Brussels, 12/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - As of 1 July 2007, the EU will have strict permanent legislation on the conditions in which live birds (falcons and parrots) can be imported into the EU from third countries. This decision was taken on 11 January by the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health. Provisional measures had been set in place in October 2005 at the height of the avian flu epizootic, providing for the ban on imports of live birds from third countries into the EU...