33In that regard, it must be borne in mind that Council Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ 1992 L 209, p. 1), which was applicable when the contract between the Municipality of Lerici and ACAM was entered into, did not require a contracting authority to initiate a tendering procedure for the award of a public contract where it exercised over the contractor similar control to that exercised over its own departments and where that distinct entity carried out the essential part of its activities with the contracting authority or authorities which owned it. In the case of an in-house award of that kind, the contracting authority is deemed to use its own resources since, even if the contractor is legally distinct from the contracting authority, it may, in practice, be treated in the same way as the internal departments of the contracting authority (see, to that effect, judgments of 11 January 2005, Stadt Halle and RPL Lochau, C‑26/03, EU:C:2005:5, paragraph 49, and of 18 June 2020, Porin kaupunki, C‑328/19, EU:C:2020:483, paragraph 66).
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