EUROPEAN COMMISSION SHARPENS EU RESPONSE TO BLUETONGUE OUTBREAKS
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has secured approval for new European Union (EU) legislation that will force EU member states to improve their surveillance, monitoring and publicity regarding cases of bluetongue. With the disease rampaging across northwestern Europe, the EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health have agreed to make monitoring compulsory in all infected countries, while bluetongue-free member states must undertake "surveillance proportionate to the risk". National authorities will have to notify the Commission ...
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