Canopy Growth Corp (WEED)

[Jake1990]

Cultivation in Germany: Court date set - March 28th

The Public Procurement Board of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, under the direction of the presiding judge Dicks at the Higher Regional Court, has set trial dates for the award of a contract for the cultivation, further processing, storage, packaging and supply of cannabis for medical purposes in four review proceedings. The events at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Cecilienallee 3, 40474 Düsseldorf, take place on

***Wednesday, 28.03.2018, from 10.15 a.m. in room BZ 5.***
The procurement senate is negotiating immediate complaints from four companies involved in the procedure to award the contract for the cultivation, processing, storage, packaging and supply of cannabis for medical purposes in a secured in-house plantation in Germany for the delivery period 2019 to 2022. The Federal Republic of Germany is represented by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices.

Cannabis, which is used in medicine especially for the treatment of pain patients, has not yet been legally cultivated in Germany. Accordingly, there is a lack of experience among German applicants. In this context, the applicant company criticises in Procedure VII-Verg 40/17 that a deadline was too short to be able to appoint a subcontractor with appropriate experience in the field, as requested. Procedure VII-Verg 42/17 disputes whether the company applying for the contract has submitted a declaration of commitment by a foreign company which meets the requirements and which proves access to its experience in cannabis cultivation.

With their appeals, the authors appeal against the respective decisions of the Federal Procurement Chamber (cf. on VII Verg 40/17 the decision of 01.08.2017, UK 1 - 69/17, on VII Verg 42/17 the decision of 09.08.2017, UK 1 - 77/17, on VII-Verg 52/17 the decision of 25.10.2017, UK 1 - 119/17 and on VII-Verg 54/17 the decision of 13.11.2017, 1 UK - 117/17). The awarding chamber had rejected the respective applications submitted in the review procedure.

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Düsseldorf, March 20, 2018

File number OLG: VII-Verg 40/17, VII-Verg 42/17, VII-Verg 52/17 and VII-Verg 54/17

http://www.olg-duesseldorf.nrw.de/behoerde/presse/Presse_aktuell/20180320_PM_Cannabis/index.php