Brussels, 26/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Permanent Representatives of Member States discussed, without concluding, on Wednesday, ways of breaking the deadlock in negotiations over the EU/South Africa wine and spirits agreement to avoid provisional implementation of the global agreement being put back into question. Analysis of the latest South African proposals concerning the protection of traditional names confirmed that neither Greece nor Italy could accept them. South Africa was principally proposing - exceptionally - protecting some traditional European names (Grappa, Ouzo, Jagertee, Pacharan, etc.) by mentioning, on all bottles sold on its market and that did not come from the EU, its South Africa origin. As counterpart, the Union was to undertake not to put into question the provisional implementation of the global agreement for each difficulty met in connected agreements (like on fishing, for example). Discussions are continuing in Coreper.