Brussels, 13/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The President of the European Parliament, Nicole Fontaine, has expressed her first reaction to the European Commission's White Paper on food safety (see yesterday's EUROPE, pp. 6-7), stating that the EP attaches great importance to this paper and will examine it carefully.
She nonetheless expressed regret, as she stated as early as 5 October, that the Commission had postponed to 2002 the setting into place of a genuine European food safety agency,...