Judgment_paragraph 61 · Zamestnik-ministar na regionalnoto razvitie i blagoustroystvoto i rakovoditel na Upravlyavashtia organ na Operativna programa 'Regioni v rastezh' 2014-2020 and Zamestnik-ministar na regionalnoto razvitie i blаgoustroystvoto i rakovoditel na Natsionalnia organ po Programa INTERREG V-A Rumania-Bulgaria 2014-2020 v Obshtina Razgrad and Obshtina Balchik (C-441/22)

61In particular, by regulating the conditions under which public contracts may be modified during their term, Article 72 of Directive 2014/24 aims to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency of procedures and of equal treatment of tenderers. Those principles preclude, following the award of a public contract, the contracting authority and the successful tenderer from amending the provisions of that contract in such a way that those provisions differ materially in character from those of the initial contract (see, to that effect, judgments of 13 April 2010, Wall, C‑91/08, EU:C:2010:182, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited, and of 3 February 2022, Advania Sverige and Kammarkollegiet, C‑461/20, EU:C:2022:72, paragraph 19 and the case-law cited). Compliance with those principles is, in turn, part of the more general objective of the EU rules in the field of public procurement, which is to ensure the free movement of services and an opening-up to undistorted competition in all the Member States (see, to that effect, judgments of 19 June 2008, pressetext Nachrichtenagentur, C‑454/06, EU:C:2008:351, paragraphs 31 and 32 and the case-law cited; of 13 April 2010, Wall, C‑91/08, EU:C:2010:182, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited; and of 12 May 2022, Comune di Lerici, C‑719/20, EU:C:2022:372, paragraph 42 and the case-law cited).

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