121Such full legal protection requires, next, that the unsuccessful tenderer should have the opportunity to examine in sufficient time the validity of the award decision, which means that there must be a reasonable period of time between communication of the award decision to the unsuccessful tenderers and the signature of the contract, in order inter alia to enable the latter to lodge an application for interim measures, under Articles 242 EC and 243 EC in conjunction with Article 225(1) EC, so that the judge hearing the application for interim measures may order suspension of the operation of the contested decision until the court adjudicating on the substance rules on the main action for annulment of that decision (see, to that effect and by analogy, the judgment of 24 June 2004 in Case C-212/02 Commission v Austria, not published in the ECR, paragraphs 21 and 23 and the case-law cited, and Commission v Ireland, paragraph 119 above, paragraphs 27 and 28 and the case-law cited). The right to full and effective judicial protection means that individuals must be granted interim protection if this is necessary to ensure the full effectiveness of the judgment to be given in the main proceedings, in order to prevent a lacuna in the legal protection afforded by the courts having jurisdiction (see orders of the President of the Court of Justice in Case C-399/95 R Germany v Commission [1996] ECR I-2441, paragraph 46 and the case-law cited, and Case C-445/00 R Austria v Council [2001] ECR I-1461, paragraph 111 and the case-law cited).
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