Judgment

Case C-336/12

Decision:

"On those grounds, the Court (Tenth Chamber) hereby rules:

The principle of equal treatment must be interpreted as not precluding a contracting authority from asking a candidate, after the deadline for applying to take part in a tendering procedure, to provide documents describing that candidate?s situation ? such as a copy of its published balance sheet ? which can be objectively shown to pre-date that deadline, so long as it was not expressly laid down in the contract documents that, unless such documents were provided, the application would be rejected. That request must not unduly favour or disadvantage the candidate or candidates to which it is addressed."