Veterinary medicines: bovine somatotropine BST, placing on the market and administration (repeal. Decision 90/218/EEC)

PURPOSE : to prohibit the placing on the market and the administration of bovine somatotrophin (BST) in the Community from 01/01/2000. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Decision 1999/879/EC concerning the placing on the market and administration of bovine somatotrophin (BST) and repealing Decision 90/218/EEC. CONTENT : in the terms of the Council Decision, the Member States are to ensure that the placing on the market of bovine somatotrophin for the purposes of its marketing and administration thereof on their territory to dairy cows by any means whatsoever will not be authorised. Undertakings buying or producing bovine somatotrophin substances and undertakings authorized in any capacity to market such substances shall be required to keep registers detailing, in chronological order, quantities produced or acquired and those sold or used for purposes other than placing on the market, as well as the names of the persons to whom such quantities were sold or from whom they were purchased. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 01/01/2000.�