22/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Council has formally adopted its collective position on the fertilizer measure which shall combine into a single text the eighteen current directives on manure and fertilisers. A political agreement had been arranged by the "competitiveness" Council last September (see EUROPE dated 1st October). The text must be rounded off with a regulation on the maximum cadmium content authorised in fertilizers, in order to respond to the appeals of Sweden, Finland and...