Luxembourg, 14/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The ECSC Consultative Committee deplored the European Commission, in its recent communication on the state of competition in the EU steel industry, having to treat more explicitly the issue of what elements of the ECSC Treaty should be conserved beyond 2002, the expiry date of the Treaty after 50 years of existence. For the Consultative Committee, the number of provisions that merit being saved are in particular the maintaining of strict regulations...