Brussels, 17/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Commission approved a financial package to fight transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and other animal diseases in the EU, in 2002. On one hand, the Community budget will contribute EUR 114 million to the funding of BSE and scrapie monitoring (this sum will be used for the purchase of test kits). On the other hand, the Commission has adopted funding provisions for the 2002 programmes eradicating animal diseases and...