21.   Officials said Belgium, Austria and Spain would also vote against relaxing the ban.

22.   One possibility would be to relax the ban, possibly by exempting beef fat and gelatin.

23.   Responding to complaints from McGrath and elsewhere, lawmakers relaxed the ban this spring to allow land-and-shoot hunting where needed to control predators.

24.   Some nations want the ban relaxed earlier.

25.   Since then, Britain has struggled to get the ban relaxed, arguing the embargo was a wild overreaction to a minimal health risk.

26.   The Commission proposed instead to relax the ban on British exports outside the EU at the same pace as intra-EU trade.

27.   The European Commission agreed Monday to relax a ban on imports of live elephants, ivory and other elephant products from selected southern African nations.

28.   The European Commission agreed Monday to relax a ban on imports of live elephants, ivory and other elephant products from three southern African nations.

29.   The French government announced Thursday it was relaxing its ban on canned Coca-Cola products and would allow sales to resume from one of two French Coke plants.

30.   The government also said it would relax its ban on investment in the North enough to allow other firms to explore four other potential business deals with Pyongyang.