06/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission formally adopted, on Tuesday, a decision instituting, until the end of the year, a special purchase system for the destruction or storage of carcasses of cows above thirty months that have passed screening tests for bovine encephalopathy spongiform (BSE). This system, aimed at re-establishing a certain balance in the market for bovine meat, was voted by qualified majority last 16 March by the management committee (see EUROPE of 19.20...