Brussels, 10/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Tuesday 9 March, the European Parliament approved the extension, until December 2011, of temporary measures which permit five member states - Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden, and the UK - to require cats, dogs and ferrets to comply with stricter rules than those that apply to pets travelling elsewhere in the EU. The transitional measures, approved as exceptions to EU rules to take account of the specific situations of these countries,...