The sentence highlights the requirement for a detailed and coherent evaluation of the minimum environmental criteria in the tender documents, stating that a simple reference to Ministerial Decrees is not enough. This approach ensures that contract performance effectively complies with environmental standards, promoting greater sustainability in public procurement.

In the context of breach of legitimate expectation, resulting from the annulment of an unlawful administrative act, the Court of Cassation settles that, as legitimate expectation is an autonomous situation protected in itself and not in its connection with the public interest, the jurisdiction of the administrative judge exists only when the cause of action concerns the methods of exercising administrative power.