Brussels, 28/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - An EU regulation scrapping live cattle export subsidies (for slaughter) came into force on 24 December 2005. EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said the time had come to scrap the subsidies and that prospects for the beef market were healthy so there was no longer any reason to justify this farm aid (see Europe 9095). In 2005 so far, 66301 head of cattle have been exported to Lebanon for slaughter, up from 125825 for 2005. (At the same...