Rome, 22 June 2011 – France’s Council of State today reversed the sentence passed by the administrative court in Cergy-Pontoise on 11 March of this year, annulling the tender that resulted in the award of a contract for the implementation and operation of a satellite-based toll system for heavy vehicles, weighing over 3.5 tonnes, using a part of the country’s 15,000-km road network (Eco Taxe Poids Lourds). At the end of the tender process, launched in May 2009 by France’s Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Public Housing (the MEDDTL), the contract had been awarded to Autostrade per l’Italia