Luxembourg, 12/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a statement, the European Court of Justice rules that local authorities may directly award public procurement contracts to companies it owns if the companies' activity is principally involved with the local authority in question. It issued the ruling in a case involving the Italian local authority of Busto Arsizio, which directly awarded a contract worth nearly EUR 10 million for managing the heating of municipal buildings to a company called...