35The Commission concludes that when it organised the call for tender at issue SIEPSA ought to have complied with the relevant provisions of the Directive for, according to the Court's case-law, the obligation placed on Member States by a directive to attain the result provided for by that act, and their duty under Article 10 EC, to take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure fulfilment of that obligation, are incumbent on all authorities of the Member States. Here the Commission refers in particular to Case C-353/96 Commission v Ireland [1998] ECR I-8565, paragraph 23, where it is held that the directives on the award of public contracts would be deprived of their effectiveness if the actions of a contracting authority were not imputable to the Member State concerned.
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