Brussels, 19/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - As a logical conclusion to the political agreement taken last December by the Agriculture Ministers of the EU Member States, the Council adopted without debate last Monday the common position text on the draft regulation to ban, with effect from 1 January 2006, the last remaining antibiotics (with the notable exception of coccidiostats and histomonostats) still used as growth factors in productive livestock (see EUROPE of 17 December 2002). This text...