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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9542
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Contract for payment of Irish social welfare benefits does not infringe Community legislation on public procurement.

Luxembourg, 13/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 13 November, the Court of Justice rejected a case brought by the Commission against Ireland (case C-507/03). The Commission had said that Ireland had breached Community law by entrusting the payment of social welfare benefits to An Post, the Irish postal service, without undertaking any prior advertising. The Court stated that the Commission was unable to prove conclusively that another service provider had been deprived of the opportunity...

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