50As regards the first aspect of that question, it should be pointed out that Directive 89/665 does not preclude national legislation which provides that any application for review of a contracting authority's decision must be commenced within a time-limit laid down to that effect and that any irregularity in the award procedure relied upon in support of such application must be raised within the same period, if it is not to be out of time, with the result that, when that period has passed, it is no longer possible to challenge such a decision or to raise such an irregularity, provided that the time-limit in question is reasonable (Case C-470/99 Universale-Bau and Others [2002] ECR I-11617, paragraph 79, and Case C-327/00 Santex [2003] ECR I-1877, paragraph 50).
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