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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8405

21 February 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council
Council accepts by qualified majority extension of authorisation of antibiotic avilamycin

Brussels, 20/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Agriculture Council adopted on Thursday by qualified majority a proposal to extend by six months the authorisation to market an antibiotic, avilmycin, which is used as a growth agent in turkey feed. Germany, Austria, Finland, Denmark and Sweden opposed the text. These countries (except Sweden), adopted for the record a declaration in which they expressed the view that extending this authorisation was in breach of the political agreement of December...

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