Brussels, 12/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Heath voted on Wednesday in favour of a European Commission proposal to ban the export of live pigs and their semen, ova and embryos from the German land of Rhineland-Palatinate (apart from regions on the east bank of the Rhine) following the discovery of an outbreak of classical swine fever on 5 April. At the same time, the EU's veterinary chiefs decided to extend for a month (until 31 May) the import...