Public procurement contract: The French State Council strikes down a regime of exclusive state subsidy on the ground of a breach of the equality principle (MGSP)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CE, 26 September 2005, Mutuelle Générale des Services Publics, No. 262282 By this decision, the Conseil d'État annulled a system of exclusive subsidies for excess of power (see not. N. C., Actualités Concurrence et Régulations, AJDA, 2005). The subsidy scheme in question benefited the Mutualité Fonction Publique ("MFP") pursuant to an order of 19 September 1962 by the Minister of Labour and the Minister of Finance and Social Affairs, issued on the basis of Article R. 523-2 of the former Mutual Code. It consisted for the State, acting in its capacity as employer, in participating in the financing of social benefits for its employees and those of national public