I. – The judge shall rule within twenty days on applications submitted to him pursuant to Articles 2 and 5 of the aforementioned Order.
II. – The judge may not rule on these applications before the sixteenth day following the date on which the decision awarding the contract was sent to the economic operators who submitted an application or a tender. This period shall be reduced to the eleventh day where the contracting authority/entity provides evidence that the decision to award the contract was notified by electronic means to all the economic operators concerned.
In the case of applications submitted before the conclusion of contracts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 13 of the same Order, the judge may not rule before the eleventh day from the publication of the intention to conclude the contract.
III. – The public prosecutor acts ex officio in the case provided for by article 9 of the aforementioned ordinance.