CJEU: vertical effect of Directives goes both ways (C-425/12)* The Judgment of the CJEU of 12 December 2013 in case C-425/12 Portgás may appear to be of interest only for public procurement aficionados (and, even then, only for hardcore ones), as it deals with the potential applicability of the old 1993 utilities procurement Directive (no longer current) to a company entrusted with a gas distribution concession in Portugal. Hardly a topic bound to spur heated debates. Hence, it seems a case doomed to receive very little attention amongst EU lawyers... However, it contains one of the very few potential (r)evolutions in the theory of Directives' direct effect since Mangold and Kücükdeveci by holding that their vertical direct effect goes both ways (i.e. both up and down). In my view,
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The EU Court of Justice rules that the authorities of a Member State may rely on the provisions of a non-transposed directive against a body holding a public service concession (Portgás)
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