Strasbourg, 05/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has authorised Commissioner Lamy to submit to the General Affairs Council on Monday the new guideline indicated in yesterday's EUROPE pp.8/9, concerning the new banana regime to be negotiated with exporting third countries. The Commission will thus call on Ministers for authorisation to: a) explore the formula of quotas granted according to the method "first come, first served" and to draw the conclusions in October; b) begin...