Brussels, 27/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The assumption that BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) could be transmitted to sheep was the main subject of Agriculture Council debates on the mad cow crisis, on Monday. On the basis of a memorandum, submitted by the German delegation during the previous Council, on measures to be implemented to ensure the surveillance and control of scrapie in sheep, and the opinion of the Union's Scientific Steering Committee recognising that the risk of...