Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-796/18Informatikgesellschaft für Software-Entwicklung (ISE) mbH v Stadt Köln
- Decided
- 2020-05-28
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2020:395
- CELEX
- 62018CJ0796
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public procurement – Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 2(1)(5) – Article 12(4) – Article 18(1) – Concept of ‘contract for pecuniary interest’ – Contract between two contracting authorities pursuing a common objective in the public interest – Transfer of software for the coordination of fire service operations – No financial consideration – Link with a cooperation agreement under which supplementary modules of that software are made mutually available free of charge – Principle of equal treatment – Prohibition on placing a private undertaking in a position of advantage vis-à-vis its competitors.
Interprets
Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.
The row repeats what the source states. It is not a summary, not a conclusion about any single case and not legal advice.
Verifiable trust signals
- Six fixed blocks, one source per line
- No sentence written by a language model
- Engine version and read date on every answer
- No customer data, no documents, no advice
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