91.   European agriculture ministers voted last November to lift the ban, but no date was set until inspections of British slaughterhouses and processing plants were complete.

92.   Eitan, now agriculture minister, was found innocent, but the case cost him a senior portfolio in the Netanyahu Cabinet.

93.   EU agriculture ministers stopped short Monday of formally approving the import increase.

94.   EU agriculture ministers were meeting separately Monday to consider drastic measures to combat mad-cow disease, which has undermined consumer confidence in beef and badly hurt agriculture.

95.   European agriculture ministers met in Ireland on Monday to discuss the future of a beef industry badly damaged by an epidemic of mad cow disease.

96.   European Union agriculture ministers agreed Tuesday the EU should ensure protection for sensitive farm products before negotiating free-trade accords with other countries.

97.   European Union agriculture ministers are seeking a way out of the consumer scare over mad cow disease in Britain, possibly through a costly mass slaughter of British cattle.

98.   European Union agriculture ministers conceded defeat again Tuesday in their efforts to limit the distance farm animals can travel to slaughterhouses around the continent.

99.   European Union agriculture ministers met Monday to try to agree on a limit for journeys that farm animals undergo on their way to slaughterhouses.

100.   French President Jacques Chirac said the Union had to go back to the drawing board after his agriculture minister threw out plans to cut farm subsidies.