviniere sewage plant. France is also under pressure over its management of contracts for public works and for the conditions for concluding "local development agreements". The Commission also sent it a motivated opinion calling up on it to conform with a Court ruling from May 1999, which demands that it fully apply the Directive on the appeals procedures open to suppliers, which feel unfairly excluded from the granting of a public market in the sectors of energy, water, transport and telecommunications; - Italy (motivated opinion): lack of transparency in the granting of a contract for the provision of operating tables to the Ivrea hospital and the building of a school in Genoa: - Austria (motivated opinion): the Commission calls on certain Lander (Salzburg, Steiermark, Karnten, Niederosterreich and Tyrol) to correctly implement the Directive on the rapid and effective methods of appeal for the suppliers to prevent violations of the European legislation on the granting of public markets, including the Court of Justice ruling in the "Alcatel" case.