26/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - European Parliament agriculture committee approves compromise plant health text. On Tuesday 26 April, the Parliamentary agriculture committee gave its approval (by 35 votes to 4, with 4 abstentions) to the inter-institutional compromise text on plant health (see EUROPE 11456). The goal of this text is to prevent harmful organisms, such as Xylella fastidiosa, from being brought in and to be better able to combat all such bacteria which can devastate plants....