Stockfarming: prohibition of substances with hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists

The Commission's amended proposal incorporates Parliament's amendments seeking to: - possibly introduce a positive list, once the Commission has examined it, so as to control synthetic chemical substances administered to animals for anabolic purposes; - require companies which sell and/or distribute the raw materials used to manufacture substances with a thyrostatic action, oestrogen, androgen, gestagen and beta-agonists, to keep lists of registers detailing, in chronological order, the quantities produced or acquired and the quantities sold or used in the production of pharmaceutical or veterinary products. However, it did not accept the amendments seeking to extend the ban on beta-agonists to third countries or the amendment extending the scope of authorised application to hormones, which would have confused the proposal.�