Brussels, 08/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission recently adopted its Report 2000 on the agricultural situation in the European Union, in which it stresses that the year 2002 was mainly marked by three factors: - price recovery in the pig and poultry sectors, after the fall in 1999; - soaring oil prices, which entailed a very pronounced rise in energy costs and also in the cost of fertilisers; - and the collapse of the consumer price for beef, from October, because of the discovery...