During the plenary session of December 2002, the European Parliament examined the report of its temporary committee on foot and mouth disease and called for, together with its rapporteur (German Social Democrat Wolgang Kreissel-Dörfler), for a policy based on prevention, incorporating stronger controls, vaccination and slaughter of contaminated animals (see EUROPE 18 December p 11). We will be publishing below the complete paper and the resolution adopted on 17 December by the...