Brussels, 08/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - With its adoption on Tuesday 7 February of the report by Janusz Wojciechowski (ECR, Poland) on new rules for vaccination of ruminants against bluetongue disease, the European Parliament agriculture committee approved the Council first reading position on the amendments to be brought to Directive 2000/75/EC on this animal disease (see EUROPE 10517).
The new rules will make it possible to use “inactivated vaccines” also outside areas where animal...