14/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption of the second report by Maria del Pilar Ayuso Gonzalez (EPP-ED, Spain) on the proposal regulating agricultural alcohol, the EP approves the technical changes suggested by the Council (inclusion of synthetic alcohol solely for statistical information, suppression of the terms "common market organisation" to replace them by "specific measures"). It does not, however, resolve the problem of national aid (see EUROPE of 9 May, p.14). It does do away with the provisions of the proposal aimed at providing a framework for aid (German), which the Commission and some Member Sates refuse categorically (the question should be settled at Council level).