Brussels, 22/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Thursday's adoption of the report by Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert (CDU) saw the European Parliament modify certain provisions in the proposal aiming to ban four antibiotics still used in animal rearing feed. This ban will apply from 1 January 2005, whereas the Commission had proposed 1 January 2006. The Parliament has also strengthened provisions on coxydiostases (antibiotics used as food additives for controlling poultry illnesses) by limiting their use up to 2008, while the Commission had only planned to make conditions for their use harder. This proposal, which aims to reinforce rules on additives in animal feed, was presented by the Commission last March (see EUROPE 26 March).