Judgment_paragraph 58 · Asmel societá consortile a r.l. v A.N.A.C. - Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione (C-3/19)

58Although under Article 11(2) of Directive 2004/18 contracting authorities that use a central purchasing body are themselves not subject, in the situations to which that article refers, to the public procurement procedures laid down by that directive, under the same article that central purchasing body is subject to the obligation on contracting authorities to comply with the procedures laid down by the directive. The main objective of the rules of EU law in the field of public contracts, namely freedom to provide services and the opening up of undistorted competition in all the Member States (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 December 2016, Undis Servizi, C‑553/15, EU:C:2016:935, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited), is thereby secured.