Strasbourg, 18/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting, last Thursday in Strasbourg (112 votes for and 3 against), the report by Encarnacio Redondo Jimenez (EPP-ED, Spain) on the Community measures to fight against swine fever, the European Parliament (which had accepted at the beginning of the plenary session to urgently vote on this dossier) considers as the most adequate the Commission proposal aiming to continue the non-vaccination policy and use "sanitary sacrifices" in case of the emergence of the disease. The MEPs recall that at present, the use of existing marker vaccines is not a viable due to the failings seen in the discriminatory diagnostic technique. The MEPs also call for: - greater recognition of the precautionary principal; - a strengthening of human and economic resources dedicated to veterinary checks and the research into the improvement of prevention and prophylaxis techniques for sick animals. Drawing lessons from the foot and mouth outbreak, the EP calls in favour of: - the improvement of the tracing systems, checks on animal transport; - the ban on animal feed containing household waste; - the updating of the national emergency plans.