Breach of Contract vs. Administrative Authorization Validity

The case involved a dispute concerning a contract where one party claimed the other breached their obligation to execute work in a timely manner, leading to damages, while the defendant argued that the contract itself was invalid due to a lack of a necessary administrative authorization for the intended commercial activity. The court, however, found that while the purported lack of authorization might affect the *commercial* validity of the underlying activity, it did not automatically vitiate the *civil* contractual obligations between the parties regarding the execution of the work itself, thus partially overturning the lower court's decision that invalidated the contract entirely.