Luxembourg, 18/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Agriculture Council reached, on Monday evening, agreement on broad guidelines for the future system of compulsory labelling of beef. As was proposed by the European Commission, it will be implemented in two phases, but more rapidly. In fact:
1) As of the 1st September 2000: on the labelling should appear (a) a number or reference code showing the relations between the meat and animal or group of animals, (b) the registration number of the...