19/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The COPA President, Noel Devisch, rejected the modifications to the common market organisation for beef, proposed by the European Commission. For the organisation, which refuses that the BSE crisis be used as a pretext for a new reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, it is above all necessary that the additional budgetary means are freed at the Community level to (1) increase the short-term market management measures and (2) compensate the producers for losses...