Brussels, 21/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - 'The award of a public service contract to an undertaking with partly private capital, regardless of the percentage of the holding, does not constitute an in-house operation exempted from the Community public procurement rules' according to the ruling issued on 11 January by the European Court of Justice in Case C-23/03, Stadt Halle and RPL Recyclingpark Lochau. The ruling was immediately slammed by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions...