Abstract: After 20 years, the effects of the Teckal judgment can still be found in many of the rulings of the European Court of Justice, but especially when we discuss the concept in house. The emergence of the exception in house to Community rules, which later became a true European practice embodied in in house contracts, has led to an interesting development in the field of public procurement, especially among countries that have chosen to use this new concept to improve the quality of bureaucratically annoyed public services. Controversial and disputed, this concept has been the subject of many doctrinal debates of legal systems that have faced the application of this exception in their national law. A concept little used in Romanian law, which, however, deserves due attention.

Keywords: case Teckal; exception in house; public procurement; Community jurisprudence.