Brussels, 11/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - By reducing the thresholds for the direct award of public service contracts for passenger road and rail transport to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and adopting a series of amendments on contracting out, and direct award of public service contracts, Parliament has come to a compromise with the Council and, thus, managed to avoid a conciliation procedure. In plenary session on 10 May, MEPs gave second reading approval to the recommendation...