Provision of Legal Support and Representation for Litigation before Union and National Judicatures

Item Description:

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (referred to below as the contracting authority) is planning to award the contract(s) resulting from this procurement procedure. The procurement documents consist of the contract notice, the invitation letter, the draft contract(s) and tender specifications with their respective annexes.

The tender is divided into four lots in order to group the services requested into coherent batches corresponding to given legal fields:

Lot 1: Italian Law

Legal support and representation before all Italian jurisdictions with respect to cases brought in the context of EFSA’s activities. This may include inter alia local labour law, contract law, real estate, administrative and tax law.

Lot 2: EU Food Law

Legal support and representation before the competent jurisdictions with respect to cases brought in the context of EFSA’s activities pertaining to its core business, as defined in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and relevant EU legal acts.

Lot 3: EU Staff Regulation

Legal support and representation before the competent jurisdictions with respect to cases brought in the context of the implementation of the EU Staff Regulation.

Lot 4: EU Institutional law

Legal support and representation before the competent jurisdictions with respect to cases brought in the context of the implementation of EU institutional law, including the Regulation on public access to documents , EU Financial Regulation, EFSA’s internal rules or any other applicable provision or legal instrument.

This invitation to tender is in no way binding on the contracting authority. The contracting authority’s contractual obligation commences only when the contract with the successful tenderer is signed by both parties. Up to the signature of the contract the contracting authority may cancel the procurement procedure without tenderers being entitled to claim any compensation. Any such decision must be substantiated and tenderers notified.

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