Brussels, 03/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting on Tuesday (440 in favour, 60 against and 8 abstentions) the report by Carlos Costa Neves (Portuguese, EPP/ED) on the guidelines for the budgetary procedure 2002, the European Parliament placed emphasis on the need to guarantee food safety and product quality, given, notably, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis, and to stick to the EU's commitments regarding external relations. It also underlined the importance of improving the...