51In accordance with the Court’s case-law, the setting of reasonable limitation periods for bringing proceedings must be regarded as satisfying, in principle, the requirement of effectiveness under Directive 89/665, since it is an application of the fundamental principle of legal certainty. The full implementation of the objective sought by Directive 89/665 would be undermined if candidates and tenderers were allowed to invoke, at any stage of the award procedure, infringements of the rules of public procurement, thus obliging the contracting authority to restart the entire procedure in order to correct such infringements (judgments in Universale-Bau and Others, C‑470/99, EU:C:2002:746, paragraphs 75 and 76 and the case-law cited; Lämmerzahl, C‑241/06, EU:C:2007:597, paragraphs 50 and 51; and Commission v Ireland, C‑456/08, EU:C:2010:46, paragraphs 51 and 52).
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