Translation of "bovin d'engraissement à deux fins " (French → English) :

Authorisation of Bacillus toyonensis (NCIMB 14858T) as an additive in animal nutrition for use for cattle for fattening, rabbits for fattening, chickens for fattening, piglets (weaned), pigs for fattening, sows for reproduction and calves for rearing is denied.

In addition, U.S. cattle feeders who purchased and fed Canadian feeder cattle, which became category B, the younger animals we ship to the U.S. they finish them off in the U.S. and then sell them started experiencing similar price discounts and discrimination by late November and December of 2008.

- if the average - determined at 31 December of each year - of the annual percentages of bovine herds confirmed as infected with tuberculosis is not more than 1 % of all herds within the defined area during the two most recent annual supervisory periods, the interval between routine herd tests may be increased to two years and male animals for fattening within an isolated epidemiological unit may be exempted from tuberculin testing provided that they come from officially tuberculosis-free herds and that the competent authority guarantees that the males for fattening will not be used for breeding and will go direct for slaughter,

A label shall not contain any information relating to the animal from which the beef or beef products originate other than that which appears in the following list : - Member State, region of a Member State or third country of birth, the sex of the animal - method of fattening - other information in relation to feeding - Member states, regions of Member States or third countries where all, or at least 80 %, of the fattening took place - information on the slaughtering, like the Member State or region of a Member State or third country where slaughter took place, the age at slaughter and the date of slaughter or the period during which the beef was hung - information on methods of boning ...[+++] and cutting like mechanical recovery, types of meat and the content - any other information the operator or the organisation wishes to indicate and agreed by the competent authority concerned.

STATE AID/FRANCE (AID NO NN 88/90) The Commission has decided not to raise any objection under the competition rules laid down in the Treaty in respect of aid for cattle fattening granted in 1990.

The Commission has just finalized a communication which it will present to the Council and which include three proposals, namely: - the Community's estimated import requirements as regards young male bovine animals intended for fattening; - the estimated requirements as regards beef/veal intended for processing; - a Council Regulation opening a unilateral quota for high- quality meat.